When we walked up to the table, the action was on Yohan [Removed:250] who was under-the-gun. He was wiggling his finger, pulled out his sunglasses and put them on. Yevgeniy Timoshenko said, "oh no." Alex Kravchenko said, "this is scary," and Timoshenko looked at [Removed:250] again and said "It's my big blind, come and get it."
[Removed:250] threw out a bet of 13,000 before Richard Lyndaker moved all-in. for about 37,000 more. It folded around to [Removed:250] who thought about it for a moment, but his Christian Audigier hood on his head, and finally made the call.
Lyndaker tabled and when [Removed:250] turned over his , Lyndaker said, "All right, good game guys."
The flop came down . The turn brought the , and Lyndaker said, "Oh my God, please." The hit the river and Lyndaker got the double up and is sitting with around 95,000 now.
Matt Marafioti just stood up from his chair to take a picture of Gus Hansen's abandoned and dwindling stack.
Hansen has yet to show up, despite phone calls saying that he's on his way. There are currently 22,900 chips in front of Hansen's empty chair, and the blinds are coming around fast at his six-handed table.
A smattering of chip counts from around the tables, in no particular order:
Tobias Reinkemeier - 320,000
Chad Brown - 99,000
ElkY - 305,000
William Thorson - 70,000
Allen Bari - 235,000
Leo Fernandez - 165,000
Matthew Woodward - 228,00
Tom Marchese - 380,000
Luke Schwartz - 215,000
Tony G - 46,000
Markus Golser - 297,000
Sorel Mizzi - 410,000
Matt Marafioti - 106,000
Antoine Saout - 202,000
Paul Berende - 192,000
It was all-in preflop between Tony G and Dori Yacoub.
Tony G:
Yacoub:
The board rolled out and it was looking good for The G. The fell on the turn, but it was the that hit the river that sent Yacoub jumping out of his chair, happy not to be making an exit.
When we joined the action, the pot was heads-up with about 85,000 chips in the middle of the table. The board showed , and Antoine Saout fired a bet of 56,000 at the pot.
His lone opponent was Sorel Mizzi, and Mizzi went into the tank as he cut out the calling chips and shuffled them between his fingers. After several curious glances in Saout's direction, the chips went into the pot.
Saout quickly mucked, and Mizzi showed his good-enough to take that sizable pot with just his naked ace-high. A wave of surprise worked its way around the table as the other players assessed what they had just seen. Matt Marafioti finally piped up with a sort of backhanded compliment:
"I feel bad for this guy," he said pointing at Saout. "He makes sick bluffs and gets called by morons. And he gets sucked out on in the Main Event by idiots shoving with deuces. Sh***y life!"
Mizzi simply stacked his newfound chips quietly, finally looking up to smirk and quip, "Don't bluff me," to anyone still listening.
Mizzi is right around 400,000 after that pot, while Saout drops down to 202,000.
"Did you see what just happend," asked Yevgeniy Timoshenko when we walked by the table. We didn't, so he told us.
Timoshenko, who was short, had moved all-in. Yohan [Removed:250] apparently looked down at one of his cards, saw the and called, because that was his "favorite card."
Timoshenko had . [Removed:250] obviously had the and to go with that, the .
The board came down and Timoshenko doubled up, although he is still sitting pretty short.
Matthew Woodward just knocked off Mikhail Smirnov in a pretty sizable pot.
The board showed when Smirnov shoved, and Woodward made the quick call with his flush. Smirnov's was in bad shape, and he was looking for a spade to stay alive. The river was indeed not a spade; it was the wrong color entirely, and Smirnov has been eliminated.
Alexander Kravchenko made it 6,100 to go and Yohan [Removed:250] made the call and checked blind from the small blind. As the flop was coming down, Kravchenko said, "I'm not going to bed blind."
Flop:
Kravchenko bet 6,100 and [Removed:250] bumped it up to 26,000.
Kravchenko gave it some thought, and then some more thought, and asked, "Do you have a ten?" To that, [Removed:250] said "Pay and I show."
Kravchenko didn't pay. He mucked his cards and [Removed:250] flipped over his cards, showing . "You win or I win," he said. "I win," said Kravchenko.