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Ivan Freitez opened to 18,500 from early position before Olivier Sangalli moved all-in next to him for 187,500.
"Call," said Freitez. Sangalli didn't like that.
Freitez: 
Sangalli: 
The board came 
and our only Venezuelan player has over 600,000 in chips now.
Olivier Sangalli opened preflop to 19,000 and Thorsten Schafer moved all-in from the button before Ørjan Skommo reraised all-in from the big blind. Sangalli quickly folded and Schafer turned over 
to Skommo's 
.
The flop kept the race going, coming 
. "Deuce!" teased Florian Langmann.
The 
came on the turn but it was the 
river which gave the pot to Skommo as Schafer was made to hit the rail.
Reduced to around 30,000, Johnny Lodden moved all in, and amazingly got away with it - he picked up the blinds and antes and increased his stack 50% to 47,000.
The next hand he shoved under the gun and this time Andrea Dalle Molle called on the button. If one had asked Lodden what he thought about this, as we understand is a common occurrence, he would probably have said that things weren't looking good.
Lodden: 
Molle: 
But Lodden has a way with these things...
Board: 
"I was aiming for a spilt," Lodden mused as he doubled to over 100,000. Molle looked less amused by this episode - he's down to 160,000.
A drop to the very felt just now for Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden. Having roller-coasted his way through Day 2, he had never built a particularly formidable stack, and now it's just 30,000 chips strong.
Richard Dalberg was his silent assassin - there was preflop action (missed) and the heads-up flop of 
brought an all-in raise from Dalberg, called by Lodden with 
. He was up against Dalberg's nut flush draw: 
.
The fifth heart appeared immediately - 
on the turn, and the river saw Lodden mutter to himself a little as he saw his stack cross the table.
Georgios Sotiropoulos has been knocked out, pushing with 
and Martin Clemmensen calling with 
which hit a ten on the flop for good measure.
John Eames moved all-in from late position and Michael Tureniec made a quick call.
Eames:
Tureniec:
was the board that put Eames back up to 260,000 while Tureniec dropped to 650,000.
"Are we even now?" asked Tureniec, referring to another tournament last year where Tureniec won a monster pot from Eames by outdrawing him.
"Getting there..." replied Eames.
A slow start to this level, with no-one really wanting to get as far as a showdown.
Johnny Lodden min-raised from the cutoff, but faced a 113,500 shove from Richard Dalberg in the big blind. Lodden spent a little while shaking his head and looking at his own relatively short stack before folding.
Meanwhile at the next table Juha Helppi was open-shoving in early position. No-one wanted to tangle with him and he picked up the now hefty blinds and antes.
Please note - Helge Rahbek for some reason refused to give the nice people at PokerStars his chip count, so we've left it as it was at the last count. We'll check up on him shortly.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,440,000 | -5,000 |
|
1,100,000 | 420,000 |
|
860,000 | 60,000 |
|
845,000 | 95,000 |
|
638,000 | 3,000 |
|
|
630,000 | 280,000 |
|
|
585,000 | -90,000 |
|
|
520,000 | 95,000 |
|
|
490,000 | |
|
|
420,000 | -20,000 |
|
374,000 | -55,000 |
|
|
360,000 | 5,000 |
|
|
320,000 | |
|
320,000 | 53,000 |
|
300,000 | -4,000 |
|
300,000 | -33,000 |
|
290,000 | -90,000 |
|
|
280,000 | 60,000 |
|
275,000 | 55,000 |
|
270,000 | |
|
|
240,000 | 20,000 |
|
238,000 | 135,000 |
|
|
233,000 | 123,000 |
|
230,000 | 109,000 |
|
|
220,000 | 60,000 |
Level: 18
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 500
Thorsten Schafer has seen his stack drop dramatically. In the top ten stacks no longer, a huge flip has cost him dearly.
Ivan Freitez on the button started the megapot off with a raise, which big blind Schafer upped to 42,500. As soon as the action returned to Freitez, he announced, "All in," for 380,000! Into the tank for Schafer, who was clearly not making frivolous three-bets. Finally he said the C-word ('call' of course) and turned over . Freitez showed .
Flop: 
Turn:
River:
Freitez banged his hand down on the table, exhaled a breath he'd been holding and doubled through to a big stack.
