John Eames might share his surname with a cool character from the film Inception but his dreams of winning this event have just died. Phil Laak opened to 1,700 from the hijack and Rui Cao flat-called on the button. Eames then pushed for a total of 16,025 more and Laak then pushed behind him and Cao folded.
"Do you have a pair?" inquired Eames.
"No," said Laak.
"Then I'm ahead," replied the youngster turning over as Laak flipped .
The board though had other ideas, coming and another British youngster bit the dust. The Brits have had great success over the last two weeks with EPT, WPT and World Open successes, but it does not look like they'll be taking home this bracelet.
Much to the elation of the hot-blooded males in the room, Liv Boeree has just disposed of a shorter-stacked opponent to witness her stack surge to over the 30,000 mark.
The EPT San Remo starlet opened to 1,050 from under the gun and her neighbour made the call, only for the big blind to push all in for 8,050. Boeree called from a stack of circa 21,000, which was enough for the caller to identify the rat and relinquish .
Big Slick wasn't the only big hand out there, as the big blind showed , whilst Boeree did indeed have the goods with . The flop had the escapee squirming in his seat like a frog in a blender, and even more so as the turn and river came a cowboy-less and respectively to award Boeree the pot.
Manig Loeser and John Racener got involved on the flop of . Racener checked and Loeser fired 1,150. Racener then raised to 3,500. Loeser checked on Racener's stack before sliding out a big enough stack of chips to put Racener all in. The November Niner made the call, but was behind. Racener's was dominated by the for Loeser.
The turn brought the and the river the . Racener was sent to the rail and he'll have to wait until the next one while Loeser improved to 61,000 in chips.
Vanessa Rousso has been eliminated from today's event. She came over the top of Jamie Sykes' open and was called in two spots: Nathan Lee behind, and initial raiser Sykes.
Both remaining players checked the flop, only for Nathan Lee to check-call a bet of 4,000 on the turn, before taking it down on the river with the . Sykes had the , but it just took the former to show Rousso to the door.
Yann Dion raised to 1,100 from the small blind to attack the player in the big blind. That player wasn't just anyone. It wasn't just someone either, it was Phil Ivey. Ivey defended his big blind and made the call.
The flop came down and Dion fired a continuation bet of 1,500. Maybe Ivey missed, or maybe the song on his iPod just wasn't cutting it (which he began pressing buttons to change the song), or maybe he really wanted to keep an eye on the cute masseuse girl walking along the rail (his eyes wandering with her the whole way). Whichever one it is, he opted not to continue with the hand and dropped to 24,500. Dion improved to 11,600.
There are eleven full tables left in play, and our gorilla math tells us that... yep, 66 players remain. Three of those remaining tables are up on the balcony level, and they're breaking down this way towards the lower eight (and center five) tables.
The math suggests we should end the day with somewhere around 40 players remaining at the close of Level 10. Possibly even fewer.
Chris Moorman's online record is second to none, so far he hasn't been able to hit the live game with the same success. Two years ago in an agonising pot on the bubble of the WSOPE main event, he found kings against Johnny Lodden's aces to lose a huge pot.
However, here he just won a big pot against WSOP main event finalist Michael Mizrachi. Moorman raised to 1,100 on the button and Mizrachi quickly defended from the big blind.
The flop came and Mizrachi check-called a 1,525 bet from his younger opponent. The came on the turn and again Mizrachi check-called, this time to the tune of 3,200 to see a river putting the straight on board but also completing a backdoor flush.
Now Mizrachi fired out a chunky 12,000, just over the size of the pot and an amount that was just a little less than the size of Moorman's stack. The British player, who had just won Online Player of the Year, the night before at the British Poker Awards took a couple of minutes before making the call.
"I play the board," said Mizrachi and Moorman turned over for a highly unlikely but winning straight. Moorman is up to 35,000 while Mizrachi drops to 17,500.
Eli Heath and the player to his immediate left tangled up in a big preflop raising war that left them both with all of their chips in the middle. The last raise of the series was a shove from the unknown player for his 19,350; Heath tanked and called with the covering stack just as we walked up to the table.
Showdown
Heath:
Opponent:
The board ran safe for Heath and his pair of hooks: . With handshakes all 'round, we've lost another player, and that elimination pushes Heath up around the chip lead with close to 70,000. We'll have to get a better count when he finishes stacking up.
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and another British youngster bit the dust. The Brits have had great success over the last two weeks with EPT, WPT and World Open successes, but it does not look like they'll be taking home this bracelet.
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flop had the escapee squirming in his seat like a frog in a blender, and even more so as the turn and river came a cowboy-less 
and 
respectively to award Boeree the pot.
was dominated by the 
for Loeser.
. Racener was sent to the rail and he'll have to wait until the next one while Loeser improved to 61,000 in chips.
flop, only for Nathan Lee to check-call a bet of 4,000 on the 
river with the 
, but it just took the former to show Rousso to the door.
and Dion fired a continuation bet of 1,500. Maybe Ivey missed, or maybe the song on his iPod just wasn't cutting it (which he began pressing buttons to change the song), or maybe he really wanted to keep an eye on the cute masseuse girl walking along the rail (his eyes wandering with her the whole way). Whichever one it is, he opted not to continue with the hand and dropped to 24,500. Dion improved to 11,600.
river putting the straight on board but also completing a backdoor flush.
