Right after the dinner break we saw Matt Stout get up from his table and leave the room. We could barely write down the board and got the rest of the action from Keven Stammen and David Benyamine.
Stout raised pre flop to 400 and Naselli called. The flop was and Stout bet 600 which got raised to 1,800, he followed with the call. On the turn the appeared and Stout checked to Naselli who bet 5,000. Stout moved all-in and got called by , his was drawing dead and Naselli raked in another pot. He now has 34,000 chips and is amongst the big stack in the room.
Former EPT Barcelona Champion Kent Lundmark is having some fun today. He has just eliminated Remi Marlair after a flop all-in and call. The board ran out and Lundmark now has 37,000 after finishing with the winning hand.
Anton Wigg raised from the under the gun position to 500, action got folded to John Eames who three-bet to 1,350 with 8,675 chips behind. From the small blind November Nine bubble John Hewitt inquired about Eames's stack and than four-bet to 2.800. Wigg snap folded his cards and after a couple of seconds Eames decided to shove. Hewitt shrugged and called.
John Hewitt
John Eames
The board ran out and Eames is back to having a very healthy stack while Hewitt is left behind with a workable 50 big blinds.
Action folded to Soren Karamalikis in the small blind and he raised to 625. In the big blind was Jonathan Karamalikis and he reraised to 1,400. Kongsgaard called.
The flop came down and Kongsgaard checked. Karamalikis bet 1,650 and Kongsgaard made the call to see the turn.
The turn was the and Kongsgaard checked again. Karamalikis took a moment and then bet out 3,300. Kongsgaard called.
The landed on the river and Kongsgaard checked a third time. After a brief pause, Karamalikis fired 4,900. Kongsgaard tanked and then made the call. Karamalikis tabled the for top pair and Kongsgaard mucked.
With the board reading , Jamie Rosen and one other player checked to Peter Jetten in last position. He fired 1,000 and only Rosen made the call to see the put two pair on the board on the river. Rosen checked and Jetten checked behind.
"Two high," announced Rosen.
"What?" questioned Jetten with surprise.
"Two high," repeated Rosen, flashing the .
Jetten then tabled the winner with the , having won the hand after the board double paired on the river to counterfeit Rosen.
Action folded to the Marc Bariller in the small blind and he raised to 500. Jason Mercier reraised all in from the big blind for 6,125. Bariller called all in for less at 4,125.
Mercier held the and Bariller the . The flop, turn and river ran out and Mercier sent over the chips to double up Bariller.
We caught the action on the turn when there was already 11,000 in the pot. After the player in the big blind checked to the Spaniard he shoved for 9,175 on a board. The opponent of the WSOP Main Event winner tanked for a long time and eventually folded leaving himself with 19,000 chips. Mortensen is up to 21,000 and doing very well.
Crippled on the previous hand, Jason Mercier moved all in for 1,350 from the small blind after action folded to him. The big blind folded and Mercier scooped up the blinds plus antes.