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A step in the wrong direction for Surinder Sunar followed: it folded round to him in the small blind, and with just new short-stack Anestis Pantazidis in the big blind, he decided to pile on the pressure with whatever was at hand. That turned out to be 
. Pantazidis took the plunge with 
, spiked a Jack to seal the deal and doubled to 330k while Sunar dropped to 394k.
Our remaining 21 have headed out into the sunshine to fill their lungs with air or cigarette smoke, depending.
Back shortly.
Level: 22
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 2,000
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
2,340,000
77,000
|
77,000 |
|
||
|
2,110,000
-1,000
|
-1,000 |
|
||
|
1,600,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
1,420,000
-138,000
|
-138,000 |
|
1,400,000
101,000
|
101,000 |
|
||
|
1,290,000
-210,000
|
-210,000 |
|
980,000 | |
|
840,000
-118,000
|
-118,000 |
|
|
||
|
765,000
242,000
|
242,000 |
|
630,000
240,000
|
240,000 |
|
||
|
485,000
-55,000
|
-55,000 |
|
450,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
|
|
||
|
420,000
-80,000
|
-80,000 |
|
|
420,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
400,000
28,000
|
28,000 |
|
390,000
-110,000
|
-110,000 |
|
370,000
-32,000
|
-32,000 |
|
|
||
|
324,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
|
310,000
130,000
|
130,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
225,000
-32,000
|
-32,000 |
|
220,000
-24,000
|
-24,000 |
Surinder Sunar opened for 54,000 on the button and in the small blind Anestis Pantazidis shoved for around 300,000. Back to Sunar who made the call, and it was not looking good for the Greek.
Pantazidis: 
Sunar: 
Board: 
Sunar threw up his hands as the flop left him drawing very thin indeed. Duly Pantazidis doubled up to 600,000 or so, and Sunar was left with just 76,000.
He shoved next hand from the cutoff and got a call from Michael Eiler in the big blind. This time Surinder was dominated, and was looking at a chop at best...
Sunar:
Eiler: 
But wait!
Board:
Surinder made a straight and doubled to around 200,000 - still only 10 big blinds, but he stays in the game for the moment.
Matthias Lotze is taking his turn on the short stack merry-go-round, but he's not so short that the more healthily-stacked call him automatically. Antonio Buonanno raised preflop to 45k and found Lotze moving all in for 365k. He gave the impassive youngster a good long stare, and it didn't look like timewasting as Buonanno asked for the accurate count and considered making the call. Finally he laid his hand down with a wasp-chewing expression and Lotze remains safe.
Matthias Lotze has doubled up through the luckless Balazs Botond. Tonio Röder opened to 45,000 from middle position and Lotze shoved his 416,000 stack into the middle and was all-in. Botond called instantly and Röder got out of the way.
Botond: 
Lotze: 
Lotze of luck needed then - and it came in the form of two Aces on the flop to crush the hopes of Botond. 
. The turn and river were no help to Botond 
and Lotze doubles up.
Lotze ~ 832,000
Botond ~ 898,000
Heads up in a blind-on-blind hand, Konstantinos Nanos was peering at big blind Luca Cainelli's stack after seeing a single-raised flop of 
when suddenly he (Cainelli) moved all-in out of turn for 243k. This surprised Nanos and the dealer, who explained that the small blind had yet to check or bet. Cainelli pulled back his stacks but it was now obvious what was in store.
"That's a good move," laughed Ramin Hajiyev as Nanos thought for a long time before check-folding.
"Would you have bet?" Hajiyev asked.
Nanos shook his head but had had that option effectively removed. "It's easier to call if you'd have bet," continued Hajiyev, clearly amused by the outcome of the hand.
It was difficult to see the action on the Feature Table but Jacques Zaicik has been eliminated at the hands of [Removed:40] and a flopped set of deuces. Zaicik made it 45,000 from the button and Team Pokerstars Pro Daniel Negreanu called from Small Blind as did Vitagliano from the Big Blind. The flop was 
and Negreanu and Vitagliano checked the action over the original raiser Zaicik who pushed his remaining stack all-in. Negreanu moved out of the way and Vitagliano made the call.
Vitagliano: 
Zaicik:
Zaicik needed a three to stay alive but it didn't come. The turn was and river and he was eliminated in 21st place.
This has been a remarkably slow paced Day 4 so far, and the lack of crazy bust-out action continues.
It's not that players aren't keen to get their chips in though - we just witnessed Morten Erlandsen shove from the small blind, forcing a fold from big blind Toni Judet, while over on the other table Tonio Röder was going all in from the cutoff. In Röder's case, it looked as though something might happen when Luca Cainelli in the big blind tanked up long enough to have the clock called on him - but within five minutes of the clock being called Cainelli had folded, and play continues.
