Dominik Nitsche just spoke to us on the rail after busting out at the hands of Vanessa Selbst.
The birthday boy recalled how Selbst opened on the button, Kamal Sefrioui flat-called in the small blind. Nitsche, sat in the big blind, squeezed to 425 only to see Selbst make it 1,050 to play. Sefrioui got out of the way but Nitsche put in another raise, this one to 2,300. Selbst then moved all in and Nitsche called.
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Selbst spiked a king on the flop and Nitsche could not find one of his two outs and the young German has been eliminated.
The action folds to Marvin Rettenmaier in the cutoff and he makes it 150 to play. The action folds to Jose De La Guardia in the big blind and he three-bets to 525, a bet that Rettenmaier calls.
Flop: - De La Guardia leads out with a bet of 700 and his German opponent calls.
Turn: - De La Guardia does not slow down and he bets again, this time 1,525. Rettenmaier thinks for around 20 seconds before flicking in enough chips to make the call.
River: - De La Guardia quickly checks and Rettenmaier checks behind.
"Wow!" exclaims Rettenmaier as his opponent turns over , before checking his cards and tossing them into the muck.
Sorel Mizzi has turned up fashionably late and taken his seat on Table 17. he has wasted no time in splashing around and has just tangled with Alexandrer Kostritsyn.
Joining the action after a raising war had developed between Mizzi (CO) and Kostritsyn (BB) that saw the latter make it 1,300 to play. Mizzi paused then min-raised to 2,700, forcing a fold from his opponent.
Table 17 is another one the internet kids would describe as sick. Along with the aforementioned players seated there it also has Jennifer Harman-Traniello, David Sands, Keven Stammen and Ben Lamb!
Whilst watching Isaac Haxton lose a small pot to a player, Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott walked past and confirmed his exit when we asked. "It took a royal flush to get rid of me, baby" was his explanation.
A short while after, Fabrice Soullier was another player risking the lot. He was heads-up with a player on a flop and when the action was checked to him, he moved all-in for a pot-sized 4,350. His opponent took a t least five minutes to fold. Soullier showed one card, the . He's back to a little less than his starting stack.
Fresh from busting out of the €5,300 PLO event, Phil Hellmuth is in the house and is now sat over on Table 26 with Dan Shak and Daniel Negreanu.
Hellmuth was busy on his phone, probably on Twitter, but broke off to discuss the British singer, Adele when Negreanu started singing one of her songs.
We've just found out that another overspill room exits the other side of the foyer. It holds two tables that couldn't fit in the main room.
Tony G and Maria Ho share a table and the former just lost a small pot. He made it 275 from UTG and Kirill Telezhkin was the only caller from two seats along. The flop came and G's 525 c-bet was quickly called by the Russian. The turn came and G gave up as he check-folded to a 800 bet to drop to 7,800 chips.
On the way back to the main room we noticed Marvin Rettenmaier with his hands in his head, sat at the fountain in the courtyard. Not a good sign; presumed out.
Scott Lipshutz opens to 300 from under the gun and the action folds to Tom Dwan in the cutoff. He checks his cards and calls, as does Vanessa Rousso in the big blind.
The flop comes down , Rousso checks, Lipshutz checks, Dwan makes it 700 to play only to see Rousso check-raise to 1,500. Lipshutz gets out of the way but Dwan wastes little time in moving all in for just over 5,000 chips. As quickly as Dwan had bet, Rousso had mucked.
Tom Dwan is up to 9,000 chips now after happily checking behind on two streets to get to showdown.
Michael Telker raised to 250 from UTG and Dwan and one other called to see a flop revealed. Telker continued for 525 and Dwan was the only caller. Both players checked through the turn and river and Telker tabled . He lost out to Dwan's .
On a flop reading Cliff Josephy checks, as does [Removed:247] but Mark Teltscher who has a beautiful red Ferrari parked outside the casino, bets 625. Next to act is David Vamplew on the button and he raises to 1,625 putting the action back on Josephy. He takes another look at his holecards before asking Vamplew to move his arms so he can count his stack, which is 4,500. The man known to many as "Johnny Bax" folds.
Folding is not on [Removed:250]'s hands and he check-raises to what looks like 6,000 but we did not get the chance to count it as both Teltscher and Vamplew snap-folded.
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- De La Guardia leads out with a bet of 700 and his German opponent calls.
- De La Guardia does not slow down and he bets again, this time 1,525. Rettenmaier thinks for around 20 seconds before flicking in enough chips to make the call.
- De La Guardia quickly checks and Rettenmaier checks behind.
, before checking his cards and tossing them into the muck.
. He's back to a little less than his starting stack.
and G's 525 c-bet was quickly called by the Russian. The turn came 
and G gave up as he check-folded to a 800 bet to drop to 7,800 chips.
, Rousso checks, Lipshutz checks, Dwan makes it 700 to play only to see Rousso check-raise to 1,500. Lipshutz gets out of the way but Dwan wastes little time in moving all in for just over 5,000 chips. As quickly as Dwan had bet, Rousso had mucked.
flop revealed. Telker continued for 525 and Dwan was the only caller. Both players checked through the 
turn and river and Telker tabled 
. He lost out to Dwan's 
.