Bertrand Grospellier, who was seated at the feature table all day, has just been eliminated. He was already down to just 6,500 when his last hand started.
Lodden opened the cutoff for 3,200 and Grospellier shoved allin from the button. Both blinds folded, Lodden made the call for just a tiny bit more.
Johnny Lodden:
Bertrand Grospellier:
The board din't give Grospellier any useful card with and that was it for Grospellier. Lodden added the small pot to his already impressive stack, Grospellier shook hands with everyone at the table and made his exit.
The flop was reading , Scott Clements and Oliver Bosch had both checked to Matias Alberto Ruzzi who bet 8,500. Maximos Pertsinidis made the call before Clements check-raised to 24,000. Interestingly, Bosch now cold-called this bet, Ruzzi and Pertsinidis both folded.
The turn saw both players check before Clements bet 20,000 on the river. Bosch made the call and Clements showed for a pair and a flush draw that turned into trips on the end.
Clements moved up to 260,000 while Bosch dropped to 280,000.
Steve O'Dwyer has been eliminated from the tournament. Unfortunately we missed his exit hand, but we were able to track him down. Well, it wasn't actually so much tracking down as he was standing on the rail talking to someone from the production company.
O'Dwyer told us that he had shoved his last ten big blinds in with king-nine suited. He had five opponents to overcome but wouldn't succeed in that mission.
The player on the button woke up with pocket aces and wasn't going anywhere. O'Dwyer couldn't make the suck out and had to leave the secondary feature table.
With O'Dwyer out, just Johnny Lodden is left of the eight players who made the final table here last year.
Tom Middleton moved all in for his last 32,000 from the big blind over the top of Mohsin Charania's small blind raise. Charania called with , Middleton showed and the man they call 'Middy' couldn't hit a king to survive.
Jennifer Robles found Antonio Esfandiari getting some fresh air at the break of the Main Event. He discusses the aggressive players at his table and the way they've been attacking the Magician.
Antonio Esfandiari had been entertaining the table with a few stories about Dan Bilzerian without mentioning his second name, including one where he allegedly threw someone into a swimming pool with unfortunate end results.
“Dan? Dan Smith?” asked Narendra Banwari to much hilarity as the consensus was that that particular Dan wouldn’t be throwing anybody particularly far.
Esfandiari opened for 2,600 and it was Banwari who was the only caller. “Hey Antonio, I’m playing a pot with you.” he said.
“I hope you don’t connect.” Esfandiari responded. “I don’t care, just bet big so I can fold.” Banwari shot back.
The flop was and a bet of 3,000 from Banwari saw Esfandiari make the fold.
Banwari showed the and loudly declared, “It’s gonna be in the history books. I won a hand with Antonio Esfandiari the eighteen million dollar man.”
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and that was it for Grospellier. Lodden added the small pot to his already impressive stack, Grospellier shook hands with everyone at the table and made his exit.
, Scott Clements and Oliver Bosch had both checked to Matias Alberto Ruzzi who bet 8,500. Maximos Pertsinidis made the call before Clements check-raised to 24,000. Interestingly, Bosch now cold-called this bet, Ruzzi and Pertsinidis both folded.
turn saw both players check before Clements bet 20,000 on the river. Bosch made the call and Clements showed 
, Middleton showed 
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had come to his rescue if they could just hold.
and although Nystrom was still short he was still in.
and a bet of 3,000 from Banwari saw Esfandiari make the fold.