Charles Chua opened for 2,500 in the cutoff and William Reynolds made it 5,200 from the button. Back to Chua, who reraised a number of T5,000 chips, and before we could count them Reynolds had either pushed or called all in, and the cards were on their backs.
Chua: 
Reynolds: 
Flop: 
Turn: 
Chua: "Oh nooooooo!"
River: 
The enormously relieved Chua increased his stack to 85,000. Reynolds meanwhile had no chips left and headed for the door.
If you remember back to our coverage of JP Kelly's final table in Event #3, Kelly was in contention to break Phil Ivey's record as the youngest player to win three gold bracelets. Unfortunately for Kelly, he fell in second place and the record still belongs to Ivey, his adversary in this hand.
Ivey raised to 2,700 and Kelly flat-called on the button. The flop came down 
and Ivey bet out 4,000. Kelly made the call to bring them to see the 
on the turn. Ivey didn't slow down and fired 11,000. Kelly made another call.
The river completed the board with the 
and Ivey fired out 25,000. Kelly thought for a minute or two and then moved all of his chips into the middle, totaling 80,300. Ivey asked how much the bet was for and then tanked a bit himself. He eventually tossed his hand into the muck and Kelly picked up the pot without showdown. He's now up to over 140,000 while Ivey slipped back to 302,000.
Time for your Kit-Kats, boys and girls.
Level: 10
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 200
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
275,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
225,000
85,000
|
85,000 |
|
||
|
137,000
18,000
|
18,000 |
|
||
|
|
120,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
|
115,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
||
|
90,000
31,000
|
31,000 |
|
||
|
71,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
|
70,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
|
62,000
23,000
|
23,000 |
|
58,000
42,000
|
42,000 |
|
57,000
13,000
|
13,000 |
|
||
|
53,000
28,000
|
28,000 |
|
||
|
43,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
32,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
|
||
|
23,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
Busted | |
Dominic Kay has been eliminated by Nam Le. Le opened to 2,800 from UTG and was only called by Kay in the cut-off to see a 
flop. Le checked and Kay bet around 20,000, effectively a move all-in as he only had about another 13,000 behind. Le raised the extra and Kay called all-in.
Kay: 
for a pair and open-ended straight draw.
Le: 
for an over-pair.
The 
turn and river missed Kay's outs. Le up to 90,000 now.
It's real shame that one of the famousest (not a word, but it is now) tables is tucked away right at the back of the balcony where no-one without a press pass or a TV camera is allowed to go. Because the tourists would have loved this one:
Seat 1: Nikolay Evdakov
Seat 2: Allen Cunningham
Seat 5: Bruno Fitoussi
Seat 6: Yevgeniy Timoshenko
Seat 7: Daniel Negreanu
Seat 8: Antonio Esfandiari
Perhaps because there's nobody really there to hear it apart from the other players, the banter has been a bit muted - we usually expect higher-volume stuff of Negreanu and Esfandiari, at least. Still the chips are flying around - most notably, Antonio Esfandiari has recovered from handing most of his chips over to Nikolay Evdakov earlier, and is currently the table captain on just a little under 200,000.
Nick Schulman fired out 8,000 on the river after Phil Ivey checked the 
board across to him. But Ivey quickly threw out a 32,000 raise which made Schulman look about as happy as if his opponent had managed to pick up the last piece of chocolate cheesecake at an important dinner right in front of his very eyes.
Schulman, checked, rechecked and re-rechecked his cards but they didn't change, and after a sigh he gave up his hand to Ivey, the man who is to chips as to what a black hole is to space, time and light.
We arrived just in time to see Charles Chua's whole stack heading into the middle, followed by just a very small percentage of Viktor Blom's chips.
Chua: 
Blom: 
Board: 
"Sorry, sorry," said a wincing Blom as he turned a set to eliminate the popular "Mr. Macau". "Oh, I feel bad now. So sick."
Chua seemed to have a bad feeling about today, though - if you recall he thought he'd lost with kings against sevens earlier when he hadn't - and he took his demise with good grace.
Young Mr. Blom is now our chip leader on around 350,000.
From middle position, JP Kelly raised to 3,000. Matt Stout called from the hijack seat and then action fell on Nick Schulman in the cutoff. He tossed out a three-bet to 11,500 and that won the pot. On the very next hand, more chips went Schulman's way. In fact, a lot more chips went his way.
Nicolas Levi raised to 3,000 from early position and Schulman made the call from the hijack seat. Phil Ivey called as well from the big blind and the three players took the flop of . Ivey and Levi checked to Schulman and he fired out 6,500. Ivey folded before Levi made the call.
The turn card added the 
to the board. Levi passed the option to Schulman once again. Schulman took another opportunity to bet and fired 15,000. Levi thought and then called.
The river completed the board with the 
. Levi checked and Schulman tossed out five red T5,000 chips for a bet of 25,000. Levi called and Schulman rolled over the 
for a set of fours. Levi mucked and dropped below 100,000 while Schulman improved to a nice, big stack of 255,000.
