Barry Greenstein has been eliminated. He open-shoved in early position for 41,500, and Chris Dombrowski reraised all in to isolate.
Dombrowski:
Greenstein, a mere:
Board:
Greenstein produced a copy of his book from underneath his chair and gave it to Dombrowski, they shook hands, and he wandered off, trailed by his devoted wife.
[Removed:326] had it all in preflop with against Dean Schneider's . The board was entirely unhelpful to [Removed:327], coming down to send him to the rail.
During the break, one of my media colleagues inquired about a player called Eric Celeste, so, keen to keep him updated on his friend's performance, I decided to calculate his stack.
Little did I know that on the opening hand of the level, Celeste would be feeding my thirst for action with an all-in and subsequent double-through.
Dustin Dirksen, who displays more moves than a Take That concert, raised it to 13,000 preflop only for Celeste to push for around 50,000 in chips from the small blind.
Although it was assumed the action would fold back round to Dirksen, momentum suddenly paused on the big blind David Steicke just one seat down.
Clearly holding a big hand, Steicke asked for a count of Celeste's stack before ultimately pushing all in himself. Dirksen happily sidestepped out of the way.
As they turned over the hands, Celeste's expression said it all, his in all sorts of bother against Steicke's commanding pair of ladies, .
However, poker is full of surprises, and when hit the flop, Celeste suddenly increased his outs by eight.
Although the on the turn made no difference, one of those outs arrived on the river, the giving Celeste the straight and triggering a stunned silence as Steicke begrudgingly counted out his stack.
As a result, Steicke is down to the felt, whilst the merry Celeste jumps up to 100,000.
After displaying the patience of a chess master, Mike Ellis has finally been rewarded with a double-up and now sits on 120,000.
Admittedly, he needed a little luck to reach that figure, his all-in squeeze play with K-Q to a 10,000 raise and subsequent call, ultimately being called by A-J.
However, he had two live cards, one of which hit on the otherwise raggy board.