Level: 10
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
Level: 10
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
The flop read and the small blind fired out a bet of 4,800 into Andreas Heissenberger in late position. Heissenberger made the call and added to the already large pot. We don't know how the action went preflop, but there was at least one raise and call, due to the size of the pot.
The on the turn slowed down the small blind, but seemingly awoke Heissenberger who bet out 7,000. The small blind made the call and both players were granted access to the river.
After the fell on the river the small blind again checked. Heissenberger opted to move all in, a bet that would essentially put the short stacked small blind all in. After a few quick seconds the small blind made the call.
Heissenberger:
Small Blind:
The small blind had two pair aces and fives, but that was only second best to Heissenberger's three of a kind fives. With that hand Heissenberger moves into the top 10 in chips.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Justin Schwartz |
78,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
Andreas Heissenberger | 70,000 | |
Paul Magriel |
65,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
Sofia Lovgren |
45,000
21,000
|
21,000 |
Chris Moorman |
45,000
-3,000
|
-3,000 |
|
||
Dutch Boyd |
43,800
-4,200
|
-4,200 |
|
||
Matt Stout |
32,000
22,000
|
22,000 |
Alex Kravchenko |
25,000
-600
|
-600 |
Allen Kessler |
14,000
6,200
|
6,200 |
|
||
Huck Seed |
12,000
2,300
|
2,300 |
|
||
Darryl Fish
|
9,000
500
|
500 |
We don't exactly know how the action went, but the board read and Allen Kessler was being pushed a pot for his double up. Kessler had for a pair of jacks which was seemingly good enough, as his opponent had subsequently mucked.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Allen Kessler |
20,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
|
There are 387 players left, and the time it takes to finish a soccer match, before this bad boy is over for the night. We have just trawled through the Golden section and this is what we saw.
We saw Gionni Demers apply maximum pressure to take down a decent sized pot without the need to play any post flop poker. The player on the button raised to 1,600, Demers three-bet to 4,400 from the small blind, the big blind four-bet to 11,300, the button folded and Demers moved all-in. The big blind fiddled, and thought for a few minutes, in absolute anguish, before eventually releasing his hand.
Alexander Dovzhenko has just lost a blind squabble that has left him perilously low. The action folded around to the player in the small blind who moved all-in holding and Dovzhenko called in the big blind holding . The board ran out and Dovzhenko was down to just 8,000 chips.
Alexander Dovzhenko is a true live tournament grinder with over $1.5 million in earnings going back over an eleven year stretch.
Finally, we saw former Irish Open champion, James Mitchell, lose a substantial portion of his chips to Frank Piocos and this is how. There was a raise from early position and a call from Piocos on the button. Mitchell was seated in the big blind and he squeezed for a total of 4,800, the initial raiser folded but the button made the call.
Flop:
The flop looked perfect for both because Mitchell was holding and Piocos was holding . The turn and river changed nothing and Mitchell was down to 11,000.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Matt Livingstone
|
69,000 | |
Michael Craig |
55,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
Gionni Demers |
50,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |
Yann Brosolo |
48,000
-7,000
|
-7,000 |
Sofia Lovgren |
47,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
Jia Liu |
40,000
-20,000
|
-20,000 |
Matt Stout |
35,400
3,400
|
3,400 |
Gianluca Rullo |
30,000
-30,000
|
-30,000 |
Chris Arvanitis |
25,000
-19,000
|
-19,000 |
Kevin Vandersmissen |
19,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
Sam Holden |
16,000
6,500
|
6,500 |
Tom McCormick |
14,500
6,100
|
6,100 |
James Keys |
14,300
-13,700
|
-13,700 |
Darryl Fish
|
11,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
James Mitchell |
11,000
-4,000
|
-4,000 |
Alexander Dovzhenko |
8,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
Pierre Neuville | Busted |
Level: 11
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
As we trundle into the final level of the day we are probably going to burst the money bubble. There are 336 players left and forty-five minutes to lose twelve players.
