Ian Marmion, a Rational Group Staff Member, had been raising Adam Kelly’s big blind all day. This time Kelly defended to see a flop of and then shoved. Marmion shrugged and called as it wasn’t for much more.
Kelly held and had been looked up by the of Marmion. A turn card and river saw Kelly hit the rail.
Thomas Ward pushed all in from early position for 81,000. The action was passed to Thomas van Veelen on the button and he reraised all in, everyone else folded.
Ward:
van Veelen:
The Dutch player was in front but the board came and van Veelen hung his head in shame. He dropped to to 190,000 while Ward moved up to 175,000.
David Hill opened the action for 17,000 and Josh Hart made the call. Martins Adeniya was closing the action in the big blind and he opted to three-bet squeeze to 58,000.
Hill got out of the way pretty quickly and Hart asked for a call. After some thought Hart decided to give Adeniya the benefit of the doubt and let his hand go.
David Hill is remaining active and using his stack to good effect. Hill was in the small blind and called a preflop raise from Thomas van Veelen on the button for 18,000 and they went to a flop of . Both players checked to see the turn card .
Hill led out for 18,000 and van Veelen made the call. The river was the and Hill made another bet for 24,000. Van Veelen blew out his cheeks, looked around at the tournament clock and took a couple of minutes before he made the call.
“I’ve got a jack.” Hill said turning over . That was good enough as van Veelen mucked his hand.