Richard Munro lost a few pots earlier on but he climbed right back on that horse and has steadily built his stack back up to well over 200,000 to challenge for the lead again.
A flavor of how he did it is reflected in a recent hand where there was an open to 4,800 from the lady two seats to his right in early position and after a quick glance at his cards Muro announced, “Twelve eight.” and threw out raising chips to make it 12,800.
The blinds and everybody else got out of his way and he picked up some more chips to add to his stack.
We do have another Irishman left in the tournament and it is Sean Byrne. He flatted a raise to 6,500 from the cutoff and the big blind called as well to see the flop. The big blind check-folded, the initial raiser continued for 8,500 and Byrne made it 19,000 to go. The villain now moved all in for about 100,000 and that won the pot. Byrne is still at two times the average though.
We were called to a table by one of the player who wanted to share an important hand. Apparently Ronald Blount went all in with on a flop against pocket tens. The turn provided an to improve his opponent to a full house but the river ensured the double up via straight flush! Nice hand Sir.
After a strong start Simon Trumper is sliding down the leader board. He is being hampered by a big stack to his right and in one hand where the big stack limped and another player raised Trumper laid down .
He would have had to go with all his chips, he explained, or fold and he chose the latter only to see the flop was and the big stack ended up winning with .
Another hand he played was when he had against what turned out to be but he missed the flop and folded.
Apart from that the blinds and antes have been eating away at his stack and he is now down to 26,000. He will need to make some moves soon.
Sammy Farha hadn’t been able to get anything much going all day and now he has been eliminated.
He was heads up to the flop of and both players checked. All the money went in on the turn .
Farha had top pair but his opponent had flopped the set with . The river was a blank and Farha couldn’t repeat his hot streak from last night and his tournament was at an end.
Greg Genge limped from under the gun, John MacNaughton raised to 8,000 and the big blind moved all in for 37,000. Genge reshoved for 150,000 as biggest stack out of the three and MacNaughton snap called. Turn over your cards please:
Big blind:
Genge:
MacNaughton:
"One time please," Genge said. His wish wasn't granted as the board ran out and the monster pot knocked out the big blind. MacNaughton doubled up for 111,200 and he is our new chip leader. A little consolation for Genge is the fact that the beneficiary of the hand is from Alberta / Canada as well. "It's a cooler no matter what I do," he said and updated the chip count with his smart phone.
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flop. The big blind check-folded, the initial raiser continued for 8,500 and Byrne made it 19,000 to go. The villain now moved all in for about 100,000 and that won the pot. Byrne is still at two times the average though.
on a 
flop against pocket tens. The turn provided an 
to improve his opponent to a full house but the 
river ensured the double up via straight flush! Nice hand Sir.
and the big stack ended up winning with 
.
against what turned out to be 
and both players checked. All the money went in on the turn 
.
and the monster pot knocked out the big blind. MacNaughton doubled up for 111,200 and he is our new chip leader. A little consolation for Genge is the fact that the beneficiary of the hand is from Alberta / Canada as well. "It's a cooler no matter what I do," he said and updated the chip count with his smart phone.
