Sorel Mizzi has turned up fashionably late and taken his seat on Table 17. he has wasted no time in splashing around and has just tangled with Alexandrer Kostritsyn.
Joining the action after a raising war had developed between Mizzi (CO) and Kostritsyn (BB) that saw the latter make it 1,300 to play. Mizzi paused then min-raised to 2,700, forcing a fold from his opponent.
Table 17 is another one the internet kids would describe as sick. Along with the aforementioned players seated there it also has Jennifer Harman-Traniello, David Sands, Keven Stammen and Ben Lamb!
The action folds to Marvin Rettenmaier in the cutoff and he makes it 150 to play. The action folds to Jose De La Guardia in the big blind and he three-bets to 525, a bet that Rettenmaier calls.
Flop: - De La Guardia leads out with a bet of 700 and his German opponent calls.
Turn: - De La Guardia does not slow down and he bets again, this time 1,525. Rettenmaier thinks for around 20 seconds before flicking in enough chips to make the call.
River: - De La Guardia quickly checks and Rettenmaier checks behind.
"Wow!" exclaims Rettenmaier as his opponent turns over , before checking his cards and tossing them into the muck.
Dominik Nitsche just spoke to us on the rail after busting out at the hands of Vanessa Selbst.
The birthday boy recalled how Selbst opened on the button, Kamal Sefrioui flat-called in the small blind. Nitsche, sat in the big blind, squeezed to 425 only to see Selbst make it 1,050 to play. Sefrioui got out of the way but Nitsche put in another raise, this one to 2,300. Selbst then moved all in and Nitsche called.
Selbst
Nitsche
Selbst spiked a king on the flop and Nitsche could not find one of his two outs and the young German has been eliminated.
Kevin MacPhee is out as well. We overheard him tell his exit hand to Dominik Nitsche.
Brian Powell opened to 150 and and picked up three callers (including MacPhee in the SB) en route to a flop. The action checked around to Hans Winzeler on the button and he bet 400. MacPhee called, as did one other.
The turn came MacPhee led out for 1,175. Only Winzeler called to the river where he snapped off MacPhee's over-jam for about 5,800. The American tabled for the nut flush, but his opponent tabled an unbeatable pair of red eights for quads.
John Eames started today with hopes of winning his first bracelet as he was down to the final table of Event #2, the €1,090 No-Limit Hold'em. It didn't work out for him though as he busted in 7th for €22,449. Not one to get down on himself, he registered for this event, and is off to a winning start.
He raised to 125 from the cut-off and Winfred Yu defended his big blind to see a flop. Eames continued for 150 and Wu check-called. The turn came and Eames bet 350 but this time he was check-raised up to 1,450. He thought for a moment and called. The river fell and Wu checked to the Brit who bet 2,250.
Wu called but mucked upon seeing Eames' for a full-house.
Today marks Dominik Nitsche's 21st birthday and what a present he has been given from the Poker Gods, they have sandwiched him between Erik Seidel and Vanessa Selbst! So far he seems to have managed to stay away from the two poker Goliath's but Seidel and Selbst have clashed a couple of times during the first level.
On a board reading Seidel bet 1,200 and Selbst, on the button, moved all in for an extra 1,850 more. Seidel paused and made the call before turning over much to Selbst's dismay as she held the red version of Seidel's hand, . The river was inconsequential and the players chopped the pot.
Shortly afterwards Selbst raised and Seidel was her only caller. The flop came down , Seidel checked, Selbst continued and then showed for the nuts when Seidel folded.
It didn't take long for our first player to fall and unfortunate honour falls upon Massimo Martinez.
He saw a flop with Andrew Robl before all the chips went flying in. Martinez had a strong holding with but Robl had him crushed with for a set. The board ran out and he was confirmed out after the stacks were counted down.
Today's event has attracted some of the biggest names in the business so it was inevitable that some of the tables would become heavily stacked.
Over on Table 27 we have Max Silver, Alex Wice, Barry Greenstein, Hugo Lemaire and Will Failla, whilst Table 16 is the home to Martin Jacobson, Matt Frankland, Govert Metaal and WSOP Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel.
Table 21 is home for Jack Ellwood, WPT Grand Prix de Paris Champion Matt Waxman, Andrew Robl, Nick Binger and Ryan D'Angelo and at the far end of the room we have Dominik Nitsche, Vanessa Selbst and Erik Seidel.
- De La Guardia leads out with a bet of 700 and his German opponent calls.
- De La Guardia does not slow down and he bets again, this time 1,525. Rettenmaier thinks for around 20 seconds before flicking in enough chips to make the call.
- De La Guardia quickly checks and Rettenmaier checks behind.
, before checking his cards and tossing them into the muck.
flop. The action checked around to Hans Winzeler on the button and he bet 400. MacPhee called, as did one other.
MacPhee led out for 1,175. Only Winzeler called to the 
river where he snapped off MacPhee's over-jam for about 5,800. The American tabled 
for the nut flush, but his opponent tabled an unbeatable pair of red eights for quads.
flop. Eames continued for 150 and Wu check-called. The turn came 
and Eames bet 350 but this time he was check-raised up to 1,450. He thought for a moment and called. The river fell 
and Wu checked to the Brit who bet 2,250.
for a full-house.
Seidel bet 1,200 and Selbst, on the button, moved all in for an extra 1,850 more. Seidel paused and made the call before turning over 
much to Selbst's dismay as she held the red version of Seidel's hand, 
. The river was inconsequential and the players chopped the pot.
, Seidel checked, Selbst continued and then showed 
for the nuts when Seidel folded.
for a set. The board ran out