The aces made another guest appearance as Shaun Needham got his stack in preflop holding the , called by . It looks like he's topped six figures and seems pretty happy about it.
Those still struggling with short stacks include the tenacious Jeff Buffenbarger, who accepts defeat and victory with the same almost giggly enthusiasm. His table is still dominated by the stack of Dominic Kay, whom he teased for choice of card protector: "How can he raise so much and have a plastic bottle cap as a card protector?"
Italian Marcello Marigliano has survived an all-in and is now on 77,000, pushing from the big blind after Jon Turner's 6.5k raise had been called by John Tabatabai and Jamie Gold. All three players quickly folded.
Oyvind Riisem: "I got lucky."
Just when everyone's thoughts were turning gently to the buffet, a HUGE hand went down between Oyvind Riisem and Theo Jorgensen, big stackers both of them. Jorgensen raised on the cutoff to 7,500 and found Riisem reraising from the small blind. He made it 21,200 and after a pause, Jorgensen called.
Flop: Riisem checked, and Jorgensen bet 30k. Riisem then moved all in -- that's for a tidy stack of nearly 180,000...and he was insta-called by Jorgensen. The rest of the table fell quiet as...
Riisem showed: .
Jorgensen showed: .
Turn: "Ooooh," went the table.
River:
"Unf***believable," sighed Jorgensen as he paid off Oyvind Riisem to the tune of most of his stack, creating a new vier for the chip lead. "Holy moly," said a less potty-mouthed Annie Duke (who like at least half of the spectators muttered "split pot" on the river before looking closely at Riisem's hand).
, called by 
. It looks like he's topped six figures and seems pretty happy about it.
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"Ooooh," went the table.
