With just 164,000, Michael Watson was in desperate need of a double-through and eagerly searching for spots to push. That moment came on the button, where he slid his entire stack over the line with . Taking the blinds uncontested would have been a fine result, but a stubborn Jason Mercier had other ideas and made the call with from the small blind.
The flop was a cracking turn-out for Watson who had his man drawing to just two outs. A turn and river was too little too late for the San Remo EPT champion and Sherlock Holmes' sidekick doubled through.