Not in some kind of Jekyll and Hyde good chipleader/bad chipleader way, but in the sense that he's been sat on both sides of Konstantinos Nanos today. He started out his right-hand-side neighbour, and somehow the draw fell so that he's ended up on a different table his left-hand-side neighbour, which must be a better position for him. He's still on over 1.2 million chips, despite conceding a small pot to Morten Erlandsen.
Erlandsen limped on the button and Lotze checked his option, while small blind Nanos threw his hand away (although, weirdly, on the flop, he checked in turn anyway). No bet from either player here, but on the turn Lotze fired 33k, which Erlandsen called. The river was the and now Lotze checked and Erlandsen bet 52k. It looked like Lotze was going to make the call right up until the moment he suddenly folded instead, putting his 52k back on his chip towers.
Kirill Zapletin raised and Daniel Negreanu called to see an flop. Negreanu check-called Zapletin's 100,000 bet and they saw another card.
Both players checked the turn and continued on to the river. This time Negreanu bet out 135,000 - but was now met with a small raise to 285,000 from Zapletin. After a moment he called, and discovered that his pocket deuces were good against Zapletin's .
The quiet aggression of Michael Eiler continues to build his stack, up and over everyone else's on the feature table. He took his turn threebetting Daniel Negreanu just now, reraising to 182k out of position and finding Negreanu making a quick call. On the flop, he bet out 242k, and Negreanu folded just as fast.
Mortan Erlandsen from Denmark is more well known for his exploits in cyberspace than he is on the live circuit. Erlandsen, who got the curious name after starting out in poker playing on his Mother's account, first played a hand of poker back in 2000. It was Seven-Card Stud on a family trip to the States. Then Erlandsen heard about internet poker and started playing $2-4 Stud online and slowly made his way up. After playing Stud all the way up to $50-100 online he then made the switch to NLHE and since then he has not looked back.
He is now guaranteed his biggest ever live tournament cash with 14 players left at EPT Vienna. We caught the "Pokergirl1" winning some chips in this hand.
Erlandsen opened from under the gun to the tune of 66,000 and Bruno Launais called from the cut-off. The flop was and Erlandsen, riffling two piles of red chips, checked and Launais who was doing exactly the same thing bet 74,000. Erlandsen announced all-in for 381,000 and after taking his shades off for a closer look Launais laid it down and surrendered the pot to "Pokergirl1"
Having given up a lot of his stack to Cainelli, Pantazidis was always going to be one of the next players to attempt the double-or-bust move, and he found a pretty good spot to do it almost immediately, threebetting all in from the big blind when Daniel Negreanu had raised to 60k on the button and small blind [Removed:40] had called. Negreanu folded but Vitagliano made the call with ; Pantazidis held and faded a worryingly flushy turn on a board to double through on the river to 600k.
Anestis Pantazidis raised, and faced a shove from Luca Cainelli. He called, and Cainelli - who has put his chips in the middle more than any other player here today - was ahead.
Cainelli:
Pantazidis:
Board:
Cainelli and Pantazidis virtually swapped stacks - Cainelli doubling up to 770,000, Pantazidis dropping to just 300,000 or 10 big blinds.
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flop, he checked in turn anyway). No bet from either player here, but on the 
turn Lotze fired 33k, which Erlandsen called. The river was the 
and now Lotze checked and Erlandsen bet 52k. It looked like Lotze was going to make the call right up until the moment he suddenly folded instead, putting his 52k back on his chip towers.
flop. Negreanu check-called Zapletin's 100,000 bet and they saw another card.
turn and continued on to the 
river. This time Negreanu bet out 135,000 - but was now met with a small raise to 285,000 from Zapletin. After a moment he called, and discovered that his pocket deuces were good against Zapletin's 
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flop, he bet out 242k, and Negreanu folded just as fast.
and Erlandsen, riffling two piles of red chips, checked and Launais who was doing exactly the same thing bet 74,000. Erlandsen announced all-in for 381,000 and after taking his shades off for a closer look Launais laid it down and surrendered the pot to "Pokergirl1"
