Martin Stausholm was listed as "DID NOT REPORT" but had 34,000 in chips. That was reduced to a shadow of the stack, though, after he four-bet shoved with and got called by a player at risk for his last 21,425 with . The board ran out , and Stausholm is now short.
Jorn Walthaus was on the final table of the Hollywood Poker Open Main Event a few days ago and started Day 2 here with about 16,000 in chips. After losing half of the stack early on, he just doubled up again for 7,825 with versus . The board saw him improve on the turn, and the Dutchman is still in it to win it.
Preston Harwell seems to be among our current chip leaders with 92,000 in chips. At the same table, Zachary Kessler trash-talked Julian Thomas into committing his last chips post flop and the German did fall for it and busted.
Just before the break, an opponent folded pocket nines to the all in of one opponent for 8,900 followed by the all in of Anna Khait for slightly more than that. Khait had and could not win the flip versus after the board came .
On the same table was also Ryan Laplante, but he was eliminated by Alex Rocha.
There was about 15,000 in the middle with the flop reading and Valentino Konakchiev bet 6,800.
Heinz Kamutzki contemplated his next move for a bit, then eventually folded with the words "You could have gotten it all preflop." Konakchiev had a smirk on his face and replied "Maybe I didn't want that."
Below are further notable stacks from the Amazon Purple section.