Mike Ellis shoved, and Billy Griner asked for a count, but eventually folded.
"Atta boy!" called over one of Ellis' railers. We happen to know that this particular railer's enthusiasm stems not from sheer altruism but the fact that he has a significant piece of Mr. Ellis in this event. We wish them both the best of luck.
Exits are like buses, and after our crazy half-hour bustathon, the action has slowed to a snail's pace. Players are occasionally getting involved, but we rarely see a flop and although the players are starting to look a little sleepy, they are so far giving us every indication that they're in here for the long haul.
Billy Griner raised from the button. Both Martin Jacobson and Mike Ellis folded their respective blinds, and Griner picked up said blinds and the antes.
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Mike Ellis open-shoved, but got no callers and got the blinds and antes instead.
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Billy Griner raised under the gun and it folded all the way around to David Wilkinson in the big blind who folded .
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Mike Ellis shoved again, but once more no-one called.
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Mike Ellis shoved again the next hand, but once more no-one was interested.
David Wilkinson raised, and Mike Ellis did what seems to have become his entire modus operandi - he shoved. Wilkinson folded, and Ellis has done a rather nice job of upping his stack to a million or so without showing a hand.
The flop read , and Martin Jacobson bet 225,000. Christopher Gonzales raised all in, and Jacobson wasted zero time in calling all in for his tournament life.
Jacobson:
Gonzales: somewhat at it with
Turn:
River:
Jacobson doubled to 2.5 million. Gonzales remained chip leader after that, although on a reduced 4 million.