We caught the action on the flop as Vanessa Selbst was battling it out with Athanasios Polychronopoulos. On the table the two had to work with, and Selbst checked from the big blind to Polychronopoulos in the cutoff. Polychronopoulos made it 10,000 to go and called as Selbst raised it up to 32,000.
The turn braught the and Selbst bet out 38,000 this time. Again Polychronopoulos made the call. The river was the and Selbst pushed all in for, what looked like, about 110,000. Polychronopoulos made the instant call and showed his for a full house. Selbst flashed her cards, a red and , and left the tournament area.
Matt Jarvis leaned back and told us the action, as we were right in time to write down the board but to late for the details on all the bets and raises.
The cutoff had opened to 7,000 according to Jarvis. Barry Greenstein, in the big blind, had made the call. on the flop and Barry had checked to his opponent. The cutoff made a 13,500 continuation-bet and Greenstein had raised it up to 32,000. The all in push followed and so did Greenstein with the call.
Greenstein showed a set of deuces with and was the big favorite against the cutoff's . The on the turn gave him some outs to a straight but he wouldn't hit. Instead he made top-two on the river with the which did him no good.
Greenstein had his opponent covered and thus we're down a player while Greenstein is up to 239,000.
We missed the precise preflop action but Fabrice Soulier was already short, and got his last chips in with . He was up against David "Bakes" Baker's and proved no match: | | . The Frenchman is out, while "Bakes" is gaining momentum.
Jason Potter raised it up to 2,600 preflop. A player in late position called. Matt Jarvis re-raised it to 8,200 from the big blind. Potter made it 16,200 to go and the late position player got out of the way and it was up to Jarvis. He wanted to play for it all and pushed all in. Potter called and the two took to the board to determine a winner.
Jarvis:
Potter :
The board read | | and with that Jarvis hit his pair of fives to knock out his opponent. Matt Jarvis is playing about 184,000 now.