Ilari Tahkokallio raised to 100,000 from the button, but Lennart Holz made it 200,000 from the big blind. Tahkokallio four-bet to put him in, Holz called all in, and they flipped the cards.
Holz:
Tahkokallio:
Board:
Perhaps it was karma repaying Tahkokallio for his gentlemanly behaviour in honouring Cainelli's all-in after the robbery, although that seems a little unfair on Holz. Either way, though, Tahkokallio made a flush to put him up to 3.1 million, and Holz headed for the rail.
Nico Behling raised to 72,000 under the gun and found a caller in Ketul Nathwani.
Flop: - Behling asked Nathwani if he had him covered, and after determining that he did, Behling checked. Nathwani bet 120,000, and Behling called.
Turn: - Same story, different street. Behling checked, Nathwani bet 305,000, and Behling flatted.
River: - Take three. Behling checked, and Nathwani slid out a big chunk of his chips, 730,000 to be exact. "Call," said Behling, and Nathwani immediately rapped the table. Nathwani tabled for nothing but ace high. Behling had two pair with , more then good enough to take down the huge pot. After the massive bluff, Nathwani is down to 850,000. Behling has jumped into second with 3.3 million. He's still well behind chip leader Kevin MacPhee, who has 5 million.
On the flop of , Kethal Nathwani bet 105,000 into Nico Behling. Behling raised the bet up to 280,000 and after a few minutes in the tank, Nathwani called.
The turn brought the and Nathwani passed over to Behling. He fired 475,000 chips and Nathwani tank-folded his hand allowing Behling to add about 400,000 chips to his stack.
Mathias Kuerschner raised to 80,000 and then Norman Kastner reraised to 210,000. Kuerschner moved all in and Kastner called. Kuerschner was all in for about 475,000 chips.
Kuerschner held and was racing for his tournament life again the for Kastner.
The board ran out and Kastner made a straight as his jacks held to send Kuerschner to the rail in 18th place.
Jude Ainsworth opened from middle position to 65,000 and then Kevin MacPhee reraised from the button to 200,000. When action got back to Ainsworth, he moved all in for a little under 600,000. MacPhee snap-called and the cards were revealed.
MacPhee:
Ainsworth:
It was bad timing for Ainsworth with his four-bet shove as MacPhee had a hand he could call with. The board then ran out and Ainsworth was eliminated in 19th place. The Team PokerStars Pro earned €23,500 for his finish.
Short-stacked following his pocket queens losing out to on the hand immediately prior to the robbery, a blind on blind confrontation saw Theo Jorgensen (big blind) all in and called by Evgeniy Zaytsev (small blind).
As reported earlier, Luca Cainelli was all in against Ilari Tahkokallio when play was interrupted for four hours. Tahkokallio only had three outs with just the river to come to avoid shipping Cainelli about 600,000 chips, a sizable portion of his 1.5 million stack.
Given the choice to chop the hand and avoid seeing a river, Tahkokallio said since he'd made the call, he'd play the hand all the way through. The extremely delayed river was a blank, and Cainelli doubled up. Hard not to hope that the poker gods took note of Tahkokallio's respect for the game.
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A large hand was in progress when chaos broke out in the tournament room and everyone fled. Ilari Tahkokallio (we have recently discovers he goes by Ilari, not Iikka) raised to 70,000 under the gun, and Luca Cainelli moved all in from the big blind. It was another 503,000 for Tahkokallio to make the call, and he did. Cainelli was at risk with and in good shape to double through Tahkokallio's .
The flop was a safe and the turn was a harmless . Then all of a sudden there was shouting and a wall of people running away from the tournament room entrance toward (and on top of) the main event tables. In the scramble, tables were overturned and chip stacks knocked over, but somehow the board and the players' hands remained on the table.
Once the players returned to the table to sort out their stacks, Thomas Kremser, the tournament director, told Ilari Tahkokallio and Luca Cainelli that if either of them did not want to carry on with the hand, then they would chop up the pot and move on to the next hand. In good shape to double up, of course Cainelli said that he'd like to play out the hand. Tahkokallio stands to lose almost 600,000 chips in the hand and has only three outs with one card to come. But rather than call it a wash and take back his chips, Tahkokallio said that he'd made the call and it was only fair to see the river. We'll let you know what happens when action resumes. If karma exists, Tahkokallio deserves some run good tonight.