Frenchman Candido Gonçalves just added close to 250,000 to his already impressive stack after a clash with Serbia's Ognjen Sekularac.
Sekularac made an unorthodox raise to 99,000 under the gun, unorthodox in that the rest of the table have been making it between 80,000 and 88,000. Anyway, Gonçalves was next to act and made the call, leaving them heads-up to the flop.
Flop: - This looked to have hit Sekularac as he made a continuation bet of 116,000 and after his trademark overly long pause, Gonçalves announced he was all-in! Sekularec did not fancy playing for stacks and mucked his hand.
Gonçalves, with a big smile on his face, turned over . This table loves to show their hands
Luis Rufas opens from early position to 100,000 and Georgios Skotadis three-bets in late position making it 225,000 to play. The action folds to Kent Lundmark in the Small Blind and he pushes all-in. Rufas gets out of the way and the decision is on Skotadis and it is his biggest decision of the day.
Skotadis turns his cap around and takes of his sunglasses tanks for a long while and folds pocket sevens.
At the start of this hand, Shander De Vries asked the big blind, Jesus Cortes Lizano how many chips he had, which I thought meant he was preparing for the relatively short-stacked Lizano to move all-in on him if he raised.
That is exactly what happened as he opened with an 80,000 bet from the button, Lizano moved all-in for what turned out to be 863,000 and De Vries looked perplexed by what had happened.
After counting his own stack no fewer than three times, he let go of his hand. Strange.
Now that we're down to 11, play seems to have slowed down a bit - with the average stack at 50 big blinds there's a lot of play in this structure yet, and there's a whole world of difference between the €36,000 on offer for 11th place and the €825,000 carrot dangling over first place.
We did manage to catch one interesting hand at the outer table, though. Candido Goncalves opened for 106,000 from the button but in the small blind Shander de Vries made it 300,000 to go. After a bit of a tank, Goncalves called.
They saw a flop and de Vries bet out 250,000. Goncalves, who seems to be a bit of an habitual tanker, spent a tantalisingly long amount of time thinking about it, but eventually folded.
De Vries is now over 2 million; Goncalves is still just a little ahead of him though on 2.2 million.
The action on the non-feature table has been very slow, with the final table bubble rapidly approaching nobody wants to be eliminated.
The most intersting hand of note in a while happened when Francesco Notaro raised from under the gun to 120,000 and only Ognjen Sekularac, in the small blind, made the call.
Flop:
Sekularec checked, Notaro bet 100,000 but then got out of the way when Sekularec made it 218,000 to play.
Once again Notaro showed his table mates his hole cards, this time , giving away free information for at least the third time today!
- This looked to have hit Sekularac as he made a continuation bet of 116,000 and after his trademark overly long pause, Gonçalves announced he was all-in! Sekularec did not fancy playing for stacks and mucked his hand.
. This table loves to show their hands![[user169505]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
flop and de Vries bet out 250,000. Goncalves, who seems to be a bit of an habitual tanker, spent a tantalisingly long amount of time thinking about it, but eventually folded.
