Just the tail end of a pot, but we know you're pining for news about Constant Rijkenberg. When we went to check on him, he was involved in a pot on the river, heads-up. The board showed , and Rijkenberg had led out with a bet of 56,500 before we arrived. His opponent spent along while soaking in the tank, but he eventually surrendered to let Rijkenberg take it down.
The Dutchman has crossed another milestone with that pot, moving his stack up to 325,000.
Melanie Weisner has been grinding her stack of ~50,000 chips for the bulk of the day, and she's just found a spot to stick it all in there.
It began with Weisner opening to 4,400 from middle position. Fernando Gomez three-bet her to 11,000 two seats over, and action folded back around to the lady. After a pause to make sure, she shoved in, and Gomez instantly called.
Showdown
Weisner:
Gomez:
The two grinned at each other. "I hated that," Weisner said about the snap-call.
"That call sure sounded like aces," the player between them said. The board ran out uneventfully: . Chop it up.
Sergey Tikhonov fired a bet of 8,500 that was called by reigning champion James Bord on the board of . The river paired the board with the and Tikhonov checked. Bord took a minute and then bet with all of his chips for 42,200. Tikhonov took a few moments, but then folded his hand. Bord showed the .
"Absolute champion," said James Dempsey. "Absolute champion."
Action folded to Liv Boeree on the button and she raised to 4,500. In the big blind, Matt Waxman made the call.
The flop came down and Waxman checked. Boeree bet 6,100 and Waxman made the call to see the land on the turn. Waxman checked again. Boeree upped her bet to 12,000 and slid it out. Waxman called.
After the landed on the river, Waxman checked. Boeree studied him for a few brief moments and then bet 24,000. Waxman made the call.
Boeree tabled the and Waxman mucked with a pained look on his face.
From the hijack seat, Lari Sihvo raised to 4,000. Patrik Antonius called from the big blind and the flop came down . Antonius checked and Sihvo bet 5,200. Antonius put in a check-raise to 13,000 and Sihvo made the call.
The turn card was the and Antonius fired 22,000. Sihvo didn't take too long to make the call and see the land on the river. Antonius took some time to himself. He eventually fired a bet worth 27,000. Sihvo called.
Antonius tabled the and Sihvo slammed his hand on the table in disgust. "You're so lucky!" he said to Antonius. Sihvo then mucked his hand and Antonius scooped the pot.
We have been saying it all day, but the magical table eight seems to be where it is all happening. It will be surprising if the chip leader does not rise out of the mayhem that is table eight. With fifteen-minutes of the level remaining we watched a few hands so see who was favourite to come out of the pack.
Hand 1
Rifat Palevic raised to 5,100 in early position and Anthony Lellouche raised to 13,700 a few seats to his left. Action on Tom Bedell in the big blind whio started to think.
"zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz," snored Palevic at the top of his voice.
"Alright I call," said Bedell.
The flop was and the action checked to Lellouche who bet 16,400. Bedell folded but Palevic check-raised to 34,300 and Lellouche folded his hand after Palevic told him he had nothing but knew he had nothing either.
Hand 2
Ifergan raised to 4,200 under the gun and folded to a 10,250 Cody three-bet from the button.
Hand 3
Robert Mizrachi raised to 5,000 in early position and Hoyt Corkins called. The flop was and Mizrachi bet 5,300 before folding to a 20,000 Corkins raise.
Hand 4
Cody raised to 4,500 from the hijack and three players called. The flop was and Cody won the pot with a 12,500 c-bet and flashed the .
End Result
There were about three dozen people encircling one of the far tables, and that's usually our cue that something big is going on. When we walked over, there was a board of out on the table and a big pot piled in the center. Shawn Buchanan had bet 73,000, and Carlos Mortensen was deep in the tank. He only had about 100,000 chips left, so the call was for nearly all of it. After several minutes, he talked himself into the call.
Buchanan showed up for top set, drawing a "Wow," from a couple players at the table. Mortensen was not one of them, however. He quietly mucked, left now with just barely what he began with two days ago.