A short raising war between Nikolay Losev (position) and Marcin Horecki (big blind) soon resulted in a preflop showdown. On their backs, gentlemen.
Losev:
Horecki:
Board:
With that, we are down to nine players and they're currently all being condensed on to a single unofficial final table. We will continue playing until only eight remain.
The players have redrawn for the unofficial final table of nine. Once we lose another player the tournament will be stopped and will resume tomorrow at 1200 CET
Seat 1: Marco Leonzio - 3,832,000
Seat 2: Peter Skripka - 3,163,000
Seat 3: Roberto Romanello - 1,104,000
Seat 4: Roberto Nulli - 1,087,000
Seat 5: Jan Bendik - 953,000
Seat 6: Emilliano Bono - 1,532,000
Seat 7: Manuel Bevand - 842,000
Seat 8: Kevin MacPhee - 631,000
Seat 9: Marcin Horecki - 3,679,000
Peter Skripka raised to 95,000 in the cutoff and everyone folded.
Hand 2
Skripka raised to 100,000 from the hijack and everyone else folded again.
Hand 3
Roberto Romanello raised to 105,000 and everyone passed. "I don't wanna show. Nobody. Nothing. I'm folding," he told table neighbour and namesake Roberto Nulli, all the while waving the around so that everyone could see it except Nulli.
Hand 4
Kevin MacPhee got a walk.
There was then a brief pause while Romanello talked dealer Charlie Ciresi into wearing his fake-hair ski hat. "Oh my god, you look awesome with hair," Kevin MacPhee told him.
Team PokerStars por Marcin Horecki has been ultra-aggressive early on at this unofficial final table, raising the last three hands all in late position.
The last time he raised he made it 91,000 from the cutoff, causing both Marco Leonzio and Peter Skripka to fold but Roberto Romanello had other ideas. He counted out chips to the value of 219,000 and pushed them across the betting line.
Horecki asked for a count, but couldn't be given an exact figure as Romanello has his chips stack in what is best described as an artistic fashion. "Around 1.1" said Romanello, which was too much for Horecki and he folded his hand.
Kevin MacPhee had been blinded and anted off to just 550,000 when Roberto Nulli opened for 100,000. MacPhee, in the small blind this time, sat back in his chair. "Where are you from?" he asked Nulli. Answer: Italy.
"Wow," said Marcin Horecki, "Four Italians. Spaghetti."
He was of course talking about the three bona fide Italian nationals, Nulli, Marco Leonzio, Emilliano Bono, and also Roberto Romanello. Though the latter is technically Welsh, he is, as he put it, "A full-blooded Italian."
"I represent five countries," Romanello, we think, lied.
"I represent a whole hemisphere," countered MacPhee.
Roberto Romanello is doing what he does best and that is helping the table to enjoy themselves. Whilst the poker has been mainly of a preflop variety, Romanello is trying his best to keep those at the table and everyone watching entertained with his witty banter and silly antics
First hand back and microstacked Kevin MacPhee folded under the gun, despite big blind Manuel Bevand not having made it back in time for the start and therefore having his cards mucked. "I'm such a nit," he said.
To MacPhee's left, Marcin Horecki limped, and it then folded around to Emilliano Bono in the small blind who made it 165,000 to go. Horecki asked for a count on Bono (Bono pleasingly said, "One meeelion," as he counted them up - it was around 1.1 million back in total) and then flat-called.
Both players checked the flop and Bono bet out 100,000 on the turn. Horecki called it, and called the additional 100,000 that Bono bet out on the river as well, but then mucked as Bono turned over for top two pair.