One of the biggest hands of the tournament has just played out. It started with Anthony Gregg jamming for 4,010,000 from middle position. Folded around to Isaac Haxton in the small blind and he thought long and hard before shoving over the top for his stack of around 20 million. Sven Heinecker was in the big blind and made a fairly quick call, having a little over 7 million.
Haxton:
Heinecker:
Gregg:
Both Gregg and Heinecker were at-risk, with Gregg having the smallest stack and the strongest hand. When the board was spread on the felt, Gregg had tripled up, while Heinecker took a small hit after winning the main pot versus Haxton. Despite taking a massive hit to his stack, Haxton is still one of the chip leaders.
Thomas McDondald was under the gun when he opened it up to 600,000. Folded around to Isaac Haxton In the hijack and he asked McDonald how much he had left. Haxton found it he had around 6 million and opted to fold. The play was now on Sven Heinecker in the cut off and he would three-bet to 1,250,000. Back on McDonald and after just a few moments, he moved all in. Heinecker called, having a little over 8 million behind.
McDonald:
Heinecker:
McDonald was up on his feet as the dealer rolled out a board and then made his way out of the tournament in a meaningless 15th place.
Heinecker is now one of the chip leaders with a stack of 15 million. Isaac Haxton is on his right with a similar stack.
Sven Heinecker, or Niklas as he is known in the poker world (and will be refered to as such from here on out) has gone on a rampage here late on Day 2 of the GDAM Main Event. He recently eliminated Thomas McDonald and now he has sent Devan Tang to the rail. It started with Heinecker opening to 800,000 from the hijack. Tang was in the big blind and three-bet jammed for 3,985,000. Heinecker made a fairly quick call and the two players tabled their hands.
Tang:
Heinecker:
Tang was in good spirits, (considering the circumstances) as he watched the board hit the felt and with that was sent home just a few places shy of the final table. We are now down to 13 players and Heinecker is the clear the chip leader.
Sorel Mizzi has just managed to pick up a quick double up. Mizzi was all in preflop holding against the of Anthony Gregg. Mizzi was all in for around 7.5 million which was around three quarters of Gregg's stack.
The board ran out in favour of Mizzi, with leaving Gregg with around 3.5 million in chips, while Mizzi was up over 15 million.
We have just found out that Liang Yu has been eliminated over on the feature table. All his chips went to Pratyush Buddiga. Yu held and Buddiga held . Buddiga turned a flush and with that Yu was sent home and we are now down to 12 players.
There has been very little action over here at the main table. Only one flop has been seen in the last couple of orbits and not much has changed. The players just requested for the floor to show the live feed for the GDAM feature table on the screens here by their table. With such a massive bubble coming up, we don't blame them. The floor is currently seeing what they can do.
The players have been sent on a 15-minute break. When we return, the 11 remaining players will continue playing down to an final table of eight - which is also when the bubble will burst.