We caught the action after a loud, collective "oooohhhhh," from the table. We saw a completed board of and Lance Dodd, standing on his way to payout. Youkyoung Oh had the winning tabled in front of her.
As it was told to us, Dodd and Oh got it all in preflop and Dodd had and was looking good to double up after the flop and turn, but Oh spiked the ten on the river to complete the rollercoaster of emotions.
The action folded around to Ilan Boujenah in the cutoff and he made it 20,000 to go. Sam Lee called on the button and Barry Austreicher squeezed all-in from the big blind for 199,000. Boujenah reshoved to isolate his all-in opponent and Lee stepped out of the way.
Boujenah:
Austreicher:
The first three community cards fell , keeping the pocket nines in front, The on the turn gave Boujenah outs to a straight flush, but the on the river was no help to him and he handed over a chunk of his stack, but he's still in great shape with 530,000 chips.
David Peters moved all in for his last 115,000 from middle position and the player in the small blind made the call. Peters turned over and his opponent tabled . The board ran out and Peters stayed alive.
Denmark's Claas Segebrecht has passed through the one millionaire chip barrier as the first break approaches, according to his Twitter feed that reads "Raise. One Million. #YerryYangtimes"
Timothy Reilly lost a huge pot a few minutes before the break to leave him with 220,000 chips, but then added an extra 30,000 to his stack as the players headed out for the first break.