Van Marcus' new-found chips are giving him some ammunition to fire at pots. After Cliff Josephy opened for 70,000 and was called by Sorel Mizzi, Marcus called a pot-sized reraise (316,000 by our gorilla math). Josephy and Mizzi quickly folded.
The action developed very quickly between Van Marcus and Samuel Ngai. Marcus opened with a pot-sized raise to 84,000. Ngai was next to act and called "re-pot", which was enough to put himself all in. All other passed to Marcus, who quickly called.
Marcus:
Ngai:
Single-suited aces for Marcus against single-suited kings for Ngai. The board rolled out a relatively benign . Marcus dragged the pot with jacks full of aces; Ngai headed for the cage to collect $43,539.
Palevic and Mizzi both limp in from early position and Austin checks his option in the big blind.
The flop came . Action checked to Sorel who bet 40,000. Austin got out of the way and Palevic made the call. The turn brought the and both players checked.
The river was the and both players checked it down.
Richard Austin, Rifat Palevic, Sorel Mizzi , Dan Hindin all limped into the pot. Jetten completes in the small blind and Filipe Ramos checked his option.
The six players saw a of and action checked around.
The turn brought the 6d. Action checked to Rifat who bet 75,000. All other players folded their hands until Ramos announced a raise of 225,000 from the big blind.
Not afraid of the check raise, Palevic then reraised pot to 845,000. Ramos called all in.
Ramos:
Palevic:
Both players had the straight, but Palevic was redrawing to the better spade flush.
The river was a blank in the , resulting in a chopped pot.
Sorel Mizzi raised to 55,000 from the cut off and Dan Hindin reraised pot from the button. The blinds released their hands, as did Mizzi, allowing Hindin to win the pot.
Action folded around to Peter Jetten who raised to 55,000 in middle position. Richard Austin made the call from the cut off and two players saw flop of . Jetten bet 80,000 and took down the pot
Richard Austin continues to chip up in impressive fashion. He was part of a four-way limped flop that came down . Two checks from the blinds prompted Van Marcus to bet 55,000. Only Austin called.
Marcus checked the turn over to Austin. Austin deliberated for thirty seconds before pushing out a bet of 175,000. Marcus decided to look for a better spot and folded.
The first big pot of the final table has been won by Rifat Palevic. After Richard Austin limped in, Palevic raised pot to 90,000. Sorel Mizzi called that raise, chasing everyone else but Austin out of the pot. Austin called as well for a three-way flop of . Palevic took the pot down with a bet of 258,000.