With the final board reading 
, Ronnie Bardah checked to Jason Riesenberg. Riesenberg fired a bet of 2,300 and after a minute in the tank, Bardah tossed in the call. Both players tabled the same hand, 
, and chopped it up.
"What were you waiting for?" asked Riesenberg to Bardah after the hand.
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Young Brit Daniel Rudd has doubled through, his push for 12,000 on a 
flop called by 
. Rudd had 
and held on an ensuing turn and 
river. Rudd now on 30,000.
A very sizeable pot had formed by the turn of the 
board when the first player to act checked; Barbara Enright bet 4,000 and the checker called.
Both players checked the 
river, and the player out of position turned over 
for a full house. Enright couldn't beat it and mucked. She'd made a bit of a recovery before the hand, though, so this loss left her only slightly below average on 34,500.
One of the biggest stacks in the room belongs to Gabe Walls, who recently tried to bully a German player named Steven Thomsen out of a pot preflop but to no avail.
Walls opened to 900 from middle position, a player called in the cutoff and our German friend three-bet to 3,750 with the button. The blinds folded and as ESPN cameras rushed to the table, Walls made a huge raise moving all in. The player in the cutoff released, but Thomsen called all in for 16,075 more.
Walls: 
(Weeeeee)
Thomsen:
The flop: 
"That's a fun flop," Walls said with a smile.
Thomsen stood up in frustration as the turned, keeping him alive. There were two aces in the deck that could win Thomsen the pot.
Lightning struck in the form of the , and Thomsen went crazy.
"Yeahhhhhhh!!!" he shouted. "That's how we do it in Europe!!!"
Thomsen was warned for excessive celebration, but he had reason to shout after the suck and re-suck doubled him to over 40,000 chips.
Oh, and don't worry about Walls. He's still atop our leader board with 162,500 to his name.
Jason Reisenberg raised from early position and Ronnie Bardah reraised when the table folded around to his big blind. Reisenberg shoved for 8,600 total and Bardah called to put him at risk.
Showdown
Reisenberg:
Bardah:
There was no funny stuff on board, and Reisenberg's found his double back to 18,000.
Some curiousness from the moustachioed mind of Mike Piper.
We caught the action with Piper and his one opponent checking the 
flop and thus seeing a turn for free. Piper bet out 5,100 into the rather small pot and his opponent called. They saw an river and this time Piper bet 7,100; again, his opponent made the call.
Cards on their backs, and Piper's opponent flipped 
for an overpair that had morphed into a flush. Piper - by the by wearing a rather awesome linen suit with short trousers, AC/DC style - could only boast a rather esoteric 
for a pair of fours, and dropped to 11,000.
[EDIT] - Piper seems to have doubled up since that hand - we strolled by his table and happened to notice he was back up to 25,000. It must be the power of the Motorhead moustache.
On the flop of 
, a player in middle position checked to Blake Cahail. He bet 1,300 and his opponent check-raised to 3,000. Cahail called.
The turn brought the and Cahail's opponent fired 5,000. Cahail called.
The river completed the board with the 
and action was checked to Cahail, who fired 9,000. His opponent mucked and Cahail moved to 60,000 in chips.
On the flop of , Alexander Kostritsyn bet 3,000 before his opponent raised to 10,000. Kostritsyn made the call.
The turn brought the and Kostritsyn check-called a bet of 10,000 before seeing the land on the river. Kostritsyn checked again and his opponent checked behind after a minute in the tank. Kostritsyn tabled the 
and his opponent mucked.
Kostritsyn moved to 106,000 in chips.
Jean-Robert Bellande was in middle position and raised to 800. He was called by the player in the cutoff as well as the button and Oliverla Pinlao in the small blind.
The flop came . The small blind checked and Bellande bet 2,000. His only taker was the player in the cutoff.
Bellande and his opponent checked through the on the turn as well as the 
on the river. Bellande mucked after seeing his opponent's and is now down to 37,000.
We found Roland de Wolfe calling a 1,500 bet from the gent in the small blind on a 
flop. Two other players who had made it as far as the flop folded behind, and they went heads up to the turn.
Both players checked the turn, and they checked again on the river. De Wolfe tabled a somewhat unlikely 
for a flopped straight.
De Wolfe is up to 52,000 after that.
