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Wow, craziness up on the main feature table.
The flop read and Devilfish was all in. James Akenhead was his opponent.
Akenhead: for the straight
Devilfish: for an overpair and the up and down
Turn:
River: !
A load of "Ooooh!"s around the table indicated that Devilfish had made a higher straight, and doubled up to 335,000. Akenhead meanwhile dropped to 207,000.
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We're not sure how it happened, but Men Nguyen seems to have jumped from the 30,000 he'd been perched on for most of the day to an impressive 170,000.
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Praz Bansi
The table in the middle of the room upstairs has more chips than a Lays factory at the moment with Praz Bansi your current chip leader. The Hit Squadder is on a whopping 580,000 (!)
Also on that table is Steven Fung (550,000) and Yevgeniy Timoshenko (500,000).
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By the by, a load of the stacks on Julian Thew's table have moved around.
It's maintained the title of Most Chipped Up Table for a while now, but the chips are not necessarily where you'd think.
Praz Bansi - 490,000 (up)
Yevgeniy Timoshenko - still on 500,000 or so (down a little)
Fung - 550,000 or so (up, from that enormous hand)
Tony Cousineau - 290,000 (up)
Ian Munns - 110,000 (way down)
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Julian Thew got his last in with preflop, up against Praz Bansi's . Thewy was already standing up to leave, but the board came down and he sat back down to his new, doubled-up 99,000 stack.
"That's what I was hoping you had," said Bansi who, still on 490,000, didn't seem to begrudge Thew the lifeline.
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Jens Kyllönen
Peter Gould is currently floating through space after turning 9,400 into 275,000 within the space of a level. "I can vouch for that," said Doyle. "Not a bad person to have vouch for you," added Gould.
His latest victim was Jens Kyllönen, the Finnish EPT winner. Having - I must assume - raised from late position and been called in the big blind by Gould, Kyllönen called all-in on a flop with . He was ahead, but needed his dodging hips in top condition as Gould tabled .
But ahead turned to behind on the turn, before the river brought overkill and awarded Gould with not only the pot, but also the scalp. Trips and flush? Pure greed.
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We approached one of the upstairs tables to see an enormous pot developing between chip monsters Yevgeniy Timoshenko and Steven Fung. When we arrived, the board read .
The action as we witnessed it:
- Timoshenko checked
- Fung bet 46,000
- Timoshenko called
- river
- Timoshenko checked
- Fung bet 99,000
- Timoshenko folded
Except obviously all of this took around 10 minutes, plus another five minutes for the TV people to do things afterwards.
The pot was pretty huge, and the chip lead changed hands at the end of it -- Fung is up to 580,000 while Timoshenko drops to 485,000.
Timoshenko was giggling as Fung exposed his hole cards to the camera."Dude! The suspense is going to kill me!"
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Not because he's lost a big pot or anything -- but Keith "Camel" Hawkins, newly moved to the upstairs feature table, has fallen foul of the TV crew.
As is common among poker players, he was perched on two chairs, stacked one on top of the other, but this was apparently preventing one of the cameras from seeing the relatively diminutive figures of Men Nguyen and Arnaud Mattern across the table.
"But my back and neck were hurting," Camel was complaining to the director. Nevertheless, he eventually gave in and now has just one chair like everyone else.
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Peter Gould raised it up, Michael Fasco three-bet, and Gould called. On an flop, Gould check-raised Fasco's bet of 27,000; Fasco folded before Gould had barely put his chips in the pot.
Gould is now on 190,000 after being down to a bowl of rice not too long ago. Brunson pointed this out. "Yeah," said Gould. "You can dream." "Sometimes dreams come true," replied Texas Doyle with his trademark smile.
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and Devilfish was all in. James Akenhead was his opponent.
for the straight
for an overpair and the up and down
!
preflop, up against Praz Bansi's 
. Thewy was already standing up to leave, but the board came down 
and he sat back down to his new, doubled-up 99,000 stack.
. He was ahead, but needed his dodging hips in top condition as Gould tabled 
turn, before the 
river brought overkill and awarded Gould with not only the pot, but also the scalp. Trips and flush? Pure greed.
