Daniel Steinberg threebet out of the big blind preflop (4,800), which didn't win the increments of 1,100 put in by everyone so far (David Benyamine, Melanie Weisner) but brought him and Benyamine to a flop heads-up. That flop: . After a think so long Steinberg could have gone on screensaver, he bet out 5,400. Now Benyamine counted out all of his stacks of every denomination looking at each closely before making the call.
The turn was the . Another lengthy pause (to put it in context, the table next door played three hands during this one). Check to Benyamine, who slid in his entire c.15k stack, prompting a toss in the muck of Steinberg's hand. Benyamine is winning Most Volatile Stack award today, by a clear margin.
Freddy Deeb fired out 5,000 on the board of . Jennifer Tilly was his opponent and made the call. The river then completed the board with another diamond, the . Deeb checked and Tilly checked behind.
Tilly turned over the for a flush and Deeb showed a losing .
Antonio Esfandiari has hit a super-height of 130,000, rumour has it that he managed to make a straight-flush against the nut-flush and another random hand in a big three-way pot. Full details were sketchy beyond this, but we'll try to get more details.
Martin Kabrhel raised to 800 from middle position and was flat-called by Todd Terry in the cutoff seat. Christophe Benzimra reraised all in for 8,350 total from the big blind. Kabrhel got out of the way and cut his losses at 800. Terry tanked for a bit and then made the call. It turned out to be the correct call with the as Benzimra held a dominated .
The board ran out and Terry's aces and sixes with a queen kicker were the best hand. He moved to about 50,000 in chips while Benzimra hit the rail.
Willie Tann will have to be content with just two final tables at this year's World Series of Poker Europe. Hovering around 20-25k for much of the last two levels, he did eventually find a good spot for a double through - all in with pocket Jacks vs. pocket Nines. His opponent did hit that Nine, however, to put him on the train to Closely-by-Felt, terminating at Stanton-on-Rail.
From early position, EPT Copenhagen winner Anton Wigg raised to 900. Eli Elezra made the call from the cutoff seat and the big blind also called to see a flop of .
After the big blind checked the flop, Wigg stayed aggressive and fired 1,700. Elezra raised to 7,225 after checking on Wigg's stack and that knocked the big blind out of the hand. Wigg moved all in for a tiny bit more, 7,350 total, and Elezra called.
Elezra's pair plus flush draw with the was up against the for Wigg. The turn brought the to give Wigg a flush draw of his own. The river then completed the board with the to allow Wigg to successfully double up.
We admittedly missed the vast majority of this hand, but it's worth telling you what we know.
We walked up to a turned board showing , and there was already about 34,000 chips heaped in the middle of the table. Dan Shak was heads up with Gabriel Alarie, and Alarie had a bet or raise of 11,000 laid out in front of him. It almost surely had to be a raise based on the size of the pot, but either way, Shak was deep in the tank when we walked up.
He had about 48,000 chips left in his stack, and he eventually moved all in for that amount. Alarie hemmed and hawed and cut down his own stack before folding and flashing the .
That was a big boost to Shak's stack, and he's put himself in quite good shape with just over 90,000 now.
JP Kelly, who gets more involved than Paul Scholes at his prime, fired bets of 6,200 and 16,200 on the turn and river of a board against Yevgeniy Timoshenko. The latter check-called the turn, but he meekly folded on the river, the stoic expression on his face remaining.
Chris Moorman had 3-bet Paul Zimbler's opening raise from 1,025 to 2,725 only to find William Reynolds in the big blind cold 4-betting to 6,400. Zimbler folded after a little thought but Moorman took a lot longer, and looked for a while as if he would come back over the top. This time though, he believed Reynolds and let the young American take the pot.
From under the gun, Brian Powell raised to 1,050. Eric Baldwin reraised from middle position to 2,700 and Powell called. The two have been doing some battling all day long and saw the flop come down .
Powell checked and Baldwin fired 4,200. Powell made the call to see the hit the turn. Powell checked again and Baldwin checked behind.
The river was the and after a minute, Powell fired 10,600. Baldwin tanked for some time and began commenting about how Powell has been torturing him all day long. Eventually, Baldwin gave it up and was left with 32,300. Powell increased to 90,000.