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On the
flop, Gavin bet 185,000, and Ruthenberg called.A
turn led to a prompt all in from Gavin. "Wow," said the German.
With Gavin fidgeting in his seat, scrunching up his face and generally making little effort to maintain a stoic poker face, Ruthenberg made the fold.
Gavin showed a king, but that wasn't enough for Ruthenberg who pleaded to see the other card. "I had you," claimed Gavin. "Well, why don't you show then," Sebastian replied.
In the end, Gavin didn't show his second card and it looks as though we'll have to wait until the televised broadcast to find out if he really did have his man beat.
flop heads up. Ruthenberg led out for 60,000 and Kitai called. The turn came the 
and both men checked.
, Ruthenberg checked again. Kitai pushed out 140,000 and Ruthenberg gave the bet a solid 60 seconds of consideration before throwing his hand away. Kitai found himself back over the 1 million chip mark with that pot.
, before being called by a pot-committed Irishman who held 
.
flop will have caused the German to perspire profusely, but a harmless 
river gave him the pot.
dominated Ukella's 
and his hand held up on the 
board to double him up to 1,120,000-- quite remarkable considering it wasn't too long ago he was down to 1.3 big blinds. 
on the turn against Martin Nielsen earlier today, had not been running too well. Point being, Mercier needed more dramatic come-from-behind theatrics in this hand to avoid a sixth place finish. It was relatively quiet as the board ran out 