Details of the elimination to follow, but they are down to nine players and there will be a pause while the re-draw for the unofficial final table of nine is made.
Sam Grafton is out of the Main Event, but sometimes that’s how it goes. Frankly though Grafton is too good to leave out, even if he’s no longer playing any part in the Main Event. It’s not just his ability on the table, it’s that his performance this week was nothing more than an extension of his personality away from it, one that, you may have noticed, is a little different to most others—the clothes, the hair, the glasses, the gregarious bonhomie towards fellow player, as the PokerStars Blog reports.
Fabio Sperling limped from the small blind and then folded to the all in of Davidi Kitai from one seat over. Exactly one hand later, the action folded to the Belgian and he moved all in again. Remi Castaignon asked the dealer for a count and then made the call, putting Kitai at risk for his last 650,000 chips.
Kitai:
Castaignon:
The Belgian found no love on the flop, but improved on the turn. Castaignon then hit the on the river to send the ever-so-dangerous Belgian to the rail in 10th place for €59,970.
Anton Bertilsson raised to 120,000 and Bjorn Wiesler called before Fabio Sperling three-bet to 400,000 from the button. Bertilsson and Wiesler called to check down the flop of , Bertilsson then won the pot with a bet of more than 400,000 on the turn.
Simon Mattsson opened the action and Stephen Graner called in the big blind.
On a flop of Graner check-raised a bet of 100,000 from Mattsson to 290,000.
Mattsson made the call and the turn card was the . Both players checked to see the river card come the . Graner checked and Mattson thought for a while before betting 255,000. Graner called and mucked when Mattsson showed him the winner .
Remi Castaignon raised to 120,000 from the button, Bjorn Wiesler three-bet to 290,000 in the big blind and the Frenchman moved all in for 1,450,000. A crowd immediately gathered on the rail, but they backed down as soon as Wiesler had mucked his cards.