Three players were all in before the flop, Julio Ruiz was at risk for his last 110,000, imitated by Jolyne Thompson with 220. When it was David Froyalde to act, he also decided to call, with 240,000 total.
Julio Ruiz:
Jolyne Thompson:
David Froyalde:
The board ran and Froyalde eliminated two players at the same time.
Greg Himmelbrand raised to 25,000 from the hijack, and the player in the cutoff moved all in for 161,000 which folded all action back around to Himmelbrand who called.
Opponent:
Greg Himmelbrand:
The board ran out and Himmelbrand's pocket tens held up to give his stack a healthy boost.
During hand-for-hand we had four players bust, splitting in the bottom three payouts between the four of them.
Anthony Potis busted when he got his last 63,000 in from the small blind versus the button of Sergio Coutinho. Potis had versus and the sealed his fate as one of the bust outs.
Arash Toofan apparently thought they were already in the money and jammed all in for 113,000 from the button against Artan Dedusha. Toofan had against the of Dedusha. The board ran out to bust Toofan. ''I'm so tired, I thought we were in the money'', said Toofan as one player at Toofan's table was Frenchman Benoit De Sousa, with just one 1,000 chip left.
Another two players busted at the same time and we are in the money. The remaining 638 played have locked up a min-cash of $1,061 with a flurry of bust outs sure to ensure as we move into the money.
Three more levels will be played after the next 20-minute break, that will commence shortly.
Ivan Tschudy open 24,000 and Ed Keid called from the button, so did the player in the big blind.
On a flop, the first two players checked to Keid who bet 35,000. The player in the blind folded, but Tschudy announced all in for 600,000.
Keid was covered with only 200,000, and he called.
Ed Keid:
Ivan Tschudy:
The dealer completed that board with a turn and river and Keith was eliminated, Tschudy made a nut flush.
The floor asked the dealers to deal one more hand.
Action was caught with Marcus Paxton and Stefan Nagl who were all-in before the flop. They almost had the same stack.
Stefan Nagl:
Marcus Paxton:
The dealer proposed a board qui gave the win for Nagl. Then he counted the two stacks and Paxton was finally still in, with only one yellow chip of 1,000.
Paxton was big blind on the next hand, and meet Tarun Goyal with a pair of aces. He was finally eliminated before the bubble.