He's not far off, to be fair, but the title of Current Chip Leader goes to young Dutchman Constant Rijkenberg. Watch this space...
came out on top of his opponent's
on the
board, to keep him in the game on around 80,000.
Level: 17
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 500
, check-called another 80,000 when the turn fell
, and then checked one last time when the river fell
. Flink moved all in, prompting Silverman to snap-call all in for 112,000 and open his hand:
. Silverman flopped the second nut straight and then check-called all the way to double up to more than 500,000 chips. Flink went to break disgusted; he may not realize that he still has roughly 20,000 chips.
against Fabio Zappietro's
. Ever the optimist, he shouted, "Jack!" all the way down every street of the
board, but bowed out gracefully with a handshake when it failed to come.