Once again Tommy Le raised preflop to 75,000 and Stephane Tayar moved all in for 265,000. Action folded to Le and he made the call.
Le:
Tayar:
The flop was quite interesting when it came , giving Tayar top set but providing Le with a flush draw. The on the turn gave Le even more outs with a straight draw. In fact, Le supporters could be heard calling out cards for the river that would give him the win.
When the came on the river Tayar and his supporters erupted in celebration. Tayar went from the short stack to 575,000 while Le drops to 307,000 and is the new short stack.
Tommy Le has come back from the dinner break in the same aggressive frame of mind with which he concluded the previous level. He opened the first three hands with raises. On the first Trevor Pope reraised and forced a fold. Le took the blinds the second time.
Then, on the third hand, Le raised to 75,000 from middle position, and Stephane Tayar reraised all in for his last 110,000. It folded around and Le called.
Tayar
Le
The board went , and Tayar doubled up to 265,000. Le now has 572,000.
We're seeing a lot of raise-and-take-it happening here as we approach the dinner break that is scheduled for the end of this level. It has been L.J. Klein and Tommy Le doing most of the raising and taking, with Klein having crept up past Le and into the chip lead.
Klein is pushing up close to the one-million chip mark at present, while Le is around 820,000.
Yet another double-up from a short stack to report. Seems more often than not since we've gone nine-handed we've seen the little guys making what they need to stay alive.
In this case, Trevor Pope was the short one, up against Stephane Tayar. They'd built a pot already by the time the came. Then Tayar bet, and Pope called with the last of his stack. Pope had and Tayar .
The turn was the and the river the , and Pope's aces held. Pope's cheering section -- including Annette Obrestad -- gave a gleeful roar of excitement following their man's triumph.
Pope's up to 556,000 while Tayar is way down under 100,000 now.
Joerg Engels opened for 65,000 from the button, and L.J. Klein called from the big blind. Both checked the flop. The turn brought the and a bet of 100,000 from Klein. Engel called.
The river was the . Klein bet 150,000 this time. Engels fiddled with his chips for about a half-minute, then let it go. Klein is up to 735,000, while Engels has slipped back to the middle of the pack with 650,000.
After sitting on the short stack for much of the early part of the day, Tommy Le is our current chip leader with just under 800,000.
, giving Tayar top set but providing Le with a flush draw. The 
on the turn gave Le even more outs with a straight draw. In fact, Le supporters could be heard calling out cards for the river that would give him the win.
came on the river Tayar and his supporters erupted in celebration. Tayar went from the short stack to 575,000 while Le drops to 307,000 and is the new short stack.
, and Tayar doubled up to 265,000. Le now has 572,000.
against L.J. Klein's 
, and the 
came. Then Tayar bet, and Pope called with the last of his stack. Pope had 
, and Pope's aces held. Pope's cheering section -- including Annette Obrestad -- gave a gleeful roar of excitement following their man's triumph.
flop. The turn brought the 
. Klein bet 150,000 this time. Engels fiddled with his chips for about a half-minute, then let it go. Klein is up to 735,000, while Engels has slipped back to the middle of the pack with 650,000.