Mark Kroon drew a lot of attention in this main event for his talkative nature, and for building up his chip stack. He ended Day 1c and 2c as the chip leader, but took a big hit yesterday, and came in as an average stack today. He made the money, but his tournament has just come to an end at the hands of [Removed:532].
An early position player raised it up, and [Removed:550] called in late position. Kroon tagged along from the big blind, and the three saw a flop of 
. It was checked to [Removed:550], who bet out 16,000. Kroon opted for a check raise to 36,000, and that got the other player out of the hand. It was back to [Removed:550], and he thought it over for a bit before reraising to 86,000. Kroon moved all in for his last 320,000, and [Removed:550] made the call.
[Removed:550]: 
Kroon: 
The players had to wait for the cameras to get set up, and Kroon started joking with [Removed:550]. "I run good in these situations, just so you know. The ten of hearts always come." The cameras got set up, and the 
hit the turn, giving [Removed:550] the nut flush draw, and taking one of Kroon's outs away. "Ten of hearts always comes on the river." The whole table got a laugh out of that, and the river brought the 
. Kroon doubled checked that he hadn't found a way to split the pot, and he wished everyone luck, shook everyone's hand, and headed for the payout desk.
After taking down that bounty, [Removed:550] is now up to over a million, and is one of our bigger stacks as we crack the top 500 players left.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
![Profile photo of [Removed:532]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
|
1,090,000
729,000
|
729,000 |
|
Eliminado |
. Sheikhan bet 25,000, and Weiss raised to 60,000. Sheikhan hurled his cards into the muck, leaned back and cursed loudly.
. The action checked to Tonnesen, who fired out 28,000, and only Jones and Rivet called.
, Jones and Rivet checked again, and Tonnesen tossed out 80,000. This time the bet got through, and he took down the pot.
against Mikhail Petrov's 
.
and the river the 
, and Curtis's supporters had new reason to cheer.
and couldn't improve against Paul Taylor's 
on the turn and 
