Cliff "JohnnyBax" Josephy limped into the pot from under the gun. Sorel Mizzi raised to 160,000 and the blinds got out of the way. Josephy made the call.
The flop came with both players checking it. The fell on the turn and they checked again.
The river brought the and Josephy bet 100,000 into the 380,000 pot. Mizzi threw away his hand and "JohnnyBax" raked in the chips.
Yet another limped pot at this final table, this one contested among Rifat Palevic, Sorel Mizzi and Felipe Ramos. Palevic had first action on a flop of and bet pot, 120,000, leaving himself 45,000 behind. Mizzi quickly folded. Ramos took significantly longer before he too folded.
Cards are back in the air. Updated chip counts are:
Sorel Mizzi - 1.80 million
Cliff Josephy - 1.16 million
Richard Austin - 1.08 million
Dan Hindin - 785,000
Felipe Ramos - 395,000
Rifat Palevic - 245,000
Cliff Josephy raised to 80,000 from under the gun and Richard Austin made the call from behind. Dan Hindin reraised pot from the small blind to 350,000.
Josephy reraised pot, Austin mucked and Hindin called, putting himself all in.
On hand number 50 of the "official" final table, five players limped into the pot. Action checked to Cliff Josephy on the flop. He bet 85,000 and was called only by Richard Austin.
Both players checked the turn. Josephy checked again when the river fell , drawing a bet of 225,000 from Austin. Josephy did not seem thrilled with that bet. He tanked for about a minute, then very reluctantly dropped 225,000 match chips into the middle. Austin opened trip sixes, , to take down the pot.
Richard Austin limped his small blind and Rifat Palevic declined his big-blind option. On a flop of , the two players got all of their chips in the middle, with the short-stacked Palevic the all-in player. He showed down a pair of tens, . Austin opened a pair of queens, . The turn was a great sweat card, giving Palevic a draw to hearts. He hit that draw with the river to double up.
In a battle of the blinds, Felipe Ramos and Cliff Josephy took an unraised flop of . Ramos made a stab at the pot with a bet of 40,000. Josephy raised that bet to 150,000, putting Ramos to a decision for all of his chips. Ramos quickly folded.