Former big stack Daniel Dvoress faced the raise to 54,000 by David Peters and the call by Quan Zhou before moving all in for a total of 234,000 in the small blind. Peters asked for the count and also looked over to table neighbor Zhou, then folded. Zhou quickly moved forward a stack for the call and put Dvoress at risk.
Daniel Dvoress:
Quan Zhou:
The board of failed to improve Dvoress and he bowed out in 10th place. All remaining nine players will now be united on one table and continue right on the money bubble with less than one minute left on the level.
Action folded around to Artem Metalidi in the small blind and he quickly announced ‘all-in’ and was called instantly by Zuo Wang and from Metalidi’s sharp intake of breath it sounds like this is not a good thing.
Artem Metalidi:
Zuo Wang:
The board ran out meaning Wang’s kicker played and Metalidi departed in 11th place.
Oliver Price was moved over to table two and lasted all but a few hands there. Down to 154,000, he moved all in first to act and Shuo Li called in the cutoff. David Peters then moved all in over the top from the button to force a fold from the blinds. Li also got out of the way and the cards were tabled.
Oliver Price:
David Peters:
After a board of , the kicker played and Peters sent Price to the rail, further increasing his lead and immediately asking for a color up of some chips.
Daniel Dvoress juiced it up to 40,000 from the hi-jack, only to see Dan Smith come over the top from the cutoff with a raise to 122,000 in total. Action folded around to Quan Zhou in the big blind who looked briefly interested but eventually decided against it and folded bringing the action back over to Dvoress, who wanted to know how much Smith was playing.
The two are fairly evenly stacked, though it looks like Dvoress had around maybe 50,000 more. That was enough leverage for Dvoress who moved all-in and Smith snap called.
Dan Smith:
Daniel Dvoress:
The race looked to be a one-sided one when the flop fell but the poker gods had other ideas, however. The turn gave Dvoress a faint glimmer of hope which turned into a blinding ray of light when the landed on the river to give him broadway.
Smith tapped the table as the stacks were counted down, but Dvoress had him covered and that was the end for the 2012 GPI Player of the Year and Smith departed in 13th place.
Davidi Kitai is in the midst of staging the mother of all comebacks and seems untouchable at the moment, a fact the Rafael Moraes has just discovered to his cost.
Pre-flop the action folded around to Kitai on the button and he moved all-in for 213,000. This bet has small blind Moraes covered and sends the Brazilian deep into the think tank.
With just seconds to spare on the shot clock Moraes decides to call it off and the cards go on their backs.
Davidi Kitai:
Rafael Moraes:
The flop came down an extremely one-sided to cheers from Kitai’s watching rail, leaving Moraes drawing to the deck’s two remaining sixes. Unfortunately for Moraes the turn and river were of no help whatsoever and he departed in 14th place.
JC Alvarado and Artem Metalidi got all the chips in pre-flop and it was left to a good old fashioned race to decide the fate of Alvarado’s tournament life.
JC Alvarado:
Artem Metalidi:
Unfortunately for the Mexican, the board ran out and he departed in 15th place while Metalidi stacked up to 376,000.
Davidi Kitai shoved for his last 35,000 from under the gun and Dengfeng Yu reshoved for 120,000 from two seats over. Daniel Dvoress checked the stacks of Yu and the players behind him before announcing the call, while everyone else got out of the way.
Davidi Kitai:
Dengfeng Yu:
Daniel Dvoress:
The board ran out and the rail of the Belgian, including Pierre Calamusa and Fabrice Soulier, applauded as Kitai made a backdoor straight to triple up. Yu however was sent to the rail.
There has been a last-gasp burst of action and Vladimir Troyanovskiy and Zhao Hongjun have departed in a flurry of cards and chips.
We caught the action in Troyanovskiy's bust out hand on the turn in a heads up pot between the former and Daniel Dvoress with the board reading with the Russian facing down a 106,000 bet from the Canadian.
Troyanovskiy burned through nearly the entire allotted 30-seconds before shoving for a little under 260,000 but was called instantly by Dvoress – and did not look happy about this at all. When the cards are turned over we can see why.
Vladimir Troyanovskiy:
Daniel Dvoress:
The Russian was in bad shape, left drawing to the deck’s two remaining jacks, neither of which appeared on the river to send Troyanovskiy to the rail.
While this was happening Zhao Hongjun and Jack Salter became involved in a huge hand that cost the former his tournament life.
We missed all of the action and only arrived in time to catch the aftermath, but Salter was kind enough to recap the action for us before heading off for his dinner.
Pre-flop it was Hongjun who was the aggressor, with Salter calling in position with and hitting gin when the flop came down . Unaware he had walked into a monster Hongjun checked the action over to Salter, who fired for 27,000. The Chinese player sealed his demise after choosing to check raise to 62,000 with Salter craftily smooth calling to set the trap.
Hongjun led out for 95,000 on the turn and Salter smooth-called once again and the river came down a meaningless .
The Chinese player fired out a 100,000 bet, leaving himself 80,000 behind, which he called off when Salter moved all-in, but could only tap the table and stand up to leave when Salter rolled over the stone cold nuts.
Action folded around to Daniel Dvoress on the button and he popped it up to 16,000. Chip leader Mikita Badziakouski was the player in the big blind and with chips to spare he made the call to take play heads-up to the flop.
Badziakouski thought about betting, looked like betting and then… checked. Dvoress checked it back and the turn came down . Badziakouski checked once more and Dvoress decided to take a stab for 15,000.
Badziakouski counted out chips for a raise but thought better of it and threw in the call and the hit the river.
This brought another check from Badziakouski and Dvoress pushed out a bet of 24,000, which was quickly called. Dvoress turned over for the rivered backdoor diamond flush and Badziakouski let out a deep sigh before throwing his hand away.
Louis Salter busted before the break, as did Juicy Li and while we missed their exit hands neither player chose to re-enter.
After a raise by Steve O'Dwyer, Fabian Quoss defended his big blind and checked the flop of . O'Dwyer continued for 20,000 and Quoss then check-raised all in for effectively 110,000, as that's what O'Dwyer had left. The Irishman called and was ahead in the showdown.
Steve O'Dwyer:
Fabian Quoss:
While the turn changed nothing, the river indeed improved Quoss to a straight. O'Dwyer took his belongings, looked down at the mango slices next to his seat, and said "I will take one last bite" before exiting the tournament room. Daniel Dvoress jokingly asked Quoss if he had a bite of the magic mango as well and Quoss nodded with a big grin on his face.