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Nicolas Babel raised in the hijack and to his immediate left Rasmus Nielsen reraised to 21,500. Back to Babel, who now made it 41,000. After a while Nielsen called.
They saw a 
flop and both players checked very slowly, with the absolute maximum of suspicious glances at each other. On the 
turn, though, Babel bet out 48,000, and Nielsen gave it up.
Current standings: Babel 190,000, Nielsen 145,000.
We have mentioned Toby Lewis dozens of times today and it is not some weird crush we have on him, he is simply being involved in lots of pots each time we are near his table over at the back of the room.
In this latest hand, Lewis raised to 8,000 from late position and both Ion Pavel and Melanie Weisner in the blinds made the call, though the latter asked how much Lewis was playing from before putting in the extra 4,000 chips required to call.
Flop: 
- All three players quickly checked
Turn: 
- Again, all three players decided checking was the best action
River: 
- This time Pavel checked, as did Weisner but Lewis tossed a single yellow 5,000 chip into the pot and only Pavel called.
Lewis: 
Pavel: 
Choppity chop
Yury Kerzhapkin shoved under the gun with 
for around 40,000 and found a caller in Liviu Ignat holding 
. A most entertaining board followed - 
- and Kerzhapkin, who finished 45th here last, doubled to around 90,000 while tablemates Melanie Weisner and Toby Lewis discussed things that could possibly have made the flop more entertaining.
Whilst the aggression preflop is still quite high, with almost every pot being raised, post flop the new trend seems to be to play as passively as humanly possibly, as displayed by Rob Hollink and Dominik Nitsche.
Hollink min-raised first in from the hijack and only Nitsche in the small blind called. The pair checked the 
flop, and the 
turn and the 
river with Hollink then turning over for ace-high, losing to Nitsche's 
Bet for crying out loud, bet!
A battle of the blinds could have turned from tussle to fight to the death as Matt Affleck put the pressure on and was squeezed right back. Small blind Andras Koroknai raised to 22,500, Affleck made it a round 50,000 and Koroknai started a lengthy period of thinking. He had more than Affleck's 115k behind, but not a whole lot, so his decision was clearly causing him some concern. The clock was called.
"You have one minute to make a decision."
"Thirty seconds."
"Ten."
Koroknai moved all in and Affleck passed immediately. He allowed himself a mini fistpump and exhaled the tension, stacking the pot without a flop.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
525,000 | -17,000 |
|
380,000 | -5,000 |
|
376,000 | 108,000 |
|
|
375,000 | 375,000 |
|
|
368,000 | 286,000 |
|
350,000 | 111,000 |
|
333,000 | -10,000 |
|
316,000 | 96,000 |
|
301,000 | 109,000 |
|
295,000 | 295,000 |
|
|
287,000 | 20,000 |
|
|
280,000 | 104,000 |
|
270,000 | 71,000 |
|
269,000 | -86,000 |
|
|
260,000 | -109,000 |
|
|
246,000 | 100,000 |
|
245,000 | -30,000 |
|
244,000 | -61,000 |
|
244,000 | -53,000 |
|
242,000 | 17,000 |
|
|
233,000 | 80,000 |
|
227,000 | -116,000 |
|
221,000 | 115,000 |
|
220,000 | 96,000 |
|
217,000 | 2,000 |
Level: 15
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 400
The players are leaving for their final 15 minute break of the day. The last level is coming up - will they reach the money (80 places) or not?
Peter Skripka raised and Besim Hot called in the hijack before John Eames shoved from the big blind. Skripka called all in, Hot folded, and they were on their backs. Eames had Skripka covered by a mere 600 chips.
Skripka:
Eames: 
Board: 
Skripka doubled to 185,000. Half of Eames' remaining stack went in as the ante next hand, and the other went in as a partial small blind. Sergio Rodriguez Sanchez raised, everyone else folded, and seconds later Eames was busto.
Sanchez: 
Eames: 
Board: 
Olivier Daeninckx opened for 7,500 under the gun and Tobias Reinkemeier made it 20-something-k in the hijack. Daeninckx shoved, Reinkemeier called, and within moments Daeninckx was nodding approvingly and doubling up to 145,000. Reinkemeier's still not in bad shape on 240,000.
Daeninckx: 
Reinkemeier: 
Board: 
