Jeremy Pantin, who started the day with the lead, raised from late position and short stack Jack Ferguson shoved from the cutoff for 2,450,000. Pantin called and tabled , trailing the of Ferguson. After a board of , Ferguson doubled with the ace-high straight and Pantin dropped some chips, Moritz Dietrich in one seat over now holds the most chips on his table.
The youngest-ever triple crown winner and British poker legend Jake Cody was the pre-flop aggressor as he made it 425,000 to play from the cut-off. Only Jerry Odeen called from the small blind and the two men went heads-up to a flop of .
Cody c-bet to 475,000 and again got a call from Odeen, before both men checked the turn. On the river, however, Odeen led for 950,000 and Cody was faced with a decision. He elected to call and Odeen only had . Cody's was good enough to take a decent pot away and he is now right up there in the upper part of the chipcounts with 139 players remaining.
Cathal Shine raised to 450,000 from first position, Vicente Delgado reraised to 1,630,000 before Enze Del Piero in the big blind announced all-in for 3,110,000. Shine got out of the way, and Delgado made the call.
The board ran out in favor of Piero's , and Delgado mucked his and handed over the chips as instructed by the dealer.
As Piero raked in the pot, he asked the dealer to repeat the amount he was paid. Apparently, they could not quite come to an agreement on the total tally, and thus the pot was recreated by separating Piero's stack into antes, blinds, and raises.
The solution ended up being Delgado throwing over an additional 100,000 chip to Piero, and both players seemed content with the result.
After a limp by Ivan Gabrieli, Manig Loeser moved all in for 2,925,000 from the cutoff and Paul Carr in the big blind gave it some though, then eventually called. Gabrieli folded and the cards were tabled.
Manig Loeser:
Paul Carr:
The board ran out and the jack on the river ended Loeser's tournament, he receives £10,000.
Ian Simpson was faced with a huge decision on the river when we joined his table, which also features Jake Cody, Jerry Odeen and Maria Lampropulos. Mark Kelsall had moved all-in over-the-top of Simpson's bet of 1.25million into a pot of 2.5 million. Kelsall's all-in stack wouldn;t knock Simpson out, but it was worth well over 3.5million and would decimate Simpson's stack if he was wrong.
"Queen-Ten?" asked Simpson to a stony face. "We could have the same hand."
Eventually, Simpson called and showed his hand of . He was right with his first thought, however, as Kelsall held and swept the pot of 10 million chips with a full house on the river.
After a raise to 425,000 by the player on the button, Noah Vaillancourt shoved for 5,165,000 in the small blind and Robert Schulz in the big blind reraised all in. The initial raiser reluctantly folded and the cards were turned over.
Noah Vaillancourt:
Robert Schulz:
The board ran out to give Schulz top pair on the flop and Vaillancourt a set on the river. Other notables on the table include Jon Spinks, Frank Romanello, Stephen Chidwick and Mateusz Rypulak. Soenke Jahn is the short stack with around 16 big blinds.
There are just 11 players still in with a chance of winning the £100,000 Last Longer. Purely for playing their Day 1 flight of the partypokerLIVE MILLIONS Main Event as part of a trip last year to the Caribbean Adventure in November, they are down to the last dozen players.
Who will take the £100,000 from this list?
Jonas Lauck
Mateusz Rypulak
Marius Torbergsen
Mike Leah
Thomas Boivin
Martyn Frey
Andy Hills
Thomas Dunwoodie
Toby Joyce
Robert Kostesky
Frank Romanello