In a five-way limped pot, Gavin Eke bet the flop in Pot-Limit Omaha for 8,000 and only Dominik Nitsche called from the button. The 5Ad] fell on the turn and Eke announced a bet of 30,000 for half of his stack, Nitsche quickly got out of the way. The last half an hour had not been as kind to the German and his stack dwindled all the way down to just 90,000.
Mohammed Afiouni limped in from under the gun and Daniel Hachem raised the pot to get a call by Afiouni. On the flop , both players checked and did so again on the turn. Hachem then bet the river for 20,000 and Afiouni quickly folded tens and fours face up.
The final table of the last nine is set and the button starts on Michael Seymour. From now on, the game type changes every orbit between No-Limit Hold'em and Pot-Limit Omaha. Below are the seating assignments of the finalists
From under the gun, Brett Whitney moved all in and Domink Nitsche folded. Mohammed Afiouni asked "how much does he have" and then announced the call to have both players out of the blinds fold quickly. Whitney was all in for 54,000 chips and needed an ace or diamonds to survive.
Whitney:
Afiouni:
"Bring us to the final, mo", Daniel Hachem said and that was exactly what happened with the board running out to bust Whitney in 10th place.
Linh Tran doubled up a short stacked Michael Seymour getting it in with the versus the only to see Seymour flop a boat on a board.
One hand later, it was Tran's turn to double, as he got in a preflop raising war with with Doug Corning and ended up all in with the versus Corning's .