[user46298]
SPORTSMAN -- The action continues apace over here, with the chips starting to pool in some stacks as they drain from others. Andreas Krause was the latest casualty, adding more chips to Feliksov's stack. It was Annie Duke who bet first into a fourway pot with a flop of . Her 625 was promptly raised by Feliksov to 2,100, only for button Krause to move all in for double that bet. He was duly called:
Feliksov:
Krause:
And with the second on the turn, Krause was already standing up for the blank on the river.
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Upwardly mobile stacks:
Dean Sanders 43,000
Huseyin Yilmaz 41,500
Dario Minieri 33,000
Annie Duke 34,800
[user4144]
Horsing aound earlier in the week
From the floor of the Empire...
Whilst Sarah Taylor rules the roost downstairs, another female player in Jennifer Harman is running the show out on the other four tables with 32,825.
However, what I want to see is Harman take a pot off Andy Bloch so I can use the headline 'Jenny from the Bloch'. I've been preparing this little gem for 2 years now, and have never found the opportunity to use it... until now!
With the nearest table suddenly swamped with railers and cameramen alike, my ears perked up and I raced over to grab the action. Surprisingly, neither Harman or Ferguson were involved, which would have explained the onlooker interest, instead Deepack Parmar and Isaac Baron the two players waging war.
When I joined the action, there was precisely 4,325 in the pot with the board reading . Isaac had bet 3,100 on the river only to be re-raised to 6,650 by Deepack.
Donning an Arsenal shirt, so obviously a not a Londoner (ahem), Deepack adopting a focused pose equipped with first class poker face.
Amid the tension, Harman and Ferguson talked across the table like a couple of housewives at the launderette as they awaited the conclusion of the hand. Meanwhile, Isaac huffed and puffed like the big bad wolf before making the call and being shown .
Isaac mucked without showing leaving Deepack to scoop in the pot quicker than an alligator at feeding time.
[user46298]
SPORTSMAN -- This venue surely must win the action-packed prize for the early session: they've already broken a table and spread the occupants through the room. Annie Duke is grateful for the table change not because she was doing badly in her first seat, but because now she's on 51,000, having just eliminated Christoffer Johnson.
The board read and around 15k per player was in the middle, the cards on their backs.
Duke:
Johnson:
They waited while a TV camera arrived, and Annie Duke said, "At least I can't go broke. The bad news is, he has outs." The river wasn't one of them, though, and Annie Duke cements her chip leader status, saying, "I cold decked him - no skill in that one."
[user25067]
THE FIFTY--Nikolaus Jedlicka opened the pot for 350, Erik Seidel re-raised to 1,675, Nenad Medic called and Thomas Wahlroos came along for the ride as well. The flop was , with everyone checking to Jedlicka, who moved all in for his remaining 10,450. Seidel passed and Medic went into the tank for three minutes or so before making the call. Wahlroos folded.
Jedlicka turned up the for top pair and an open-ended straight draw and was ahead of Medic's . The turn was the , the river was the and Jedlicka's flush earned him what those in his native Austria would call a "monsterpott."
"Erik Seidel gets a lot of respect," Jedlicka joked, as he stacked up his 28,500 in chips, a far cry from the 10,200 he was down to earlier.
[user4144]
Bruno Fitoussi, who finished a commendable 2nd place in July's HORSE event in Vegas, is on exactly 20,000 in chips. But don't fear, it's not because he's enjoying his massage too much and not playing hands as I just witnessed him cross swords with Scandinavian circuiter Rene Pedersen.
On an 8-9-4 rainbow flop, Rene's 1.4k bet was called by Bruno before both players checked the Ace turn. Two checks again on the Ten river led to Rene taking the pot with 8-9 in the hole, but judging by Bruno's bulldog/wasp face, I think Rene missed a bet on the end there.
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. Her 625 was promptly raised by Feliksov to 2,100, only for button Krause to move all in for double that bet. He was duly called:
on the turn, Krause was already standing up for the blank 
on the river.
, William Thorson moved all in for his last 9,750. RW Stain called.
and Stain took the lead with a flush. The river was the 
and a dejected Thorson headed to the rail.
. Isaac had bet 3,100 on the river only to be re-raised to 6,650 by Deepack.
. 
and around 15k per player was in the middle, the cards on their backs.
wasn't one of them, though, and Annie Duke cements her chip leader status, saying, "I cold decked him - no skill in that one."
, with everyone checking to Jedlicka, who moved all in for his remaining 10,450. Seidel passed and Medic went into the tank for three minutes or so before making the call. Wahlroos folded. 