The biggest stacks in the room include Jonas Mackoff (132k), Nick Abou Risk, (116,000), Andreas Heisenberger (100k) and Clayton Fletcher (97k).
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jonas Mackoff |
132,000
52,000
|
52,000 |
Nick Abou Risk |
116,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Andreas Heissenberger |
100,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Clayton Fletcher | 97,000 | |
Owen Crowe |
89,000
44,500
|
44,500 |
Will Jaffe |
81,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
|
||
Andrew Dean |
80,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Chris Moorman |
74,000
29,000
|
29,000 |
|
||
Justin Schwartz |
70,000
-8,000
|
-8,000 |
Joao Simao
|
66,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
Mark Herm |
61,000
-19,000
|
-19,000 |
David Singontiko |
39,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
|
||
Alex Kravchenko |
35,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
Martin Finger |
29,000
15,200
|
15,200 |
|
||
John Eames |
28,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
Joey Weissman |
27,000
-11,000
|
-11,000 |
|
||
Mihai Manole |
26,000
-1,000
|
-1,000 |
Shannon Shorr |
25,000
-11,000
|
-11,000 |
|
||
Pratyish Buddiga
|
23,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
Paul Magriel |
6,000
-59,000
|
-59,000 |
Todd Terry | Busted |
We don't know exactly how the betting went, but we know Alex Kravchenko and an unknown opponent got into a raising battle preflop that ended with Kravchenko's opponent all in and at risk.
Kravchenko:
Opponent:
The board came and with that Kravchenko was best, and the tournament had its bubbleboy.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Alex Kravchenko |
85,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Two hands involving two-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) champion Dutch Boyd.
In the first hand we caught him calling a short stack shove holding . His opponent held and after the board ran out Boyd had eliminated his opponent.
Then he raised to 2,500 in the cutoff, Jeff Fielder called on the button as did the big blind. The flop was , the big blind checked, Boyd bet 3,500, Fielder called and the big blind folded. The turn brought some mutual respect after both players checked and finally we saw the . Boyd made a bet of 7,000 and Fielder made a very quick call before turning over and Boyd slid his hand into the muck.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jeff Fielder | 106,000 | |
Dutch Boyd |
47,000
3,200
|
3,200 |
|
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jonas Mackoff |
148,500
16,500
|
16,500 |
Clayton Fletcher |
148,500
51,500
|
51,500 |
Alex Kravchenko |
128,400
43,400
|
43,400 |
Jeff Fielder |
111,200
5,200
|
5,200 |
David Bernstein | 103,600 | |
Nick Abou Risk |
84,300
-31,700
|
-31,700 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Clayton Fletcher | 148,500 | |
Jonas Mackoff | 148,500 | |
Andrew Dean |
139,800
59,800
|
59,800 |
Alex Kravchenko | 128,400 | |
Jeffrey Fielder
|
111,200 | |
Maurice Hawkins | 107,800 | |
David Bernstein | 103,600 | |
Perati Muhamet
|
103,100 | |
Chris Moorman |
97,400
23,400
|
23,400 |
|
||
Mikhail Aleksandrov | 96,100 | |
Andreas Heissenberger |
95,300
-4,700
|
-4,700 |
Joseph Kuether | 94,600 | |
Will Jaffe |
93,800
12,800
|
12,800 |
|
||
Benjamin Volpe | 92,100 | |
|
||
Joshua Ladines | 89,600 | |
Ken Fishman | 85,400 | |
Uri Reichenstein | 84,400 | |
Nick Abou Risk | 84,300 | |
Jean-Philippe Rohr | 84,300 | |
Brad Libson | 84,200 | |
Chae Kim | 83,400 | |
Matthew Livingston | 79,900 | |
Bryan Paris | 78,500 | |
Joey Weissman |
78,000
51,000
|
51,000 |
|
||
Owen Crowe |
77,000
-12,000
|
-12,000 |