A short-stacked Leo Fernandez moved all in under the gun for 118,000 and action folded all the way around to Igor Kurganov, who called from the big blind.
Kurganov:
Fernandez:
Fernandez needed some help and he got it on the flop. A ten would still give Kurganov a straight, but that was not meant to be as the bricked on the turn followed by the on the river.
Paul Newey was hanging in there short stacked for quite some time, but just now he found his faith in an unlucky river card. Erik Seidel (small blind) and big blind (Paul Newey) got their chips in the middle before the flop.
Newey had the dominating hand with but would get rivered by Seidel's . The board ran out and Newey made his exit.
Dan Colman doubled up once, but in the end, it wasn't enough. Down to around 40,000 again, he shoved from the cutoff. Big blind Erik Seidel called with and Colman turned over .
The flop favored Seidel but the on the turn gave Colman a flush draw. The on the river, however, was a blank and Colman hit the rail.
When we got to the table, there was 261,000 already pulled into the pot and a flop of . The action escaped us, but we do know that Stephen Chidwick got his stack of 209,000 all in against Igor Kurganov.
Kurganov:
Chidwick:
It was a cooler flop as Kurganov flopped two pair only to run into Chidwick's set. Neither the turn nor river was the king Kurganov needed and he sent over the vast majority of his stack to Chidwick.