Phillips keeps on truckin'
Ylon Schwartz has the button in Seat 3. Ivan Demidov opens for 1,225,000 and Dennis Phillips calls from the cutoff.
The flop is . Demidov checks over to Phillips, who checks behind. The turn is the . Demidov reaches for his chips and bets 1.6 million. Phillips contemplates for a few moments (wearing his signature expression, which looks like a cross between indifference and "my dog just died') before putting in a raise to 4 million straight. Demidov quickly folds and Phillips wins the pot.
Darus Suharto has the button in Seat 5. Ylon Schwartz raises to 1,300,000 and is met with a reraise from Scott Montgomery to 3,600,000. The action folds back around to Schwartz, who gives up his hand. Montgomery takes it down.
Dennis Phillips has the button in Seat 1. Everyone passes the action to Ylon Schwartz, who limps in. Montgomery checks his option in the big blind. When the flop comes , Schwartz leads out for 750,000. Montgomery comes over the top of him with a raise to 2.25 million, which Schwartz calls.
The turn card is the . Both players check to the river, which is the . Both players quickly check again. Schwartz shows for a pair of aces. Montgomery mucks.
Peter Eastgate has the button in Seat 9. He raises to 1,250,000, and Dennis Phillips puts in a reraise to 3,500,000 from the small blind. Ylon Schwartz folds the big blind and the action is back on Eastgate, who flicks in a call.
The flop is . Phillips checks, Eastgate bets 3,000,000, and Phillips raises to 7,000,000. Eastgate follows up that raise with a reraise all in, putting Phillips to a decision for nearly all his chips. Phillips elects to fold and the pot is pushed to Eastgate.
Eastgate's supporters, spearheaded by an extremely excited Jesper Hougaard, began singing a loud, yet nonsensical call-and-response chant as Eastgate raked in the pot. It went something like this:
Ivan Demidov has the button in Seat 7. After a quick fold by Ylon Schwartz, Scott Montgomery slowly reaches for chips and opens the pot to 1.25 million. Ivan Demidov calls from the button and Peter Eastgate folds, sending the action to Dennis Phillips. He looks warily to Demidov several times and thinks things over before releasing his hand.
We're heads up to a flop of . Montgomery has first action and bets 1.6 million. Demidov makes the call.
Montgomery has first action again on the turn. He is muh more deliberate on this street, taking a full sixty seconds before wordlessly betting 3 million straight. That bet drives Demidov out of the pot and increases Montgomery's stack to 24 million. Demidov has dipped below the 30-million mark, to 29.125 million.
. Demidov checks over to Phillips, who checks behind. The turn is the 
. Demidov reaches for his chips and bets 1.6 million. Phillips contemplates for a few moments (wearing his signature expression, which looks like a cross between indifference and "my dog just died') before putting in a raise to 4 million straight. Demidov quickly folds and Phillips wins the pot.
, Schwartz leads out for 750,000. Montgomery comes over the top of him with a raise to 2.25 million, which Schwartz calls.
. Both players check to the river, which is the 
. Both players quickly check again. Schwartz shows 
for a pair of aces. Montgomery mucks.
. Phillips checks, Eastgate bets 3,000,000, and Phillips raises to 7,000,000. Eastgate follows up that raise with a reraise all in, putting Phillips to a decision for nearly all his chips. Phillips elects to fold and the pot is pushed to Eastgate. 
. Montgomery has first action and bets 1.6 million. Demidov makes the call.
turn. He is muh more deliberate on this street, taking a full sixty seconds before wordlessly betting 3 million straight. That bet drives Demidov out of the pot and increases Montgomery's stack to 24 million. Demidov has dipped below the 30-million mark, to 29.125 million.
