Pernille Ravn has doubled up to 200,000 after doubling through Daniel Pettersen. The last lady in the tournament opened to 16,000 and Pettersen 3-bet to 33,000, Ravn shoved all-in for 94,500 and Pettersen sighed and called.
Ravn:
Pettersen:
The board came and Ravn had the better three pair to secure the double up.
Georgios Sotiropoulos is hanging on by his fingernails here but he isn't doing the walk of shame just yet. The Greek pushed for about 25,000 preflop with and was isolated by Kent Lundmark in the small blind, the EPT Barcelona champion holding .
The board came , Sotiropoulos has nearly 60,000 now. Lundmark still has a very comfortable stack over 300,000.
Pierre Genot made the opening raise before Thorsten Schafer re-popped to 30,500. Genot made it 90,000, Schafer pushed, and Genot finally called.
Genot:
Schafer:
Board:
Genot had Schafer covered by just 10,000 or so, and that is what he was left with at the end of the hand. We suspect that he will shortly take his leave of the tournament. Schafer meanwhile is back in contention on 540,000.
Overnight chip leader Michael Tureniec is back down below the million chip mark - well below it, in fact, at 750,000.
We only caught this monster hand on the river, with the board reading . It looked as though Tureniec had checked; either way there was a bet of 104,500 in front of his opponent Simon Hanninger and Tureniec tanked for several minutes before calling and mucking to Hanninger's .
Lars Krogh got his last in with and found himself a big dog against JP Kelly's .
Board:
Krogh didn't even see the flush, and was attempting to leave when it was pointed out to him. He sat back down - he had doubled up to 320,000. Kelly was left with 395,000.
Team PokerStars Pro JP Kelly has be eliminated by Per Linde in a huge 800,000 chip pot.
It was a preflop raising war, Linde had opened preflop and Kelly made it 37,000 from the big blind to which Linde replied with a 4-bet to 88,000. Kelly tanked for a minute before moving all-in and Linde quickly called.
Linde:
Kelly:
The flop came and Kelly picked up a gutshot to give him seven outs, but the turn didn't help him and neither did the river. The Team Pro went out in 41st place while usually stoic Linde celebrated with an out-of-character mini-fist pump admitting the significance of the hand afterwards, "That was a big one..."
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.