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Ronny Kaiser - 20th Place
Toni Pettersson just turned Ronny Kaiser's world upside down in two pots, knocking out the German.
First Pettersson moved all-in from the small blind with and spiked against Kaiser's big blind holding of on a board. Pettersson jumped to 1,100,000 as a result and Kaiser dropped to 1,000,000.
Then Pettersson opened to 100,000 preflop from the cutoff and Kaiser reraised to 210,000 from the button. Pettersson called and then quickly checked the flop, Kaiser shoved for just over the size of the pot and Pettersson snap-called.
Kaiser:
Pettersson:
Kaiser looked upset, cleanly unhappy that Pettersson had made the call and proceeded to hit one of his three outs. There was no respite though on the turn or river and we were left with 19 players going into the break.
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Armando Graziano - 21st Place
Armando Graziano open-shoved, and it folded right around to Claudio Rinaldi in the big blind, who announced call.
Graziano:
Rinaldi:
Board: bink! re-bink!
Graziano is busto, and Rinaldi is up to 1.7 million.
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A flop of saw Per Linde lead out for 150,000 in a blind on blind battle against Claudio Piceci.
Piceci made a small raise to 345,000 and Linde fairly speedily moved all-in putting Piceci to the test. The latter tanked, attempted to take Linde's pulse and talk to him but folded nonetheless.
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Erik Tamm opened the pot to 95,000 before Paul Berende three-bet to 245,000 total. When it came back to Tamm, he came right back over the top with a four-bet to 480,000, only to see Berende move all in with a covering stack. With about 1.75 million chips in his stack, Tamm made the call to put his tournament life in question. Cards up, gents:
Tamm:
Berende:
There was a bit of a sweat on the turn, but not too much for Berende to hang his hat on as the board ran . That marks a huge double for Tamm, leaving his opponent under a half million chips.
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Dmitry Stelmak raised to 85,000 preflop and Liv Boeree called on the button. Ronny Kaiser then decided to reraised to 245,000 from the big blind before Stelmak responded in kind pushing out a whole stack of 25k chips to make it 500,000 to play. Boeree quietly folded and Kaiser quickly did also.
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Jens Thorson
A dramatic downfall for the Swede Jens Thorson, it had seeds sown in a huge pot against Michael Piper.
The board was reading and Thorson fired out 115,000 and Piper called. On the river Thorson now bet 180,000 and Piper tanked for a couple of minutes before raising to a hefty 800,000.
Thorson thought for a moment before calling and Piper flipped for a flopped boat to win a massive pot and boost his stack to 3 million chips.
Thorson was crippled with about 600,000 left and moved all-in from middle position, Per Linde snap-called from the big blind and Thorson looked miserable.
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Ms. Boeree
Ronny Kaiser raised to 80,000 under the gun only for Mohsen Tayfeh to make it 190,000. Liv Boeree in the small blind thought about it for a while - and then four-bet to 560,000.
Kaiser folded fairly promptly, but Tayfeh took his time. "Kings again? Back to back?" he mused. "Or aces?" Eventually he folded with a, "Nice hand," and a tap of the table.
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Per Linde opened for 87,000 and Mike Piper called. However, both of them laid it down after Claudio Rinaldi shoved and Atanas Gueorguiev reshoved.
On their backs.
Rinaldi:
Gueorguiev:
Board:
A failure to spike meant that Gueorguiev was reduced to 1.2 million. Rinaldi however is back in the game on around 1 million.
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and spiked against Kaiser's big blind holding of 
on a 
board. Pettersson jumped to 1,100,000 as a result and Kaiser dropped to 1,000,000.
flop, Kaiser shoved for just over the size of the pot and Pettersson snap-called.
turn or 
river and we were left with 19 players going into the break.
bink! 
re-bink! 
and Thorson fired out 115,000 and Piper called. On the 
river Thorson now bet 180,000 and Piper tanked for a couple of minutes before raising to a hefty 800,000.
for a flopped boat to win a massive pot and boost his stack to 3 million chips.
