With the board reading , Katja Rooch moved all in for about 20,000. Jim Collopy looked a little concerned at first, but made the call with . Rooch showed and found no help on the turn or river, ending her tournament.
We arrived on the river of the board to find 100,000 in the pot and Timo Pfuetzenreuter in the hijack betting 38,700, leaving himself just 2,000 behind. Marine Labernardie in the cutoff removed her shades and eyed him up. She asked for the dealer to count the bet which he duly did, and then she counted out the call from her own stack. Then she dwelled up for a while.
Eventually the clock was called, and after 30 seconds or so she bit the proverbial bullet and pushed the chips across the line.
Labernardie:
Pfuetzenreuter: tried to muck, but was made to show
Labernardie's cheeks puffed up with relief as she moved on up to 260,000. Pfuetzenreuter and his remaining 2,000 chips looked pretty unhappy about the whole affair...
We've reached the end of another level, and the players have been sent off for a quick break. You've got a few minutes to kill, and we can't think of a better way to spend two of them than watching a video featuring Luca Pagano. Yesterday night, Glo caught up with the best-dressed man on the EPT circuit for a little thing we like to call, "Calling the Clock". Have a look:
From middle position, Alexia Portal opened the pot to 5,200. The table folded all the way around to the big blind where PokerStars Qualifier Marijan Tomaskovic moved all in for 18,200. Portal didn't seem to like it, but she splashed in the call to put her opponent at risk. She'd like it a little better when the cards were turned up:
Portal:
Tomaskovic:
The board wouldn't provide any help for the all-in player, coming down . Unable to improve, Tomaskovic is out, moving Portal up very close to the century mark. She's got 97,000 by our count.
Xavier Detournel, who would probably score a lot in Scrabble if he were an allowed word, got his last 18,000 or so in to a 6,000 raise from Luca Cainelli, who naturally called.
Cainelli:
Detournel:
Board: .....
Ouch. Cainelli said sorry, but he didn't really sound as though he meant it...
Jesper Hougaard made it 4,500 from the button only for Christophe Gross to make it 16,500 from the small blind. Hougaard made it 49,000, Gross called with 4,000 back (they'd clearly both thought the four-bet would put Gross in) and the last few chips went in on the flop.
Hougaard: flopped the Broadway straight with
Gross: nowhere near with
Turn:
River:
They shook hands and Gross took his leave. "I told you were going to win," chuckled a tablemate to Hougaard. "Running good," came the reply, "Not the worst flop in the world."
First into the pot, Luca Cainelli opened to 6,100. David Wintersberger asked him how much he was playing before making the call from the button, and Lex Veldhuis called from the small blind as well.
Three ways to the flop, the dealer spread out , and Veldhuis led out into the pot with a bet of 12,000. Only Cainelli put in the call this time, and it was heads up the rest of the way.
Fourth street brought the . Veldhuis checked the scare card, and he would quickly call a bet of 21,000 from Cainelli. The raggy filled out the board, and Veldhuis knocked the table again. When Cainelli fired another 36,000 at the pot, Veldhuis sighed heavily and flicked the calling chips into the pot. Cainelli turned up his for the ace-high flush, and it was the winner winner.
Lex let out a frustrated, "So annoying," as he flashed his and flung his worthless set into the muck.
Veldhuis is down to about 110,000 after that slip, while Cainelli is up to about 185,000.
A lucky escape for Alain Medesan as he got the last of his stack in with and got called by Alessandro Lusso holding dominating pocket jacks. Nevertheless Lusso seemed to sense what was coming as he walked away from the table, and when he returned it was to see the board reading and a chunk of his stack getting shipped over to Medesan.