We came up and saw that Simon Cremniter was not in his seat. The reason for that was a bad beat that could very well made him steam and take a walk. He had made a big raise after quite some action by Philippe Bourgoin. Cremniter's opponent took some time before moving all in. Cremniter called and Bourgoin showed his . The table described Cremniter as slowly showing what was .
Cremniter got up from his chair and left the area as he saw the board run out . He was not out but the pot was very sizable. We did see him return about five minutes later but he will have to grind his stack to what it was as he went down to 6,000 after that hand.
Toni Judet just busted Sam Holden with pre flop all in against . Judet's hand hold on | | and Holden, who went deep in back to back WSOP main Events, busted.
We saw a ton of T25 green chips sitting in the pot of a board of . Jonathan Aguiar had put his last 50 in the middle. His opponent called.
Aguiar showed and his opponent showed . With one card to come Aquiar was in good shape. The river was the . Aguiar doubled up to 2,250 but all but 1,000 is in green chips.
For the first time today, there's an indication on how many players are left in the field. 2,247 started, 980 remain at this moment, according to the clock. That makes for an average stack of 10,318.
According to former neighbor Garry Gates, Peter Jetten just busted with versus . Jetten three-bet called of his 4,500 stack and didn't improve. He picked up a spade flush draw on the turn but it didn't materialize on the river. Gates himself plays about 10,000.
The player op the button opened to 450 and the small blind made it 1,050. Garry Gates in the big blind made it 2,150 to go with . The player on the button folded but the small blind had other plans. He pushed all in for 10,000 and Gates made an easy call. Gates was up against and all though the small blind made a straight on the river, Gates rivered a flush to double up to 20,000.