So said Lance Funston after Carter Phillips took down a pretty big pot which took honestly about 12 minutes from start to finish. This was mainly down to the participation of a short stacked Jani Sointula, who together with the others saw a flop of . Sointula slowly checked, Phillips bet 7,600, called by both Funston and Sointula (slowly).
The turn was checked around, but not the river. Phillips bet 19k when Sointula checked a third time. In-position Funston made the call, but the silky-haired Finn passed (leaving himself under 40k).
Phillips flipped which had leaped ahead of Funston's on the river.
"What a suckout!" exclaimed Funston, although there have been a lot more wince-worthy ones in the vicinity today. "It's nice to have all those chips," he added, eyeing up Phillips' 220k stack.
Laurent Polito has just been eliminated. Over a mid-position raise (21k) from Riku Vihreasaari, Polito shoved for 46,100 on the button. It would have been an easier decision for Vihreasaari, if the under the gun player hadn't also then gone all in for 100k+. He thought for a while and then mucked with frustration, but found Polito with and the utg player (newly moved, not yet identified) with .
The was the first card visible on the flop. "Oh la la la la la," commented Polito, sadly shaking his head as the rest bricked out.
Greco - :(
We're not exactly sure how the action went, but one Jean Claude Perrot was all in on the big blind by the time we got there, a lot of chips were in front of Michael Greco in the hijack, and the cutoff had moved all in too. Action was back on Greco. Eventually he folded face up, and was absolutely horrified when the other two turned over their cards.
Cutoff:
Perrot (not Negreanu, as he claimed):
Board:
"Yay!" cried Perrot as he tripled up. Meanwhile the cutoff made a fine profit on the side pot, and Greco fumed.
Ami Barer - Back from leading to average stack
Two big stacks collided - those of Ami Barer and Sami Kelopuro - in the last seconds of the level just ended. On the river, a crowd gathered, partly because Kelopuro bet 55k, and partly because most of the other tables had gone on break already and there wasn't that much to watch.
The board was . Barer thought for a while and made the call, but mucked quickly when he saw Kelopuro's .
Sam Chartier, who since his earlier table move has gained a few chips and is now on 220,000, just got into a strange situation vs. a player on the button whose seat list number has him as Uffe Holm. Chartier bet 6,400 on a flop of , called by Holm. Both players checked the turn, but Chartier bet out 14k on the river. He found a raise to 30k pretty fast, though, and spent several minutes considering his options, assessing his opponent's stack and his own. He pased, though.
... And Boom Goes the Dynamite
Sorry, Rolf fans. Your boy is out of the tournament. A massive pile of chips were in the middle, with Slotboom standing up as the board showed . One opponent opened up an unimproved . Slotboom never showed his hand, so we can only assume that he couldn't beat ace-high. He's out, in any event.
. Sointula slowly checked, Phillips bet 7,600, called by both Funston and Sointula (slowly).
was checked around, but not the 
river. Phillips bet 19k when Sointula checked a third time. In-position Funston made the call, but the silky-haired Finn passed (leaving himself under 40k).
which had leaped ahead of Funston's 
on the river. 
and the utg player (newly moved, not yet identified) with 
.
was the first card visible on the flop. "Oh la la la la la," commented Polito, sadly shaking his head as the rest bricked out.
. Barer thought for a while and made the call, but mucked quickly when he saw Kelopuro's 
turn, but Chartier bet out 14k on the 
. One opponent opened up an unimproved 
