It took the better part of one hour but finally the High Roller is in the money! Most of the players had decent stacks but it was Jeffrey Cormier who was unfortunately feeling the pressure. He was able to pick up the blinds and antes after shoving quite a few times and he showed some hands when no one had called where he wanted a call, hands such as AK where he was prepared to flip but George James was the only player who had a pair and they were deuces and he decided to avoid the risk.
The fatal hand came when Cormier once again picked up a hand, 
, and he put his chips into the middle, but this time George James made the call holding a stronger hand than deuces: he had 
.
The flop came 
and Cormier picked up a couple of extra outs. The turn was the 
which didn’t help him out at all, and the river was a brick, the 
. After the dealer counted the stacks Cormier was still left with 5,000 chips which he put in the very next hand after only having seen one card. Eric Afriat raised it up to 75,000 and everyone else folded.
Cormier: 
Afriat: 
The flop came 
and Afriat paired up with his four. The 
turn and 
river were of no help to Cormier and he exited the room, just shy of the money.
The players have gone on break and it will give us a chance to update the full chip counts after the break.
The bubble hand:
