James Browning had doubled up to 220,000 in a previous hand where his had survived against Duncan McClellan's on a board.
The next hand saw Jamie O'Connor open to 25,000 with Harry Lodge calling on the button. Browning squeezed all in and O'Connor quickly folded.
Lodge made the call but found himself completely dominated.
Lodge:
Browning:
The flop came and Lodge picked up a flush draw, the on the turn added a straight for a huge sweat. The river was the and Lodge made a straight on the river to knock out Browning a win a massive pot for himself.
Harry Lodge opened for 25,000 and was raised by Christopher Jonat to 50,000. The small blind folded and Jamie O'Connor in the big blind cold four bet to 100,000. Lodge folded and Jonat immediately announced all in for 584,000. Jonat stood up and started talking. O’Connor looked puzzled and said “I should snap. The last time you started taking you had kings.” Jonat responded, “I have kings. You should probably fold.” O’Connor got an agreement to show if he folded and duly did so. Jonat did indeed have , O’Connor showed .
“You should have just clicked it back.” Said O’connor. “I would have spazzed it off." Jonat insisted, “I didn’t want the call. I’m enough of a fish. I didn’t want the sweat with my blood pressure.”
The action has slowed right down on both tables now as the tournament is just four eliminations from the final table. However, given that both tables are now six-handed, we're expecting things to happen very soon.
Jamie O’Connor is the most active player on the second feature table, raising nearly every hand to 32,000 when it is folded to him, and having decent success in either taking down the blinds and antes of winning the pot with a small continuation bet on the flop. Barry Greenstein is also doing a fair amount of stealing in position. Christopher Jonat is doing the most defending from the blinds. Alexander Schilt is sitting tight on his short stack Very few hands have gone past the turn this half hour with no big pots won or lost.