Despite never seeming to rise above the chip average, and indeed often to be grinding a very low-rise stack, Surinder Sunar has hung in there all the way and is now on the feature table. He's just doubled through to 300k courtesy of Anestis Pantazidis, who threebet all in preflop and found Surinder with too short a stack to raise-fold, and also . Pantazidis could have sent our first player to the rail today if his had held, but instead became the short stack as the board fell .
Another double up for Antonio Buonanno as he open-shoved from the button and Ramin Hajiyev re-shoved from the small blind. On their backs.
Buonanno:
Hajiyev:
Hajiyev: "One time!"
Flop:
Hakiyev: "Ten times!"
Turn and river: and respectively
Hajiyev stuck out his hand; after a moment of Buonanno not registering him, he poked his arm until he shook hands. Buonanno doubled to 390,000; Hajiyev was left with 100,000.
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Fabrizio Gonzalez, with Thomas Kremser
Up on the feature table (we're not allowed up there, so many thanks to TD Thomas Kremser for filling us in afterwards) it folded around to Fabrizio Gonzalez in the small blind who pushed with offsuit, and Daniel Negreanu called in the big blind with . A ten dropped on the flop, and we have our first casualty of the day.
It has been a fantastic year for the diminutive Romanian Mihai Manole, winning over $500,000 in tournament earnings alone. Unfortunately, he will not be able to repeat his final table performance in EPT Barcelona in Season 6 when he finished in 4th place. Chip Leader Konstantinos Nanos has extinguished that dream on this fabulous morning in Vienna.
Nanos opened the action from the hijack seat with a raise of 36,000. Luca Cainelli folded in the cut-off and Manole shoved his stack across the line from the Button. The blinds folded and Nanos asked the Dealer for a count - it was 256,000 on Nanos. Nanos, confident as ever throughout this tournament, made the call.
Nanos:
Manole:
Board:
Manole eliminated in 22nd Place and Nanos adds another 256,000 to his already impressive chip stack.
Andreas Wiese isn't getting to see too many flops at the moment. After that initial confrontation against Hruby, he still had a very reasonable stack and gave preflop raising another go when it folded round to him on the small blind. Big blind Jose Severino looked at the 40k, inspected his own stack, and raised to 125k. This was enough to take another small pot from Wiese who still has over 750k and has proven over three long days that he's not always easy to push around.
In just 20 minutes Antonio Buonanno has gone from comfortable, to as good as out, to back with a shot, to a 400k stack with an aggressive edge. Possibly he just feels immortal and like pushing at his table, chip leader to his left or no chip leader to his left. Just now he took down a pot on a flop with a bet of 65k into both blinds who'd called his preflop 35k but went no further. The big blind was in fact Nanos, who gave the table a couple of gentle taps before folding as if to signify that Buonanno's stack was now worth paying some respect.
Two near-identical hands on the two non-feature tables - though both of them ultimately came to nothing.
On Table 3, Konstantinos Nanos opened to 40,000 from the button, and Luca Cainelli pushed from the small blind for 264,000. There ensued some long staring down from Nanos, but eventually he folded.
Meanwhile over on the next table, Martin Hruby opened for 35,000 on the button, and Morten Erlandsen shoved from the small blind for around 350,000. Hruby folded the same as Nanos, and Erlandsen took the pot.
It was a blind versus blind situation when Ramin Hajiyev shoved his remaining stack across that famous white line and declared that he was all-in. He had 122,000 and the Big Blind belonged to Tonio Röder who had a stack of 379,000 and he made the call.
Hajiyev:
Röder:
Hajiyev got to his feet and Röder stayed seated. The Dealer delivered a flop of . "Club!" Shouted Hajiyev. The Dealer flipped over the turn . "Yes! No Heart!" Shouted Hajiyev - Röder was expressionless. The river was the . "Yes!" Shouted Hajiyev and slapped his hands together.
This is Hajiyev's first ever live event. Maybe he should try to play a few more?
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. Pantazidis could have sent our first player to the rail today if his 
had held, but instead became the short stack as the board fell 
.
and 
respectively
offsuit, and Daniel Negreanu called in the big blind with 
. A ten dropped on the flop, and we have our first casualty of the day.
and found a call from Kirill Zapletin in the big blind holding 
.
flop with a bet of 65k into both blinds who'd called his preflop 35k but went no further. The big blind was in fact Nanos, who gave the table a couple of gentle taps before folding as if to signify that Buonanno's stack was now worth paying some respect.
. "Yes! No Heart!" Shouted Hajiyev - Röder was expressionless. The river was the 
. "Yes!" Shouted Hajiyev and slapped his hands together.
flop and was called by Giacomo Maisto.
