Action folded to Joe Baldwin who raised to 135,000 from the cutoff. Eddy Scharf called on the button and Jeffrey "jpapola" Papola moved all in from the small blind. Both Baldwin and Scharf released and Papola took down the pot.
Eddy Scharf was getting short and in a previous hand he open-shoved but received no callers.
He found a customer the next hand.
William Haydon opened to 150,000 on the button and Scharf moved in for an extra 435,000 from the big blind. Haydon thought a bit before making the call.
Showdown
Scharf:
Haydon:
The flop was fairly dry, but on the turn was interesting. It gave Scharf a set, yes, but it gave Haydon four outs to a straight. Haydon made a useless pair of queens when the rivered though, and Scharf doubled to 1,200,000 chips.
From under the gun, Joe Baldwin raised to 135,000 before Jeffrey Papola reraised all in for 1.465 million total. The tournamnt staff pulled in 130,000 from Papola's stack and not 135,000, but the mistake went unnoticed. Either way, the extra 5,000 wasn't that big of a difference.
Baldwin tanked for several minutes and the flicked his hand into the muck with one of his T25,000 chips and Papola won the pot.
From under the gun, Jarred Solomon raised to 120,000 and got a call from Jeffrey Papola in the big blind. The flop came down and Papola checked. Solomon fired 180,000 and Papola called.
The turn card was the and Papola checked. Solomon tanked for some time before firing 550,000. Papola wasted little time in folding and Solomon scooped the pot. He moved to 1.8 million while Papola dropped to 1.4 million.
Action folded to Jeffrey "jpapola" Papola who limped in from the cutoff. William Haydon completed from the small blind and Joe Baldwin checked his option in the big blind.
The flop fell and Haydon led for 85,000. Baldwin got out of the way and Papola raised to 210,000. Haydon didn't budge though, instead he re-raised to 465,000 forcing Papola to fold.