Shaun Needham raised to 2,500 from the cutoff, Nicolas Levi called from the button, and the small blind re-raised to 10,000. Needham moved all in for 19,200 total, Levi moved all in over the top of him for 37,000 or so, and the small blind folded. Needham turned up and Levi showed . The flop was , the turn was the , and the river was the , Levi shipping more than half his stack to his right-side neighbor.
The uncomfortably shortstacked Owen Lock has finally bitten the dust, his button raise with being looked up by Csaba Kuremszki and his in the small blind before the saw the remaining 5.9k chips fly in, Csaba shrugging his shoulders as he bet.
At the featured TV table, the topic of conversation has shifted to Jessica Simpson. Daniel Negreanu is telling his tablemates that are not familiar with Simpson's exploits about her confusion over Chicken of the Sea tuna fish. She could not figure out if it was chicken or tuna.
As I followed the snail trail of cameramen as they dribbled through the rail and towards Table Tran, I was met with a board of and an all-in of 5,800 from Tero Salonen.
Kenny Tran pretty much beat his opponent into the pot and proudly flipped over , his kicker dominating that of Tero's .
However, even with one card to come, anything can happen in this cruel game, and so it was with great amazement (although I fear the sickos on the rail throughly enjoyed the excitement of it all) that the dealer slammed down a wicked to give the shortstack the pot.
Tran jumped up in frustration, nearly knocking me sideways in the process, and left the table to walk around the balcony. Once composed, he returned to action, but the 35k stack sailing south will certainly sting for a good while yet.
Over at the featured TV table, Daniel Negreanu is running lines from Eddie Murphy's "Delirious." Kid Poker is doing a spot on imitation of Eddie Murphy's impersonation of James Brown and Luther Vandros.
The tournament is over for one Michael ‘Don’t Call Me Beppe’ Greco. The ex-soapstar who had been playing a focused short stacked game, had come to the crucial race which marks a turning point in a tournament, and turned downwards, finding his Jacks vs. A-K confrontation going against him and leaving him with under 4,000 – which went in sharpish with his . Julien Bertazzon gave him a spin with .
One of those discussions in which players not involved in the coup try to join the fun by talking about what they’ve folded ensued.
“I passed an Ace,” said one player.
“Me too,” added one of the blinds.
“I folded a Jack,” offers Jamie Gold.
“I passed pocket Tens,” deadpans Jon Shoreman.
“Really?”
“No.”
However many bullets Greco did or didn’t have to dodge, he was hit with the first one fired – the popping straight out on the flop. A bit of a headshake and a weary walk later and we’re down one more.
Moments later, Jonathan Shoreman was eliminated by Theo Jorgensen.
On a board of , Jonathan Shoreman moved all in and Theo Jorgensen called. Jorgensen showed , having turned two pair against Shoreman’s . The river was the , and Shoreman hit the rail.