Sam Youssef arrived late and has now departed early. After Youssef raised to 650, Steve Topakas made the call before Billy Seri moved all in over the top. Youssef called for his last chips as Topakas folded .
Youssef:
Seri:
The flop was spread to break the heart of Topakas as Seri's kings remained in front. The turn was the and river the to send Youssef sailing as Seri moves up to 11,000 chips.
Chris Chronis is an early casualty from this evening's event as we just caught him pushing his last 400 chips in with with the big blind making the call with .
The board ran out to send Chronis up to the high-stakes cash games.
A late arrival from his victory in the PokerNetwork Live vs Online Challenge, Peter Aristidou has gone straight to work looking for victory in the Tony G Shootout.
He's already up to 6,500 taking down some early pots as he establishes dominance at his table.
Even though this is a freezeout, the feature table is certainly playing it as if they have nothing to lose.
So far the table of death has had heaps of straddling, blind raises, and bizarre action. It won't be long till we lose some of those guys.
In a recent hand Matthew Kirk shoved all in for about 2,000 and found a call out of middle position.
Kirk tabled his expecting to be in some trouble but found himself surprisingly good up against .
The flop of hit neither player, but the spiked on the turn to leave Kirk facing elimination. The river arrived just in time to save him though and move him back up to starting stack.