Just as Jason Mercier and Dan Smith were playing a massive set-over-set hand on the other table, Martin Jacobson was all in with against [Removed:17]'s . The jacks held up for Jacobson, and he doubled to nearly 600,000 in chips. Yan was left with 100,000, and Jacobson moved into the chip lead.
Yan was eliminated shortly thereafter, and the field was cut down to 10 players.
Dan Smith and Jason Mercier just got all of the money in on the flop. Mercier had the for middle set, but he saw the bad news when Smith rolled over the for top set of kings.
The turn was the , and the river was the . Mercier finished second best and was forced to send over the chips to Smith. Smith, who was all in for 224,500 on the flop, moved to over 500,000 in chips. Mercier was knocked back to 230,000.
We can confirm that Anita Le, who is a disability nurse who plays at Crown regularly, emerged victorious to earn a seat into the Day 1c flight. For a full recap of her victory, as well as the consolation prize her opponents received, head on over to the PokerStars Blog.
There are now 11 players left after Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier dispensed of Fabian Quoss, recent winner of the 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $100,000 Super High Roller.
Mercier raised from the cutoff seat to 8,000, Quoss three-bet to 20,000 from the big blind, Mercier moved all in for effectively 90,000, and Quoss made the call.
Quoss had the dominating hand with off suit, and Mercier had the . The board ran out , and Mercier made a Broadway straight to win the pot.
Action folded to Max Lehmanski in the cutoff and he splashed in his entire stack of 54,700. Ole Schemion was next to act on the button and made a quick call, which inspired both the blinds to get out of the way.
Lehmanski:
Schemion:
Lehmanski was in need of some help �� preferably either an ace or clubs �� but the flop provided none. The turn left Lehmanski in need of an ace on the river, but it wasn't in the cards as the blanked.