We missed the elimination of Steffen "Goose" Sontheimer, winner of the inaugural Poker Masters in Las Vegas, but we learned some details after the fact courtesy of Ben Tollerene.
According to him, a player raised in early position and another player called. Spain's Miguel Riera Suarez then three-bet from the button and Sontheimer four-bet from the big blind. The original raiser and flatter both folded, and Suarez five-bet all in. Goose called off for roughly 35,000.
Sontheimer:
Suarez:
Sontheimer failed to find a lady and hit the rail. Interestingly, the two had played a similar hand a couple of orbits earlier, though in that hand it was reversed. Suarez had the queens and managed to fold them to Sontheimer's aces.
Catching up to the action in a multiway pot, former NFL defensive lineman Richard Seymour has the action. It's been checked to him on a board showing and there is already 16,000 in the pot. Seymour moves all in for a right around 8,5000 and gets a fold from one of his opponents. The other player in the hand, Alessandro De Fenza, drops into the tank. De Fenza thinks for nearly 3 minutes as camera crews begin to swarm around the table to see what's going on.
Eventually, someone calls a clock on the player. De Fenza continues to think through the hand then finally decides to call. Seymour turns over for a full house and that allows him to double up through De Fenza who mucks his hand and send over the chips.
The former NFL star had a rocky start to his tournament, dropping nearly half his stack, but is now back over the starting stack marking sitting close to a healthy 37,000 chips.
Mike Wang was involved recently in a pot with Sergei Shchiptsov. When we arrived at the table, Wang, first to act, had shoved all in with a covering stack on Shchiptsov. Action was on the river with over 14,000 already in the pot. Shchiptsov would have to call for the remained of his stack, a bit over 10,000, if he wanted to call. He was in the tank when we approached the table. The board read
It took him a bit to make the decision but eventually, Shchiptsov called. Wang turned up his for a missed straight draw. Shchiptsov looked at the hand for a few seconds before realizing he'd won, turning over his . His pair of nines, with the pair of jacks on the board, allowed him to take down the pot while Wang was caught bluffing and forced to send over a little less than half his stack.
After a player raised to 900 under the gun, Francisco Picasso Candamo called from the cutoff and the player on the button came along. Maduka Meragal put in an additional 500 from the big blind and four players saw a flop of .
Two checks saw Candamo bet 1,600 and only Meragal called to see the turn, which they both checked.
When the completed the board on the river, Meragal led out for 2,400 and that did the trick as Candamo gave it up.