We've been watching a series of all-in preflop raises with no calls over the last few hands, with Adam White and Pekka Ikonen being the most recent beneficiaries.
With blinds 20,000/40,000 and 5,000 antes at our still nine-handed table, a preflop raise with no takers nets a player a 100,000-chip addition to his stack.
Shawn Busse -- 2.2 million
Owen Crowe -- 2 million
Chaun Shi -- 980,000
Ilya Andreev -- 900,000
Wenlong Jin -- 850,000
Allan B?kke -- 850,000
Jason Mann -- 790,000
Pekka Ikonen -- 450,000
Adam White -- 370,000
Adam White raised to 75,000 from early position, and Wenlong Jin, sitting to White's left, reraised all in for 394,000 total. The table folded back around to White who made the call, tabling . Jin turned over .
The best starting hand held, as the community cards came , and Jin doubled to about 800,000. Meanwhile, White is now the table's short stack with less than 150,000.
Allan B?kke raised to 70,000 from the cutoff and got one caller in Pekka Iknonen from the big blind. The flop came all diamonds -- -- and Ikonen quickly checked. B?kke continued for 80,000, and Ikonen let it go.
With about 20 minutes to go in the level, B?kke has about 900,000 and Ikonen 750,000.