Level: 18
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 500
Level: 18
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 500
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 |
---|---|---|
Joel Nordkvist |
1,440,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |
Per Linde |
1,100,000
420,000
|
420,000 |
Ivan Freitez |
860,000
60,000
|
60,000 |
Michael Tureniec |
845,000
95,000
|
95,000 |
|
||
Nikolas Liakos |
638,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
Ørjan Skommo
|
630,000
280,000
|
280,000 |
Simon Hanninger
|
585,000
-90,000
|
-90,000 |
Jens Lauridsen
|
520,000
95,000
|
95,000 |
Helge Rahbek
|
490,000 | |
Simen Johannessen
|
420,000
-20,000
|
-20,000 |
Kevin Iacofano |
374,000
-55,000
|
-55,000 |
Jan Sørensen
|
360,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
Lars Krogh
|
320,000 | |
Juha Vilkki |
320,000
53,000
|
53,000 |
Florian Langmann |
300,000
-4,000
|
-4,000 |
Kent Lundmark |
300,000
-33,000
|
-33,000 |
|
||
Dmitry Vitkind |
290,000
-90,000
|
-90,000 |
Mark Hirleman
|
280,000
60,000
|
60,000 |
Johnny Jensen |
275,000
55,000
|
55,000 |
Martin Jacobson | 270,000 | |
Olivier Sangalli
|
240,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
Surinder Sunar |
238,000
135,000
|
135,000 |
Andrea Dalle Molle
|
233,000
123,000
|
123,000 |
Daniel Johansson |
230,000
109,000
|
109,000 |
Daniel Pettersen
|
220,000
60,000
|
60,000 |
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.
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.
Georgios Sotiropoulos has been knocked out, pushing with and Martin Clemmensen calling with which hit a ten on the flop for good measure.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The unflappable Per Linde has such a stack now that taking potshots at shorter players preflop cannot damage him. In the security of a chip millionaire, it looks like a preflop war against Simen Johannessen had found him committing 290k preflop to call his all-in. The hands were on their backs as we approached the table.
Linde:
Johannessen:
The flop was all paint: . The on the turn, however, negated all that good work getting it in dominating and hitting the flop - Johannessen could just bang his fist on the table and mutter what sounded like, "FFS!"
The dealer chopped the pot and a ruffled Johannessen shook his head.