The British are really putting on a good show here today, and the latest beneficiary of chips is Jake Cody. In the last hand, he played a heads-up pot with Giuseppe Sammartino, whom they call "Dario". The board ran out , and it looks like Cody got bets in on all three streets. And it turned out to be three streets of value once Sammartino called his final bet of 95,000. Cody tabled pocket kings, and Sammartino flashed pocket jacks on the way into the muck, honestly doing well not to lose more.
Cody is putting himself in the hunt with the big stacks, and we've got him over 800,000 now. That's more than double where he was just a level ago.
We are now down to our final two ladies (Maria Ho and Melanie Weisner) after the elimination of Liv Boeree. The person responsible for making our tournament that little bit less aesthetically pleasing to the eye, was Jeremy Kottler. Boeree moved all-in over a Max Silver raise with and Kottler called with and she was sent to the pay desk.
Matt Waxman raised to 16,000 from early position and Tom Bedell seemed unsure what to do in the big blind. He eventually elected to call but you sensed his chips were not going to be alongside him too much longer.
Flop:
Tom Bedell checked to Waxman, he bet 26,000 and in went all of Bedell's chips.
"I call," said Waxman.
Showdown
Waxman
Bedell
Turn: & River
It has been a good run for Bedell but all good things come to an end. The dealer went to ship Bedell's stacks of chips to Waxman, "break them all up. I like to stack them myself," said Waxman.
Carbone Damiano has been on the short stack for a good while, and he didn't really have much hope of surviving once he got to the featured table, if we're honest. And naturally, it was Chris Moorman that did him in. Damiano got his last few big blinds in with , and Moorman's was drawing live for the knockout.
The board ran out ... , and Damiano could not dodge elimination on the river. He's out, and Moorman stacks more chips. It's still very hard to count him down, but tentatively, he's got -- like, heaps. Maybe 2 million. We'll have to ask him.
Thibaud Guenegou raised to 16,000 in the hijack and Ilan Boujenah moved all-in for a little over 100,000 in the next seat and Guenegou called.
Showdown
Guenegou
Boujenah
What happened next was a little bit like when I was told Father Christmas didn't exist.
Flop: Turn: [brick] River:
A distraught Boujenah just lay on the floor surrounded by his friends while the hand sunk in.
We have to confess we love watching Freddy Deeb play poker, but his run has come to an end here today. The action was over on the featured table, so once again details were hard to snag. What we do know is that the board showed , and all of Deeb's chips went in on the turn. He was working with , and Chris Moorman showed down the much better . Deeb was dead to six outs, and the river was not one of them.
As he was walking past us to the payout desk, Deeb was lamenting his plight: "Guy plays every hand. What can I do?"
Moorman is awfully active, and he's got the chips to do it. We're working on getting a count for him, but he's involved in another pot as we speak...
Andrew Moseley raised to 18,000 from middle position. Liv Boeree called from the button, Elio Fox called from the small blind and Jeremy Kottler called from the big blind.
The flop came down and Fox fired 50,000. Kottler folded, but Moseley wanted to play for a little more and raised to 125,000. Everyone folded and Moseley won the hand.
Action folded to Tony G in the hijack seat and he raised to 21,000. His only customer was Matt Waxman out of the big blind and he called to see the flop. Waxman checked and Tony G fired 30,000. Waxman folded.
On the next hand, Tony G made it 22,000 to go from middle position. Shawn Buchanan called from the hijack seat and everyone else folded. The flop came down and Tony G fired 50,000. Buchanan folded and Tony G won the pot for the second hand in a row.
, and it looks like Cody got bets in on all three streets. And it turned out to be three streets of value once Sammartino called his final bet of 95,000. Cody tabled pocket kings, and Sammartino flashed pocket jacks on the way into the muck, honestly doing well not to lose more.
and Kottler called with 
and she was sent to the pay desk.
& River 
, and Moorman's 
... 
Turn: [brick] River: 
, and all of Deeb's chips went in on the turn. He was working with 
, and Chris Moorman showed down the much better 
. Deeb was dead to six outs, and the river 
flop. Waxman checked and Tony G fired 30,000. Waxman folded.