David Callaghan raised to 900, the small blind called and John Eames three-bet to 3,600 from the big blind.
Flop:
The small blind checked and John Eames moved his last 5,000 over the line. Callaghan made the call and the small blind folded and we had a showdown with Eames at risk of elimination.
Showdown
Eames
Callaghan
Turn: & River:
Doubles up for Eames who tells us he has played a hand or two of PLO before.
Alexander Kostritsyn raised to 1,200 in the hijack seat and there was a cold call from the cut-off before Fabrizio Gonzalez squeezed out a three-bet from the button making it 5,400 to play. All eyes veered towards Kostritsyn and he four-bet the total pot which was 15,200. The cut-off folded and Gonzalez went into the tank.
"These nits," Lacay joked.
Gonzalez decided to bide his time and made the fold.
Tommy Vedes, Rocco Palumbo and Martin Fernando managed to get all of their chips into the middle three-way. Vedes had everyone at the table covered so was not at risk of elimination but the other two were.
Palumbo
Fernando
Vedes
Board:
The result of the fracas was an elimination for Fernando, a dent for Vedes and a double up for Palumbo.
From cut-off there was a raise to 1,400 and Guillaume Humbert three-bet to 3,500 from the button. Jon Spinks was in the big blind and called, they went three way to the flop.
The flop was and Spinks potted right away after which Humbert got in his remaining chips for a total of 29,000. Spinks called giving us a very exciting showdown.
Jon Spinks
Guillaume Humbert
The turn was the and the river the giving Spinks the win with just a pair of jacks. The young Brit is amongst the chip leaders at this point with just 35 minutes of play left.
When it comes to WSOP bracelet hunts Nicolas Fierro had a few close calls this Summer. The man from Chile finished 3rd in the $5,000 Shootout for $198,096 and then finished a very respectable 34th place in the Main Event itself for $242,636. He has just been moved to the left of former chip leader Roberto Romanello. Notice the use of the word former! It appears Fierro has settled in quite nicely and has taken some chips from the Welshman and has now become our new chip leader. Here he is in action against Victor Ramdin.
There was a raise by Ramdin in first position and Romanello and Fierro called in the blinds. The flop was and the action checked around to Fierro who bet 3,000 and only Ramdin called. The turn of was checked through and the river brought a little bit more action. Fierro bet 6,200 but Ramdin raised it up to 18,000. Fierro had a rye smile on his face and looked like he was going to call before eventually folding. Ramdin flipped over the lone and there were a few smirks around the table