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I thought it might be interesting to watch the chip leader Jani Vilmunen get to work in the first level of the day, with a stack which looks like it is impervious to blinds. However, it wasn't really. The only hand I saw which looked like it could go somewhere was against Tony Bloom, where Bloom made it 5k to go and Vilmunen quietly threw in one blue chip for the call (he's got so many, one wouldn't be missed).
They proceeded to check it down, and Vilmunen won the small pot, fiddled with his tub of Snus (a Scandinavian tobacco product you get in small circular tins and then place in your mouth like a teabag) and went back to silently regarding the table. Since we're photographerless today, I think a brief description is in order: The hair of Alexander Kravchenko, the coat-of-arms-with-lions-and-sword-with-wings pinstripe jacket of Robbie Williams, the calmly destructive poker demeanour of any successful Finnish poker player.
[user46392]
Dwan versus Rees again, and it looks like Rees is rather getting the best of Mr. durrrr.
We caught up with the action on the turn, the board reading . Dwan had checked, and Rees had bet 10,000. Call.
They saw a river and Dwan checked again. This time Rees bet 14,000, prompting a medium-length dwell complete with trademark durrrr eyebrow-raising and confused blinking shenanigans. Eventually he called, but mucked when Rees turned over for trips.
[user46392]
It looks as though Samuel Ngai has made a quiet exit from Table 1, meaning that we are down to 30 runners. There will be a complete redraw at 27.
[user46392]
A curious hand which came to nothing, but not until after a whole load of chips had changed hands.
Tony Bloom raised and chip leader Jani Vilmunen called. Over to Ashton Griffin in the small blind, who reraised pot. Bloom called, Vilmunen decided not to risk his chip leader status and folded, and they saw a flop.
Flop:
Without any fuss, Griffin bet out pot, an expression of complete innocence on his face. Bloom dwelled for some minutes, but ultimately opted for the fold.
[user46298]
Noah Boeken has built back a few chips - currently he's on 52k - and the last couple came from Daniel Hindin. I remember Hindin from yesterday, when he was still an unknown quantity, talking very loudly in American with another gent at his table after doubling through with KKxx vs AAxx which he admitted was pretty lucky. It seems that he's ruffled the usually easygoing Boeken, presumably with his table talk - just now when Boeken took down a medium sized pot against him, he said something along the lines of "Nice hand... 6-8-9-T, you call a raise... Where are you from?"
"None of your business," replied Boeken, "You're not from here, that's for sure. You talk too much anyway."
"Finland? Sweden? Norway?"
"Norway," finally replied Boeken, which seemed to satisfy his behoodied questioner.
Guess Hindin hasn't seen the TV ads in which Boeken exhorts us to find the poker stars in us.
[user46392]
Dan Shak is busto -- all we saw was the board reading and Tony Bloom raking in the pot, but whatever happened there, the result is the same -- out he goes.
[user46298]
Back to under 60k, Tom Dwan got some more action from Sorel Mizzi - to the tune of a full double up. On a heads up flop, Durrrr found himself with a flopped house: which Mizzi looked up with . The turn and river were unlikely to help, and didn't, and shaking his head counted out the chips to hand them over.
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. Dwan had checked, and Rees had bet 10,000. Call.
river and Dwan checked again. This time Rees bet 14,000, prompting a medium-length dwell complete with trademark durrrr eyebrow-raising and confused blinking shenanigans. Eventually he called, but mucked when Rees turned over 
for trips.
flop, Durrrr found himself with a flopped house: 
. The turn and river 
were unlikely to help, and didn't, and shaking his head counted out the chips to hand them over.
