Action folded around to Shaun Deeb in the cutoff (essentially the button, as Sami Kelopuro was eliminated in the small blind on the hand before), and he made it 7,500 to go. Mercier made the call from the small blind and the two saw a flop.
Mercier passed the first option to Deeb who made a continuation bet of 13,500. Mercier called once more and the turn brought the .
Another check from Mercier sent the action to Deeb who upped the ante to 30,000. Mercier took one last peek at his hole cards before eventually tossing them into the muck.
"Nice bluff," Mercier chided.
"No bluff," Deeb replied as he turned over the . "I had it," he said with a laugh.
Two more players have been eliminated in quick succession. First, Sami Kelopuro was eliminated holding on a board against Eric Dalby's after the river brought a bricky .
Then on the table next door, Erik Seidel put his last few chips in with against Theo Jorgensen's which outdrew Seidel on a board.
(Table 1)
Seat 1: Justin Smith
Seat 2: Jolyne Thompson
Seat 3: Chris Ferguson
Seat 4: Chris Bjorin
Seat 5: Tomi Nyback
Seat 6: Stephen Ladowski
Seat 7: Sorel Mizzi
Seat 8: Erik Friberg
Seat 9: Bruno Fitoussi
(Table 2)
Seat 1: Mike McDonald
Seat 2: Eric Dalby
Seat 3: Dave Penly
Seat 4: Padraig Parkinson
Seat 5: Alessio Isaia
Seat 6: Shaun Deeb
Seat 7: Sami Kelopuro
Seat 8: Jason Mercier
Seat 9: Max Pescatori
(Table 3)
Seat 1: Allen Cunningham
Seat 2: Neil Channing
Seat 3: Donnacha O'Dea
Seat 4: Stephan Kjerstad
Seat 5: Ilkka Koskinen
Seat 6: Joe Beevers
Seat 7: Erik Seidel
Seat 8: Theo Jorgensen
Seat 9: Alex Kravchenko
Jolyne Thompson was sitting on a micro 6,000 stack and moved it all in from the cut-off. Max Pescatori reraised to 10,000 from the next seat and that was enough to force out the blinds leaving us heads-up.
Thompson:
Pescatori:
The board came making the nut flush for Thompson and moving her to a short-stacked 15,000.
Chris Bjorin has just eliminated M.H. Aval from the tournament to move to 136,000 in chips. Bjorin has just about doubled up from the 70,000 in chips he started the day with. With the win, he's moved into the top ten on our leaderboard.