The board ran out and Green was sent to the rail. "Sorry sir, I'm never folding an ace there," explained Esfandiari as he elevated his stack to even greater heights -- estimated to be in the vicinity of 650,000.
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The board ran out and Green was sent to the rail. "Sorry sir, I'm never folding an ace there," explained Esfandiari as he elevated his stack to even greater heights -- estimated to be in the vicinity of 650,000.
65. James Campbell
66. Giovanni Nervo
67. Jan Heitmann
68. George Lind III
69. Tom Stig Ahlberg
70. Ian Prevost
71. Torbjorn Jonson
72. Giovanni Bigoni
The board filled out and Boukai's ace-high held up to win the pot, sending Prevost home with $33,240 in prize money. The win propelled Boukai up to 470,000 in chips, moving him a couple spots closer to the top of the leaderboard.
Bigoni will take home $33,240 in prize money for his efforts.
Mark Keightley was the initial raiser making it 14,000 to go before Esfandiari raised it up to 40,000 in position. Keightley thought for a moment before coming over the top and declaring he was all in! Esfandiari instantly called and flashed as he jumped up on the chair in delight to exclaim to the room that he was now in a pot worth over 600,000! Keightley was sick when he realised the situation that he was in with his holding of .
The board ran out and Esfandiari doubles up to around 620,000 in chips! Keightley was gutted as his once-healthy stack is now down to around 60,000.
74. Tommi Horkko
75. Benjamin Kang
76. William Martin
77. Sean Bruder
78. Felipe Ramos
79. Ed de Haas
80. Trond Erik Eidsvig
Johnny Lodden 530,000
Rami Boukai 469,000
Isaac 'westmenloAA' Baron 410,000
Oyvind Riisem 350,000
Pierre Hall found a perfect time to pick up pocket aces when Kalil Rahal had pocket tens on a flop of . All the money went into the middle and the turn and river arrived to jump Hall up to around 150,000 in chips.
A few hands later, Kalil found himself pushing all in pre-flop but ran into the pocket jacks of Brian Green. Kalil held and needed some help. It arrived on the flop, with the board of doubling Kalil back to around 75,000.
Meanwhile, Giovanni Bigoni looked to be in trouble when his push with two red threes was called by Andrew Luetchford who held pocket tens. Amazingly the board ran out to give Bigoni the bottom end of a straight to double back up to around 80,000 in chips.