James Dempsey raises to 4,000 on the button and Adrien Allain calls. The flop reads , Allain checks and Dempsey checks behind. The turn brings the into play and again both players check. Guess what happened when the made an appearance on the river? That is correct, they both checked again.
Allain announced, "queen high" but is beaten by the of Dempsey.
Max Silver has been extremely aggressive in his style of play today but even he does not get too frisky with . it is a good job too because Terrance Chan showed .
Richard Toth has defeated Anton Makiievskyi heads-up to advance to tomorrow's ten-handed final table.
Makiievskyi was down to 11 big blinds and in the big blind. He called all-in with after Toth shoved with . The board ran to make the Hungarian a back-door flush.
Taylor Paur makes it 3,200 to play from the button, James Mitchell three-bets and Paur makes the call. A flop reading is greeted with an 8,000 bet from Mitchell but Paur obviously does not believe the story the Brit is telling him so raises the action to 21,500, forcing an immediate fold from the Brit.
James Demsey is heads-up with Adrien Allain and they were fairly even in chips before the Brit four-bet folded.
He raised to 4,000 from the button and faced a three-bet to 11,000 from Allain in the big blind. His response was to bump it up to 26,000, only to be shoved on for 96,000. He tank-folded, saying he had a good ace. The Frenchman rubbed salt into his wounds by flashing .
The action is on Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier and he makes it 3,300 to play. Dylan Wilkerson makes the call and it is off the the flop. Wilkerson checks, ElkY bets 4,200 and Wilkerson quickly calls.
The turn card is the and again Wilkerson checks but this time he folds as ElkY sets the price as 9,200 to play.
The board reads and Anton Makiievskyi checks over to Richard Toth. He sits completely motionless but suddenly springs into life and pushes a pile of yellow chips worth 20,000 into the middle of the felt. With already 33,000 in the pot before this bet the pot is substantial. After nearly two minutes Makiievskyi folds his hand.
Toth is in charge of this particular match-up and is giving the Ukrainian a tough time.
Terrance Chan limps in on the button and Max Silver taps the table and checks his big blind. The dealer puts out the flop, Silver checks, Chan bets 2,000, Silver check-raises to 4,600 and Chan relinquishes his hand. Nice and simple but effective from the young Brit.