The star-studded table 35 had shed one of its premier players, courtesy of another top dog. From middle position, David Peters saw an flop against Jack Sinclair and checked. Sinclair, on the button, bet 3,500 and Peters called. The on the turn got checked by both players.
Peters, with 9,800 behind in total, checked the river to Sinclair. The Brit casually flung three T-5,000 chips in, and the normally motionless Peters started moving and went in deep thought, eventually settling on a fold after two minutes.
The hand after, Peters flicked it in for said 9,800 in chips and Sinclair threw in two chips to indicate a call. All other players went out of the way.
David Peters:
Jack Sinclair:
Peters picked up straight and flush draws along the way but bricked out on to bust his first attempt. Sinclair, on the other hand, is up to 140,000 and one of the top stacks in the room.
Aymon Hata has dusted off the remainder of Adrian Mateos' stack after the latter was already down to 10,400. While on the short stack, Mateos found in the small blind and went for it, Hata picked up in the big blind and snapped it off.
The board failed to provide the high cards the Spaniard was looking for. Mateos can either opt to reenter today or tomorrow on Day 1b.
In the previous level, Juan Pardo raised to 1,500 and received two callers, including Upeshka De Silva. Daniel Dvoress shoved all in for 3,000, Pardo isolated to 9,000 and got it heads-up against Dvoress.
Daniel Dvoress:
Juan Pardo:
The board ran out and the ace on the river did the Canadian high roller in on his first bullet.
Gaelle Baumann had just 5,000 in chips left and committed every single one of those from the small blind with when action was folded to her. Marco Regonaschi called with in the big blind to try and knock Baumann out, and succeeded as the board ran out .
Players are slowly being moved from the Main Room to the Secondary Room to accommodate for the other tournaments. Sam Greenwood has reentered and taken the spot to the left of Ana Marquez.
With the board reading , Rene Kuhlman bet 4,600, Alexandre Reard called on the button, and a third player folded in the blinds. The on the river went check/check.
Kuhlman showed for kings and queens and Reard mucked, dropping him down to just over 8,000 in chips.
Soortly after, Reard open-shoved 8,200 from the hijack with and got a call from the cutoff with , who held up to eliminate the Frenchman.