Just before the end of level seven, Chance Kornuth and Felipe "Mojave" Ramos have been sent to the rail and will have to reenter in order to make profit in the tournament. According to the screens, there are already 162 entries.
Two players were getting to their feet as we approached Sam Greenwood and Mike McDonald's table. There was a pile of coloured chips heading Greenwood's way, and we had to make some sense of all the cards on their backs.
What was clear that Greenwood had won the chips on a board, but the other hands helped to explain the car-crash that had unfolded. According to Greenwood himself it was a four-way all-in on the flop with Greenwood , Berthold Winz , Fabian Ortiz, and Jyri Merivirta , which ended in Greenwood boosting his stack to over 200,000 and eliminating both Winz and Merivirta.
"Have you ever been in a post-flop four-way all-in?" asked Mike McDonald.
"I've been in some weird hands in my life!" replied Greenwood.
Ortiz was left very short and busted soon after as well.
It went by so far, it was not even clear who busted in the hand. All that has become apparent is the fact that Dietrich Fast had pocket aces and his opponent pocket kings.
Darrel Goh and David Peters were both eliminated but then immediately reentered to bring the total of second bullets up to 21 already. They were soon joined by Ivan Luca to make it 22.
Vyacheslav Goryachev raised to 2,000 from the cutoff and Alex Difelice called on the button before Jussi Nevanlinna three-bet the small blind for 11,000. Goryachev folded and Difelice asked his opponent how much he started with before making the call. On the flop , both players checked.
The turn saw Nevanlinna check-raised all in after Difelice had bet 14,500 and the Canadian snap-called.
Nevanlinna:
Difelice:
The river blanked and was already meaningless anyways, but Nevanlinna may very well back for his second bullet.
On the river, Bryn Kenney fired a bet worth 9,000 and Nicholas Palma then raised big to 30,000. Kenney, looking up from his massage, eventually called and was then shown the for the nut straight by Palma to surrender the chips.
"I folded the nine ten pre flop," Felix Bleiker added.
Shortly after busting short stack Francisco Oliveira in a flip, Chance Kornuth took on Akin Tuna and bet 2,700 on the ]9d8c7d] flop. Tuna check-called out of the big blind while the third player in the hand folded. Both checked the turn before Tuna check-raised the river from 7,800 to 21,600.
"Good hand," Kornuth said and tossed his cards into the muck.
The stack of Alexander Ivarsson has melted and he was just spotted standing up from his chair, the barely visible anymore before it was tossed into the muck. Shyam Srinivasan was on the button and held the winning with the Swede being in under the gun, thus a four-bet shove seems the most likely scenario.
Christoph Vogelsang opened to 2,000 from under the gun and Alen Bilic in the small blind as well as Jared Jaffee in the big blind called. On the flop , only Bilic check-called the continuation bet worth 2,400 before check-folding the turn to a bet of 10,000.
Then, Jason Mercier arrived almost in time back from dinner having missed just the one hand.