Antonio Buonanno opened to 4,500 from the button, but Kent Lundmark decided to make it All In from the big blind - 56,100 in total. Buonanno thought long and hard, but eventually folded, much to the disappointment of the TV crew who had positioned themselves all around the table and now had very little to show for their efforts.
The EPT Barcelona champion stays in the game on a little over 60,000.
Aurelien Guiglini gave a short stack a bit of breathing room in an odd hand which saw three players call preflop before Jonas Becker shoved his last <15k in from the small blind. Caller #1 folded, and Guiglini moved in over the top. The isolation was effective (although the last remaining player with around 45,000 thought long and hard about it) - he was racing against .
The flop paired the short stack: and the turn and river confirmed that he's still alive and kicking.
There was a raise by a gentleman whose name we were unable to ascertain, before Team PokerStars Pro Henrique Pinho reraised to 11,000 from the big blind. The original raiser made it 29,500, and Pinho went all in for around 128,000. Snap-call.
O.R.:
Pinho:
"Well played," said Pinho, and stood to leave.
Board: smack!
Pinho's opponent banged the table in frustration as the king dropped on the flop, and you do really have to feel for him. Pinho doubled to 260,000, up there with the big boys now. His opponent was crippled to just 20,000 or so, and exited shortly afterwards.
Yury Kerzhapkin is now super-short, the Russian getting it in against an even shorter stack and finding himself in trouble against . The board came down an uneventful and Kerzhapkin is down to just 20,000 or so.
Jan Heitmann who has lost chips since the start of the day, has just double up through Dean Sanders (who also has lost chips since the start of the day).
It was Heitmann's that held against Sanders' after the board came .
Heitmann returns to 70,000 and Sanders has 10,000 left.
Konstantin Bücherl opened to 4,000 before Johan van Til made it 9,200 on the button. In the small blind, Mario Adinolfi snap-called. Back to Bücherl, who tanked up for a bit before making it 34,000. And back to van Til, who now shoved for 47,600. Both his opponents called, and they were at the flop, van Til already all in.
Flop:
Adinolfi now shoved, and Bücherl called all in for his last 30,000 or so. Everybody turn your cards over!
Van Til: for top set
Adinolfi: for top pair
Bücherl: for just ace-high
Turn:
River:
Van Til tripled up to around 150,000, while Bücherl got himself a one-way ticket to Bustoville. Adinolfi won the side pot so only dropped around 20,000 on that pot, and is at 220,000.
Now that the cameras have come out of the woodwork, Fabrizio Ascari is talking up a storm, whether he's in the hand or not. Being the dealer on his table must be like herding an angry cat.
Just now an early position shove saw Ascari fold, and then make a song and dance about it, writing his hand on a secret piece of paper and trying to pass it to seat 1, saying, "For when you fold! When you fold!"
This wasn't allowed.
Jens Thorson then called all-in for a very short 22,000, covered even by the other short stack. He showed to .
"ACE QUEEN!" shouted Ascari. "I folded ACE QUEEN! Don't bring an ace! No ace!" He continued in this manner while the two players with their lives on the line waited in tense silence. The board arrived and Thorson left without a word.
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