Isaac Haxton's tournament has come to a brutal end at the hands of Dario Sammartino. In a button against small blind situation, Haxton had four-bet to 9,500 after Sammartino had put in a three-bet.
Sammartino five-bet shoved around 45,000 effectively. Haxton double-checked his hole cards before making the call.
Dario Sammartino:
Isaac Haxton:
Sammartino's timing couldn't be much worse, although he picked up some outs after the flop.
The landed on the turn and Sammartino took the lead with two pair. Haxton just nodded when the jack appeared and nodded even more when the on the river improved the Italian to an improbable full house.
After counting the stacks, Haxton had slightly less than Sammartino and was eliminated. Sammartino couldn't hide a smile when stacking up Haxton's chips.
Thomas Muehloecker had just three-barreled through a board of and picked the worst possible timing, as Dmitry Yurasov called his shove on the river and tabled for a full house to double for another 39,175 in an already big pot.
Just then, Marius Gierse raised to 1,200 from under the gun and Vladimir Shabalin called on the button. On the flop, Gierse's continuation bet was met by a shove from Shabalin and Gierse called with the words "you really have aces? What are the odds, when I already have ace-ten suited."
Vladimir Shabalin:
Marius Gierse:
The turn changed nothing, but the river gave Gierse a royal flush to double for 6,950.
The High Rollers are heading into their next and final 15-minute break of the day, and one further level of 60 minutes each will be played for tonight. After that, many of them will likely head straight over to the stadium to watch AS Monaco take on Juventus Turin in the semi-final of the Champions League.
So far, the screens show 138 entries including 13 re-entries, and 106 players remain.
Ryan Riess raised to 1,700 and was called by Mustapha Kanit on the button and Tom-Aksell Bedell in the small blind called. On a flop of , Bedell checked and Riess bet 3,200 and both opponents called.
The turn was checked by all three players before Bedell also checked the river. Riess made it 9,500 to go and Kanit looked over to see the stack of Bedell before tossing in two T-5,000 chips for the call. Bedell folded and Riess turned over for a full house to claim the pot.
The other big stack at the table is PokerStars Team Pro Felipe Ramos, also on six digits.
Guillaume Diaz, Marius Gierse and Thomas Muehloecker have been eliminated and the same applied for Pascal Hartmann, Ole Schemion and Alexander Uskov. The latter three all opted to fire the second bullet, though, boosting the number of re-entries to 16 already.
On the finished board of , Patrik Antonius bet 14,000 out of the big blind and Julian Thomas moved all in. "How much is it?" Antonius asked and soon after splashed in his entire chips.
Thomas turned over and Antonius said "nice, I have the king-high flush," with a sarcastic smile on the face while flipping over . Thomas, who is on his second bullet, doubled for 49,300 and Antonius was left short on 25 big blinds.
On an flop, Rainer Kempe bet 3,300 and Jason Mercier called in position. The turn was the and Kempe continued with 5,800, which Mercier called as well.
The river brought the and Kempe slowed down and checked. Mercier shoved all in for Kempe's remaining stack of 26,000 and the German folded his hand reluctantly.
Ivan Luca raised to 2,000 and Joao Simao called before Javier Gomez Zapatero three-bet to 8,000 from one seat over. The action folded back to Luca, who let the clock run down to just three seconds before announcing all in. Simao folded, but Gomez Zapatero quickly tossed in a single chip for the call.
Javier Gomez Zapatero:
Ivan Luca:
The most classic race of tournament poker went to Luca, who flopped trips on a board of .