Mats Gavatin just won a tidy pot from Christian Toboc, who found himself facing a critical bet having raised perma-opener Lechich to 13,000 preflop. Left hand side neighbour Gavatin moved all in for a total of 32,300. With only about 10k more than that in his own stack, it was a big call - and he made it, shaking his head when he saw the in his opponent's hand. He flipped and waited while the board came out:
Flop: Noticing that Mats Gavatin looked a little tense, Tony G tried to set him at ease, "You have Aces - enjoy it! It's like a 100m race but you get a 50m head start."
Turn and river: and he doubles through leaving Toboc facing the felt.
Over at the feature TV table, Jon "Pearljammer" Turner has picked up a couple of pots since dinner break. He was down to 20,000 and has increased his stack to 35,000.
At the very start of the post-dinner break level, 'Stormin' Sam Norman (okay, I made up that nickname) doubled up in sweaty palm circumstances, his tournament life dependent on a winning a coin flip against Ali Khaitan with versus .
The flop was pretty harmless, and although the turn had a few blood-thirsty sickos quietly chanting for the case Six, it failed to arrive on the river.
Tino Lechich raises to 4k preflop twice in a row, the second time facing an unfoldable-to re-raise all in from Kylmala. He called with and Kylmala was balancing his tournament life on . People yet again couldn't help themselves telling him they'd folded one of his cards, and Tony G was saying something about it being, "Bike time!"
It was indeed - the board came and Kylmala headed for the rail.
The dinner break seems to have somewhat loosened Tony G up - he's talking up a storm currently and when he won his own preflop all-in race (his Eights against Dan Shak's A-K offsuit) we got to hear about it. "All right! Tony G is in the House!"
Action has once again filled the poker room, as the post-dinner rush of blood to the stomach seems to have encouraged a bit of gamble in the players. Jeff Buffenbarger, seconds after re-raising all-in (with pocket Fives; shown to folding original raiser Patrik Antonius) for the first time, re-raised again preflop.
This time there had been a 4k bet in front of him from Horst Koch, and he made it 24k on the button. Small blind Barny Boatman then moved in for about that amount. Koch dwelled for a respectable length of time and passed leaving Buffenbarger to reveal against Barny's . "I thought you had a pair...but I couldn't get off it," Barny said as the board came out disconnected and Queen-high, no Ten. They shook hands and both left the room (the table immediately broke).
A couple of minutes before the dinner break ended, I had a brief chat with Jamie Gold in the bathroom.
"I'm about average," the 2006 WSOP world champion said as he washed his hands. "I have about 70,000 and feel great despite the fact I'm not getting cards."