Brian Rast, the 2015 Super High Roller Bowl champ, just took his seat in the tournament and he managed a double straight away. It happened just before the break when he got his stack all in preflop against Dan Smith.
Smith:
Rast:
Rast was well out in front and he stayed there as the board ran out a safe .
Steffen Sontheimer has re-entered the tournament in an attempt to extend his lead in the race for the Purple Jacket and is currently seated on table four.
As mentioned earlier, Brian Rast was on his way to Event #3, and now he's officially in the field and seated on table four between Stephen Chidwick and Jason Koon.
Steffen Sontheimer was all in for roughly 8,000 in the cutoff before Jake Schindler re-raised his button. David Peters four-bet the big blind only to have Schindler five-bet to 83,000 total.
Peters called and checked the flop as Schindler bet 36,000. Peters called, and both players checked the on the turn as the completed the board on the river.
Peters checked, and Schindler bet out 145,000 with Peters using a forced time extension button before calling.
Schindler revealed his for a full house as Peters showed his , and Sontheimer revealed his and was eliminated.
We missed the preflop action, but we do know that Isaac Haxton got his stack of approximately 110,000 all in against Sergio Aido.
Aido:
Haxton:
Haxton got it in good, but he fell behind on the flop. Haxton was looking for a seven from heaven, but it was not meant to be as the blanked on the turn followed by the on the river.
In a battle of the blinds, Jake Schindler raised to 13,000 from the big blind. From the small blind Steffen Sontheimer raised it up to 50,000, and when the action returned to Schindler, he moved all in for 292,500. Sontheimer called, and the cards were tabled.
Sontheimer:
Schindler:
The board ran out and Schindler spiked the turn to double to nearly 600,000 as Sontheimer was left with just one big blind.