Matthew Woodward has chips to burn, but that doesn't mean he's happy to lose pots. He opened preflop for 60,000, then watched as action passed all the way to Roger Hairabedian, who moved in for 255,000. There was such a crowd of people around the table that when Woodward called, we couldn't see his hand. It appeared to be significantly worse than Hairabedian's ; after a board of , it didn't matter. Hairabedian's straight gave him the double-up to 520,000.
At the same time that Matthew Woodward was doubling up Roger Hairabedian, Patrick Wymann took a chance at busting Sergio Castellucio, who was all in preflop. Castellucio tabled the best hand, , against for Wymann, then promptly paired his jack on the flop. Yep, it's another double-up for a short stack.
Over on the feature table, Ludovic Lacay raised and it folded right around to Annette Obrestad in the small blind, who pushed for 350,000 or so. A call, and things were looking not fantastic for Obrestad.
Woodward - stomping on everyone
Chip monster Matthew Woodward appears to be absolutely owning his table.
He called an 85,000 raise from Bart Spijkers and there was further betting on the flop (said betting sadly missed owing to an exit happening two tables down; that action to follow). On the turn Spijkers bet out 150,000 with around 500,000 behind, only for Woodward to stick all his orange 25,000 chips, three and a bit stacks amounting to 1,600,000 in total, in the middle, happily covering Spijkers several times over. After a long dwell, Spijkers passed.
Leonardo Pattaconi picked a bad time to call all in. He raised to 80,000 preflop, then called a reraise from Mikhail Tulchinskiy to 220,000. Pattaconi checked a flop of , then hid his face in his hat when Tulchinskiy (who had Pattaconi covered) moved all in. After a minute, Pattaconi called.
Pattaconi:
Tulchinskiy:
Each player made a pair, but Tulchinskiy's aces were best. The turn and river bricked out to send Pattaconi to the rail in 26th place with €45,000 in prize money.
Ami Barer - 25th Place
A declaration of "All in and a call" from the feature table brought a few alert members of the media off of the main rail and onto the stage, where young Ami Barer, one time chip leader in this tournament, was all in with and called by Ludovic Lacay's . There wasn't much drama in this one; the board came out to end Barer's day. He is the last player to leave with €45,000. We're at a pay jump.
Danzer - back to the commentary box
Meanwhile George Danzer, down to shrapnel, open-shoved the hijack and got himself called by Jason Somerville on the button. Over to Eric Qu in the small blind, who re-shoved. After a pause, Somerville passed, and they were heads up for Danzer's tournament life.
Danzer:
Qu:
Baord: (some ooh-ing from the crowd, but it was not to be Danzer's day)
Thus we lose our young German. He was a little sad this morning that he wasn't to be on the feature table, as when he does the EPT Live German commentary he is often asked why he's commentating and not playing; it looks as though his TV dream will not be coming true today.