From middle position, Manig Loeser kicked off the action with a raise to 20,000. Thomas Ward was in the next seat and reraised all in for 238,000. Benjamin Gold was next to act behind Ward, and he reraised all in for over 600,000 from the hijack seat. Then action folded to Robert Kokoska on the button.
Kokoska slammed a stack of orange T5,000 chips into the middle, signifying that he was calling all in for his last 148,000. Play then folded around back to Loeser, he gave it up, and the three hands in the all-in clash were revealed.
Kokoska was the shortest stack, but he had the best hand with the . Gold had the second best hand with the and had both players covered. Ward was stuck in the middle with the .
The flop came down to give Gold a leading set of tens. The turn was the , and then the river completed the board with the . Gold's tens were able to come from behind, and he busted both Ward and Kokoska in the same spot en route to 1.1 million in chips.
Terrance Eischens, crippled by Brian Roberts in a recent pot, had climbed back up to 159,000, which he shoved all in from a middle position in a recent pot. Ismael Bojang called in the small blind, and it was a race:
Bojang:
Eischens:
Eischens' hand held on the run out, and he's suddenly back in contention, while Bojang is nearly felted.
We found Jon "PearlJammer" Turner all in before the flop with , dominated by the of John Gorsuch. Both made full houses on the community, but Gorsuch's was better, and Turner was sent to the payout desk.
Jean-Jacques Zeitoun raised to 20,000 from middle position and the action folded to Paul Senter who moved all in from the big blind. Zeitoun called and the showdown went as following.
Zeitoun:
Senter:
The board ran out and Senter received a full double up.
Emil Olsson checked the flop, and then Greg Himmelbrand fired 30,000. Behind him, Florian Sighe called, and then Olsson folded. On the turn, the landed, and Himmelbrand checked. Sighe bet 73,000, and Himmelbrand folded.