Mads Andersen of Copenhagen, Denmark, who is a recognizable name on the European circuit, was all in preflop with 
and was in bad shape against the 
of Tony Lay.
We'd like to say that Andersen got a good sweat out of it, but that wasn't the case as the board ran out a lackluster 
. Both Andersen and Lay rose and walked around the table to shake hands, and then the former headed to the payout desk.
We've just seen pocket aces cracked again by 
, in this case allowing Ronny Schenk to survive.
Schenk was all in with his super short stack with 
against Frank Calo's 
, but when the board came 
, Schenk had a flush and new life.
Vincent Maglio was all in and at risk preflop holding 
. Unfortunately for him, Eric Pratt held two black aces, and the board ran out 
.
Matthew Ezrol was all in preflop with the against Amnon Filippi's . The flop, turn and river ran out 
and Filippi won the pot to eliminate Ezrol.
Action folded to Omar Saeed in the hijack, and he raised to 35,000. William Katona called from the cutoff, and it was on JP Kelly on the button. He moved all in for 372,000, and the blinds released, putting the action back on Saeed. He made the call, and Katona quickly folded his hand.
Kelly:
Saeed:
Kelly would need an eight to stay alive, but the board brought no help, coming 
. Saeed bumps his stack up to 1.07 million, while JP Kelly was sent to the rail.
This is Kelly's seconds straight deep run in the main event. He finished 26th in last year's main event for a shade over $300,000, and he will take home almost $50,000 for his efforts this year.
"All in and a call Table 385," we heard a dealer shout right in front of us. We got up to see Svyatoslav Belyaev all in for around 235,000 and up against Charles Clark, who barely had him covered.
Showdown
| Belyaev | |
| Clark | |
It was a coinflip with essentially both playing for their tournament lives. The 
flop favored Belyaev, who kept the lead with tens. Surprisingly, neither player so much as flinched when the spiked on the river to give Clark the lead. The 
river filled out the board and Belyaev shook hands with his opponent before taking his leave.
We caught up with action on a board reading , where Jan Heitmann was heads-up against Scott Abrams.
Heitmann already had a 160,000 bet in front of him from the small blind and Abrams raised enough from the hijack seat to put Heitmann all in. This sent Heitmann deep into the tank as the ESPN camera crew crowded around the table to sweat his decision.
"I'm nearing a conclusion," Heitmann said after about two minutes had passed. "I'm either crushed or I crush you...it's one of those."
Another couple of minutes passed as Heitmann tanked and one of his tablemantes decided to call the clock. As per protocol, a floorman came over and gave Heitmann just over a minute to act on his hand or else it would be dead.
Heitmann continued to tank until the floorman reached zero in his ten-second countdown, which meant Heitmann's hand was dead. The ESPN crew then went to record Heitmann's hole cards for later footage, however, the dealer mistakenly turned over Heitmann's hand - pocket kings.
Abrams said he felt that that wasn't fair and told Heitmann he would give him a courtesy show. Abrams then revealed pocket sevens for a set and mucked.
"Thank you," Heitmann said. "I wanted to go rabbit hunting on the turn."
Heitmann is down to his last 400,000 following the hand, while Abrams is up to 1.35 million.
David "ODB" Baker raised to 36,000 from under the gun, and it folded over to Jonathan Schoder on the button who reraised to 84,000. It then folded to Brian Meinders in the big blind who pushed all in for about 200,000. Baker stepped aside, but Schoder was there with the quick call.
Schoder showed , while Meinders appeared destined to double with . But the community cards brought a bunch of spades — coming — giving Schoder a flush and sending Meinders out.
Soon after serving a double knockout at his table, we found Erik Cajelais ship a massive amount of chips to the other side of the table.
An early position player raised to 32,000 only to have Cajelais three-bet to 75,000 from the seat next door. It folded around to Mazin Khoury in the big blind who tanked for about a minute before making it 200,000 total. The original raiser got out of the way and Cajelais five-bet all in. Khoury snap called and Cajelais found that he was way behind.
Cajelais:
Khoury:
The flop was which was no help to Cajelais. He picked up additional outs when the came on the turn, hoping to either hit a queen or a jack to take down the pot. Unfortunately for Cajelais, the river was the and Khoury's aces were able to hold.
Even though Cajelais' stack took this massive hit, he's still sitting more than healthy with 2,350,000 in chips.
Khoury, on the other hand, is thrilled to have reached the 2,000,000 mark.
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