We're moving along quickly here today. Just now David Peters opened with a raise to 110,000 from the button, then Henrik Tollefsen pushed out a reraise to 270,000 from the small blind. Paul Kerr folded his big blind, and the action was back on Peters.
Peters sat for about a half-minute without moving, then said he was reraising all in. Tollefsen went into the tank, and finally after a couple of minutes quietly said "I call."
Tollefsen
Peters
Tollefsen was ahead for the moment, but after the flop he was behind and already getting out of his chair. The turn couldn't have been much worse for the Norwegian -- the , giving Peters trips. That took away Tollefsen's gutshot straight draw and meant the was no matter.
Tollefsen is out, while Peters takes the lead now with 5.5 million.
Matthew Lupton had just open-raised all in and won the blinds and antes, pushing his stack to about 760,000 when the following hand took place.
Marcel Vonk opened with a raise to 100,000 from the cutoff seat. Mehul Chaudhari then responded by reraising all in from the button for 680,000 total. It folded to Lupton in the big blind who reraised all in himself. Vonk didn't take much time to make the call and the three players showed their hands:
Lupton
Vonk
Chaudhari
The dealer delivered the community cards -- -- and Vonk's queens remained best. Two eliminations on that hand, and since Lupton had just chipped up over Chaudhari, he gets the sixth-place money while Chaudhari finishes seventh.
Vonk is now our chip leader with five players left with about 4.2 million.
Marcel Vonk opened for 100,000 from the button. Nathan Jessen, sitting in the small blind, checked his cards, gave a quick look in Vonk's direction, then reraised to 265,000. Matthew Lupton got out of the way, and the action was back on Vonk.
Vonk gazed across the table at the chips Jessen had set out, then looked down at his own stack, mentally counting. Finally, after a couple of minutes of brooding about it, he let it go.
Vonk has 2.71 million now, and Jessen 1.15 million.
The table folded around to David Peters on the button, and he decided it was his turn to put in that preflop raise, bumping it up to 77,000. However, the blinds and antes proved less simple to take this time, as Paul Kerr reraised to 230,000 from the big blind.
Action was back on Peters, who after a minute indicated he was reraising all in. Kerr sat with his hand over his mouth for a minute, then chose to let his hand go.
Peters chips to 2.77 million and back into the lead, while Kerr now has 1.49 million.
In the five hands after Espen Moen's elimination, players have been taking turns claiming the blinds and antes with preflop raises.
Paul Kerr, Marcel Vonk, Matthew Lupton, Nathan Jessen, and Mehul Chaudhari each won a hand, with the only variation on the theme coming when Chaudhari -- the short stack -- pushed all in to win his hand.
The action folded to Espen Moen in middle position, and he moved all in for about 325,000 chips. On the button, David Peters called. The blinds released.
Showdown
Moen:
Peters:
The board ran out and we've just found our eighth-place finisher, Espen Moen.
flop he was behind and already getting out of his chair. The turn couldn't have been much worse for the Norwegian -- the 
, giving Peters trips. That took away Tollefsen's gutshot straight draw and meant the 
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-- and Vonk's queens remained best. Two eliminations on that hand, and since Lupton had just chipped up over Chaudhari, he gets the sixth-place money while Chaudhari finishes seventh.
was checked until the river, when Peters fired a 325,000-chip bet. Jessen eventually called.
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