While the Main Event will be on hiatus for a few months once the November Nine is reached in Tuesday (or much more likely during the early morning hours of Wednesday), the World Series of Poker will not stop. Between October 7-15, 2011, the WSOP will cross the pond to Cannes, France for the 2011 WSOP-Europe.
Given the tight Player-of-the-Year Race between Ben Lamb and Phil Hellmuth, we expect both will be making the trip and looking to clinch the coveted title. Here is a look at the WSOP-E schedule.
Sebastian Ruthenberg opened for 63,000 from under the gun, then it folded to Jacob Bazeley who reraised to 150,000 from late position. Everyone else got out the pair's way, and when the action got back to Ruthenberg he reshoved all in. Bazeley quickly called, committing 930,000 total.
Ruthenberg had but was behind Bazeley's . The board ran out , and Bazeley pushes up to 1.94 million. Ruthenberg now has 2.995 million.
Alexander Dietrich has just over 300,000 chips left when he got them all into the middle with . He seemed content to race against Aleksandr Mozhnyakov's for double or nothing, but it would ultimately be nothing.
The board came , and the king on the flop is all she wrote for Dietrich. He's been sent off to the payout clerk, while Mozhnyakov climbs his way up to 3.7 million or so.
Action folded to Brian Yoon in the hijack and he raised to 63,000. A short-stacked Jamie Shaevel was next to act in the cutoff and simply moved all in for 120,000. The rest of the field cleared out and Yoon made the call.
Showdown
Yoon:
Shaevel:
The flop was disaster for Shaevel as Yoon hit a set; however, the turn did give him an open-ended straight draw. Wouldn't you know it, the river completed that draw and allowed Shaevel to double, though he is still extremely short.
Bryan Follain opened with a button raise, then Jens Kyllonen made it 129,000 more from the small blind. The big blind got out, Follain reraised all in, and Kyllonen called with his remaining chips.
Kyllonen:
Follain:
The board came , and Kyllonen is out. Follain, meanwhile, is now stacking a nifty 4.89 million.
Joesph Cheong makes his exit from the 2011 WSOP Main Event.
Joseph Cheong's hope of making it back-to-back November Nine appearances has come to an abrupt end at the hands of Phil Collins.
The action folded around to Collins who raised to 75,000 from the cutoff before Cheong re-raised out of the small blind, making it 200,000 to go. Collins snap-shoved and Cheong called, tabling but found himself crushed by Collins' !
Despite pairing up on the flop of , the turn and river ran out , and Cheong was eliminated. There's no stopping Collins now - he's dominating this field with more than 8.6 million in chips!
We have just finished the first break of the Main Event here in Day 6 and there are still a few Team PokerStars Pros going strong. Sebastian Ruthenberg is leading the Team Pros with 3,865,000 in chips.
We caught action in the middle of a big hand when Ruthenberg increased his stack by 620,000 in chips. With 250,000 already in the pot and the board showing Peter Gelencser bet 177,000 and Ruthenberg called. The river brought the and Gelencser bet 311,000. Ruthenberg raised to over a million chips and Gelencser folded his cards into the muck.
Other Team Pros in the field are JP Kelly with 2,710,000 in chips and Tony Hachem with 1,800,000. There is also one PokerStars Team Online Pro left in the field, Andrew Brokos with 1,240,000. Alongside these Team Pros still in the field are PokerStars Qualifiers who include Per Linde with 2,890,000, Julian Stuer with 1,215,000 and Philipp Gruissem with 545,000 in chips.
You can continue to follow all the action here on PokerNews and follow your favorite PokerStars Team Pros on the PokerStars Blog here.
Just before the last break, Bryan Colin got all in preflop for 465,000 and was up against Nicolas Fierro.
Showdown
Fierro:
Colin:
Colin was dominated by Fierro's cowboys and desperately needed a third eight. Unfortunately for him, the board ran out and his Main Event run came to an end.
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but was behind Bazeley's 
. The board ran out 
, and Bazeley pushes up to 1.94 million. Ruthenberg now has 2.995 million.
. He seemed content to race against Aleksandr Mozhnyakov's 
for double or nothing, but it would ultimately be nothing.
, and the king on the flop is all she wrote for Dietrich. He's been sent off to the payout clerk, while Mozhnyakov climbs his way up to 3.7 million or so.
flop was disaster for Shaevel as Yoon hit a set; however, the 
river completed that draw and allowed Shaevel to double, though he is still extremely short.
, and Kyllonen is out. Follain, meanwhile, is now stacking a nifty 4.89 million.
but found himself crushed by Collins' 
, the turn and river ran out 
Peter Gelencser bet 177,000 and Ruthenberg called. The river brought the 
