The last hand started about four minutes before the end of the level, but Joao Vieira tanked for five minutes and long into the break before he sent his stack over to Dario Sammartino.
Vieira, who was down to 50,000 when the hand started, had raised from the small blind and Sammartino called. On the flop, Vieira continued for 6,800 and was called before he made it 10,200 to go on the turn. Sammartino tossed in the chips for the call before the Portuguese player checked the river. Sammartino put him all in for around 30,000, and Vieira ended up calling with the after a long tank. Unfortunately for him, he only saw his tournament life end, as Sammartino made runner-runner trips with the .
Despite the bust, a second entry is possible until the start of Day 2 for Vieira, so we may see him enter the competition again.
The flop was and Niall Farrell had bet 10,500. He got called by Kevin MacPhee, then Felix Bleiker reraised to 40,500. Farrell three-bet to 83,000, and action moved back to MacPhee, who tanked before announcing he was all in for his remaining 236,700. Bleiker folded and Farrell called.
"I've got big draws," Farrell said.
Farrell:
MacPhee:
Both players had flush draws, but Farrell had the added bonus of a straight flush draw, and if that didn't help him, a nine or five would help, too. However, it didn't matter in the end as the on the turn crippled his outs to one, and the was not it on the river.
Max Silver, who is currently playing in the High Roller Event, has released an app with the name Snap Shove to help other players with short-stacked play. You can read the news article about it by clicking here. Whether or not he will have to put this specific knowledge at use in this tournament remains to be seen, and the PokerNews live reporting team will be following his progress.
Rainer Kempe opened the action with a raise and then called the reraise of Timothy Adams for 19,000 out of the small blind. On the flop , Adams continued for 17,000 and was called before both players opted to check the turn and the river.
Kempe's won the pot and he moved back above starting stack.
Short stack Kyle Frey raised to 5,500 from under the gun and all players including Christoph Vogelsang in the big blind mucked their cards. One hand later, Paul Newey opened to 5,500 and Frey moved all in from the big blind. Newey released his cards as well and Frey moved his stack to around 25 big blinds.
Short-stackked Kyle Frey opened to 5,500 from middle position and saw a shove from Jean-Noel Thorel on the button. The blinds folded and action was back on Frey who made the call.
Frey:
Thorel:
"You know it's coming!" said Christophe Vogelsang, and it's safe to assume that Frey won't be buying the German a drink at the player's party tomorrow night as the appeared in the window. The entire board read and Frey headed to the exit
We missed what happened, but Jason Mercier was kind enough to fill us in after Andrew Lichtenberger had already exited the tournament area.
"Yeah, really weird hand" Anthony Zinno commented with a smile.
Mercier, without any jokes, told us he opened the button to 5,200. Andrew Lichtenberger shoved for 47,000 from the big blind and Mercier called. Lichtenberger had while Mercier had off. The board ran out and Lichtenberger was the second player to bust out.
"Be sure to add that Jason fist pumped" Timothy Adams commented with an even bigger smile.
"I didn't" Mercier replied, as the table was waiting for a new player before play continued. Max Silver eventually came over to take Lichtenberger's former seat. "LuckyChewy" reentered right away, and has a crisp 250,000 stack to work with again.
Anton Bertilsson continues to dominate the top of the chip count after taking down two pots in a row, on two different tables. The last hand of his previous table saw the Swede bet 18,000 on the turn and Chance Kornuth check-called out of the blinds. On the river, Kornuth checked again and Bertilsson fired a bet of 34,000.
Kornuth made the call, but then mucked when he was shown the for a rivered set by his opponent.
Straight after, Bertilsson was moved to another table and faced a raise to 5,300 by Kevin MacPhee. Three players including the Swede in the small blind called and they checked the flop. Bertilsson bet the turn for 7,000 and that was enough to take down the pot.
Daniel Dvoress raised to 6,000 and Kim Wittendorff then made it 16,000 to go out of the small blind before the Canadian shoved for another 50,000 on top. Wittendorff called and Dvoress was at risk in a coin flip scenario:
Dvoress:
Wittendorff:
The Dane was asking for a deuce on the flop and the turn, but it was not needed with the river blanking out for Dvoress as well.