Raul Paez raised from the button and Ian Frazer defended in the big blind. On the flop, Frazer check-raised and all the chips flew in, Frazer in need of assistance with versus .
The turn may have been a blank, but the river wasn't, sending Paez into a furied frenzy as he stamped his feet and muttered profanities under his breath.
The bottom line is, though, that Paez is out, and his sniper is up to the half century mark.
David Docherty raised to 2,200, only for the highly excitable Ganesh Bathmanathan on the button to enquire, "How much you got behind, boss?" The answer was around 15,000. "I'm all in."
Back to Docherty, who tanked up. There followed a probably rather off-putting monologue from Bathmanathan.
"You wanna call me? You seen what hands I've had. You wanna stay in, make the money at least, you been here from yesterday. I'll show if you fold."
Docherty remained in his tank for a long time, before eventually folding. Bathmanathan showed him . "I'm not here to mess you about, man," Bathmanathan assured. "I want you to make the money, get your little something, go about your business." Docherty said not a word.
There was just now a brief pause while the TDs conducted a head count. Results of that head count concluded that we have 65 runners remaining at this time, and as soon as we have lost one more player we will be going hand-for-hand to the bubble.
Further misery for Ben Vinson as David Rowan raised the hijack and Vinson re-popped him from the small blind -- only for Rowan to push, covering Vinson. After a few moments' thought, Vinson folded.
Over in the little side room, less cramped today owing to only containing two tables rather than the usual three, David Stucke tried it on with a fairly serious late-position raise. He gave it up to a huge raise from chip monster JP Kelly, and we continue hand-for-hand.
In traditional big-stack-on-the-bubble style, JP Kelly has been getting a bit jiggy. He seems to have raised preflop from the button and been called by Azzy Azghar in the small blind. Azghar bet out on the flop and Kelly called; when Azghar bet 6,000 on the turn, Kelly enquired, "How much do you have left?" The answer was around 16,000, an Kelly flat-called.
Both players checked the river, and Azghar took it down with while Kelly just mucked.