Ross is on the table overlooking the stairs and just found himself involved in a pot after opening late position to 1,800. His neighbour, Ben Cherif, three-bet to 4,700, and Ross made the call. Both players checked the flop, but Ross took it down with a bet of 7,400 on the turn. He now has 90,000.
Barny, meanwhile, is doing similarly well. The elder of the siblings started the day with 73,200, but has since edged that figure up to 78,000.
Vitaly Lunkin is up to 110,000 after cracking Paul Otto's pocket aces. All the chips went in pre-flop and very pretty looking king appeared on the flop for the Russian. Otto down to 8,000 as a result.
With the field size increasing from last year to this year, that means there will be more prize money awarded to first place. This year's prize is worth £830,401. That's £28,798 more than last year and a positive increase that the WSOP and all poker players like to see.
Take a look at the graph to see the trend of first-place prize money awarded in the WSOP Europe Main Event each year. You'll see that there was a very large prize awarded of £1,000,000 to Annette Obrestad in 2007 before dropping off each year until it was kicked back up this year. That's thanks to the high amount of participation this year has seen with 346 players taking to action here in London.
Just making it to the money this year is worth £21,106 and a total of 36 spots will be paid out. Head to the payouts page to see all the payouts and here's a look at the final table payouts.
Nikolay Evdakov has had a rather poor start to the day.
He returned to a roughly 40,000 stack an hour ago, but it was at around 17,000 when we found him just now. Michael Schwartz had raised to 1,400 under the gun and Karim Jomeen had called in the cutoff before Evdakov called too from the small blind.
We were briefly distracted at this point as Andrew Lichtenberger was going all in on the other table (more on that in a moment), but when we returned the flop read and the size of the pot suggested that Evdakov had checked and then raised all in to a bet. Whatever happened, the other two players both folded, and Evdakov made a mini-recovery to a still relatively short 20,000.
John Tabatabai made it 1,500 to go preflop, and Nicolas Levi made the call in position. From the small blind, Jolmer Meelis squeezed in a reraise to 5,200, and that was enough to get Tabatabai out of the way. Levi, however, plunked out 30,000 chips, enough to cover Meelis. He got action, and Meelis was at risk (but in fine shape) as the cards were turned up:
Levi:
Meelis:
It's never easy with aces, it seems. The flop came to give Levi the flush draw, but he bricked the turn. The river was a much better card for him, filling in that club flush and earning him the knockout.
Levi looks to be the chip leader once again with about 190,000.
Andrew Lichtenberger's last few thousand chips went into the middle in good shape, his ahead of Carlos Mortensen's . But the board came down for a chopped pot, and Lichtenberger remained woefully short on just 13,500. Mortensen stayed hovering on 110,000.
He seemed to be the only player at the table who did not find the chop particularly amusing.
Jake Cody has had a hell of a year. He was little known in the live scene before he played and won his first ever EPT in Deauville earlier this to make himself very known. If that wasn't enough for the young Brit in 2010 he went on to clinch the inaugural WPT London crown earlier this month to win two thirds of the coveted Triple Crown (EPT, WPT & WSOP/E titles).
Gavin Griffin and Roland de Wolfe are the only two to have achieved this so far but the WSOPE Main Event offered Cody a last chance to achieve the Triple Crown in one year. A fete that surely would've taken years to match, if ever.
Unfortunately for him this dream came to an end for him a short while ago. He was short and pushed all-in with pocket sixes from late position but ran into Hoi Wing Cheung's pocket queens two seats along.
I only caught the end of this hand, but I was so intrigued that I pestered James Keys into submission.
According to the horse's mouth, Keys opened for 1,500, the small blind three-bet to 4,500 and Keys made the call.
The small blind then bet 4,000 and 13,000 on the flop and turn of a board, but conceded with a check on the river.
In position, Keys decided to moved his stack across the line, basically putting his shorter-stacked opponent all in for around 30,000. Despite his suspicions, the small blind released his hand.
After some poking from curious neighbours, Keys revealed for the flopped two pair turned into a bluff, later to emerge as the rarely sighted bluff value bet.
"I didn't have that beat," commented the small blind, later adding that he had . The table didn't seem convinced by the claim.
Jennifer Tilly raised the button preflop, and big blind Shawn Buchanan matched the bet to see a flop.
It was , and Buchanan check-called a bet of 2,000. He did the same for 3,500 on the turn, and the on the river saw him check one last time. Tilly fired 5,000 at the pot, and Buchanan eventually made the call.
"Queen-high," Tilly said softly, not wanting to show it down. Buchanan flashed the , and she mucked, and the dealer pushed the pot to Buchanan. Tilly asked to see the winning hand, and the dealer flipped up Buchanan's , his two pair plenty good enough to take it down. He moves up over 50,000, while Tilly slides back under the 100,000-chip mark.
Dan O'Brien was just eliminated, he lost the classic 57-43 with to Sean Jazayeri's on a board.
We've also lost Jeff Lisandro who had his cracked by Hoyt Corkins' . On the same table Neil Channing called James Mitchell's 3-bet with and pushed on a board only to snapped off by the chip leader's .
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flop, but Ross took it down with a bet of 7,400 on the 
turn. He now has 90,000.
and the size of the pot suggested that Evdakov had checked and then raised all in to a bet. Whatever happened, the other two players both folded, and Evdakov made a mini-recovery to a still relatively short 20,000.
to give Levi the flush draw, but he bricked the 
turn. The 
river was a much better card for him, filling in that club flush and earning him the knockout.
ahead of Carlos Mortensen's 
. But the board came down 
for the flopped two pair turned into a bluff, later to emerge as the rarely sighted bluff value bet.
. The table didn't seem convinced by the claim.
, and Buchanan check-called a bet of 2,000. He did the same for 3,500 on the 
turn, and the 
on the river saw him check one last time. Tilly fired 5,000 at the pot, and Buchanan eventually made the call.
, his two pair plenty good enough to take it down. He moves up over 50,000, while Tilly slides back under the 100,000-chip mark.
to Sean Jazayeri's 
board only to snapped off by the chip leader's 