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Ganesh Bathmanathan, he whose enormo-stack after knocking out Raymond Rahme prompted the introduction of the blue 5,000-denomination chips, has picked up even more.
We caught up with the action on the turn of the board, with Bathmanathan betting and Oskar Silow calling. "Wow, you called," noted Bathmanathan. "Next time I check."
The river came down the and duly Bathmanathan announced check. Silow checked behind, and his was no good against Bathmanathan's .
Bathmanathan is up to 160,000. Our chip leader, however, remains JP Kelly, with 190,000.
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Alexander Mellby open shoved from under the gun, only for Martin Green to some over the top just one seat along.
Mellby =
Green =
Board =
Little reaction from either player - both as statuesque as the other - just a tap of the table from Green, and an approving nod from Mellby, and that was that.
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JP Kelly is back to being chip leader after a large and curious pot.
He raised preflop an got himself called by both Anthony Roux to his left and Said Englund in the big blind. They saw an flop, and Englund checked to Kelly, who bet. Roux called, Englund folded, and the proceeded to the turn.
Kelly now bet out a whopping 22,000. Roux dwelled for some time, looking rather sad. After a while he sighed, and folded.
Roux is down to 68,000, while Kelly the air must be pretty thin up where Kelly is, on 190,000.
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A huge roar emanated from one end of the casino (mainly deriving from one person), as Ganesh Bathmanathan doubled through courtesy of Raymond Rahme.
I joined the action with a board festering in the middle as stacks were being counted. The action seemed self-explanatory: Rahme raising from the cut-off, Bathmanathan pushing from the big blind and Rahme making the call.
There was a little confusion as to whether Rahme had his man covered, but as the South African gradually counted out the circa 65,000 required, it soon emerged that it was the other way around. "All in," said Rahme with a acknowledging smile as he conceded his final colum of chips.
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It folded to Chris Ferguson in the small blind, who did the decent thing and shoved. Big blind Thor Drexel was not in the slightest bit interested, though, and Ferguson picked up the blinds.
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David Stucke opened from mid position, John Buttifant three-bet all in from the small blind and, following a minute or two in the think tank, Stucke made the call.
1) Stephane Reusser
2) Giovanni Paticchio -- now busted
3) Said Englund
4) David Stucke
5) JP Kelly
6) Anthony Roux
7) James Tomlin
8) John Buttifant
9) Mikael Andersson
Table 2
1) William Martin
2) Fabien Dunlop
3) Chris Ferguson
4) Matthias de Meulder
5) Thor Drexel
6) Richard Allen
7) Alex Mellby
8) Martin Green
9) Kate Hearn
Table 3
1) Swee Chai
2) Neil Suarez
3) Raymond Rahme
4) Stephane Hansen
5) Ganesh Bathmanathan
6) Ian Frazer
7) Adnan Alshamah
8) Toni Huyne
9) Oskar Silow
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board, with Bathmanathan betting and Oskar Silow calling. "Wow, you called," noted Bathmanathan. "Next time I check."
and duly Bathmanathan announced check. Silow checked behind, and his 
was no good against Bathmanathan's 
flop, and Englund checked to Kelly, who bet. Roux called, Englund folded, and the proceeded to the 
turn.
board festering in the middle as stacks were being counted. The action seemed self-explanatory: Rahme raising 
from the big blind and Rahme making the call.
