John Duthie is down to just 1,600 -- he was last spotted betting 3,000 with two tens on the flop, but then folding to a raise, leaving himself just a sad pile of black 100 chips.
Manuel Spuller has doubled through "Crazy German" M��min ?zbek.
Spuller:
?zbek:
Board:
Said tablemate Luke O'Kelly to the formerly chipped up ?zbek, "What happened to all your chips?" While Spuller is up to 12,000, the former chip leader is down to 11,000.
Tony Bromham has been staging a rather impressive recovery -- he's up to 10,000 after moving all in on a flop, forcing his opponent to fold. Bonuses all round!
To the slightly surreal strains of a poker player butchering Chopsticks on the piano out in the lobby, Pokernews CFO Tony Bromham, the Man Who Pays The Bills, has suffered a bit of a disaster.
Complaining just before the break that he'd been seeing a lot of deuces and threes and not much else, he must have been delighted to finally find a hand. With Nicholas Van Der Marel and Carlo Graziano both limping in ahead of him, he raised the pot and then called Van Der Marel's all-in push for a total of 4,300 (Graziano wisely got out of their way).
Bromham:
Van Der Marel:
Board:
Van Der Marel's set of nines blew Bromham's kings out of the proverbial water, and he was down to just 2,300.
Bromham raised pot from the cutoff the next hand and got called in two spots; he moved all in for his last 500 on the turn and got one caller in the shape of, again, Nicholas Van Der Marel.
Bromham:
Van Der Marel:
Turn:
River:
Bromham lives to fight another day, and the Pokernews paychecks remain safe... For now.
I joined the action with a flop waiting patiently in the middle and around 1,800 already in the pot. Charly Le Guillou kicked off proceedings with a bet of 300 from the small blind. One player flat-called, but Jurriaan Sarink was less hospitable, making it 3,000 to play. At this point, bedlam ensued, with Peter Overdijk (button) and Le Guillou both moving all in and, after Sarink had made the call, we had ourselves a three-way showdown.
Sarink =
Le Guillou =
Overdijk =
Turn =
River =
Seeing as Le Guillou was the shortest stack, he trebled through by taking the main pot with a Broadway straight, whilst Overdijk's flopped set of jacks bettered Sarink's two pair to snap up the pot and eliminate him from the comp.