Mickey Petersen opened for 3,200, got a call from Niall Farrell on the button and faced a raise from Mitchell Johnson in the big blind to 10,000. Peterson folded and Farrell called. The flop was and Johnson led out for 9,500. Farrell sized up his opponents stack (60,000), he had him covered, and announced “All in.” Johnson quickly called. “I have a queen.” Said Farrell turning over , clearly hoping to see worse. Johnson turned over . “Coin flip situation.” Farrell groaned clearly not fancying it. “Classic.” Said another player. on the turn brought the flush in and Farrell was drawing dead. River .
Arriving at the table, Benjamin Garcia had already moved all in for 65,400 and [Removed:17] had reshoved from the blinds. The onus was on Team PokerStars SportStar Fatima Moreira de Melo who was tanking.
Finally she made the call for her 98,000 stack.
Garcia:
Yan:
de Melo:
The board came and de Melo doubled through Yan while eliminating Garcia at the same time. She's gone from almost being out to chip leader in the space of about 20 minutes!
PokerStars Team Online Pro Mickey Petersen is grinding it out so far today. If it’s folded to him it’s more than likely he will enter the pot with a min raise and try to play the hand in position or steal the blinds. Peterson opened for 3,200 and was called by Lee Hunter in the small blind and Barry Greenstein in the big blind. They saw a flop of and all three of them checked. on the turn and now Hunter bet out, making it 6,000. He got the respect and the two pros folded.
Petersen was at it again, 3,200 he made it but folded to a raise to 7,400 from Mitchell Johnson. Undeterred, Peterson raised to 3,200 the very next hand and this time was rewarded when he picked up the blinds and antes.
Game over for Gregory Humphries, he was all in blind on blind against Matthew Mckenzie but the latter's triumphed over Humphries' on a board to leave only one man standing.
The hijack had opened to 3,200 preflop with Full Tilt Poker Tour Ambassador Martins Adeniya calling on the button. Fellow Ambassador Sin Melin moved all in for her last few thousand chips from the small blind having been crippled previously.
Harry Lodge then reraised all in for about 35,000 in the big blind, the hijack and Adeniya both then folded.
"I haven't looked," confessed Melin, before turning over . Lodge showed .
A huge amount of noise just came from the far end of the room after a monster pot.
Sam Razavi:
Dominik Nitsche:
Martin Hanitz:
The flop came and Hanitz stayed ahead but the on the turn gave Nitsche the lead; however, Razavi almost fell out of his chair on the river when he made a straight and eliminated both the other players as a result.