Estonian Imre Leibold has just doubled up to 110,000 after winning a big flip with against for his tournament life when the board came for a substantial boost to his stack.
Vincent Jacques looks to be our new chip leader with over 300,000 after he eliminated Jerome Bradpiece and won a decent side pot at the same time. There was an initial raise and Bradpiece had moved all in for about 35,000 behind. Jacques called from the big blind and the initial raiser called as well to see a flop where the OR bet 44,000, Jacques check-raised all in and his opponent tank-folded after some serious consideration.
Jacques flipped to Bradpiece's and the board bricked out for the Englishman as the French-Canadian, who finished second to Praz Bansi in a $1,500 event last year, jumps into the chip lead.
Coincidentally, Bansi himself has just been knocked out.
After a raise and an all in, Imre Leibold flat-called the 30,000 shove only to have the player behind him repush all in and then the initial raiser moved all in as well.
Leibold tanked and folded what he said was queens, only to be shown by the original raiser who covered, for the short stack and for the other even shorter stack.
The board came and (of course) the worst hand almost quadrupled up while the unfortunate player with aces was eliminated.
We came into a hand on the flop where Vitaly Lunkin checked on a board of and a middle position player bet 9,800. Lunkin called and the two saw the turn. Again, Lunkin checked and the player bet out 14,700. Lunkin went into the tank for a little bit before finally calling.
The river came and Lunkin checked one last time. Again, the player bet out, this time for 25,500. Lunkin tanked for quite a while this time before finally sending his cards to the muck. Lunkin has lost about half of his stack from his high point and he's below 70,000 now
Terrence Chan just pulled out a pretty impressive resuck on the river with against when the board came for trips on the river. Chan even felt bad enough that he went all the way around the table to shake his victim's hand.
Shane Schleger and another player at his table got it all in preflop for virtually identical stacks. Schleger showed and his opponent showed . The player started calling for payouts and getting up from the table, assuming he was covered and wouldn't hit. He was right about not hitting as the board came down , but he had about 3,000 left after they counted it all out.
Either way, Schleger moves up to about 115,000 and is well above average