Just before the break, Robert Black was standing at the payout desk. Checking at his previous table, it was Louis Salter with a massive stack over in the one seat. Salter apparently had flopped trips with on and the crazy move of Black with for absolute air backfired big time.
Black was already drawing dead and there was nothing he could do anymore but think of what had just happened with the bluff gone horribly wrong.
In the last hand before the break, in fact it lasted five minutes into it, a huge pot played out between Mark Malecha and Michael Seymour. Seymour had raised to 12,000 and Malecha three-bet pretty big to 48,000 in the small blind. Seymour just flat-called and they headed to the flop .
Malecha checked, Seymour bet 48,000 and then faced a check-raise to 150,000. Seymour moved all in for slightly more and Malecha had the dealer count it before paying off the additional 38,000 chips with . Seymour flipped over and faded the runner runner miracle with the turn and river as final two community cards.
Travis Rawlins had previously doubled up Josep Maria Galindo Lopez and then also lost the remainder of his stack to the Spaniard. All in for 50,000 with , Rawlins saw Galindo Lopez turn over and get there.
Sean Giesbrecht opened to 8,000 and Kenneth Khoo three-bet before Christopher Coghlan got his short stack of 30,000 into the middle out of the big blind. Giesbrecht moved all in about 10 seconds later and Khoo snap-called with the biggest stack.
Coghlan:
Khoo:
Giesbrecht:
The flop immediately improved Giesbrecht and he pumped a fist. On the turn, Khoo had one out remaining and it wasn't meant to be with the coming on the river. Coghlan was eliminated and Khoo had 50,000 chips left, but walked up to the payout desk a few minutes later.
At the same table is still Gerald Karlic, who staged a comeback from just 24,000 chips.
Daniel Neilson has eliminated Qiang Fu and Christos Vlahos in a row.
First the Aussie four-bet jammed for 260,000 effectively with into the pocket kings of Fu. The board came and Neilson won the big pot with two pair.
Then, Vlahos was at risk for 130,000 with and Neilson looked him up with the . Vlahos was drawing dead on the turn but was given a worthless straight on the river to make the bustout even worse. The board ran out .
Stephen Koutsouvelis raised and then fired one barrel on the flop . Navid King had called the first continuation bet and then check-raised all in after the turn. Koutsouvelis called with the for his last 71,000 and King flipped over for the straight draw.
The river blanked and that secured the double up for Koutsouvelis.