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Alexander Morozov - 15th Place
The next hand after the elimination of Sergio Castelluccio, Eric Qu opened the pot for 125,000. Alexander Morozov actually had something to think about this time before he moved all in for 150,000. Annette Obrestad called from the big blind. Qu, after some confusion about the size of the pot, called as well.
The flop was . Obrestad checked and quickly folded to a sizable bet from Qu. He opened , top pair of queens and a horrible holding for Morozov, who showed down . The on the turn ended Morozov's run in 15th place.
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Shah - yah!
It folded around to Alem Shah, freshly moved over from the feature table, in the small blind. He shoved without a moment's hesitation. Marc Naalden in the big blind chuckled, and called.
Naalden:
Shah:
Shah looked grim as he waited for the TV crew to arrange themselves around the table and the board to be dealt, but he had nothing to worry about.
Board:
With a "Yah!", a fist pump and a high five to his buddy at the rail, Shah is up to 1,500,000, while a sanguine Naalden is down to 2,500,000.
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Pieter De Korver made it 130,000 preflop, and Mikhail Tulchinskiy in the big blind, currently being railed by countryman Alex Kravchenko, called. Come the flop, Tulchinskiy bet out 160,000, eliciting a long dwell from De Korver, his eyebrow muscles twitching furiously behind his sunglasses. Eventually he passed. De Korver is down to 1,700,000 currently.
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Back-to-back hands have decimated bright-eyed Johannes Strassmann's stack. He tangled first with Daniel Zink, calling a raise to 125,000 from the small blind. Zink fired out a bet of 175,000 after Strassmann checked the flop. Strassmann called that bet, then tank-folded to a bet of 425,000 when the turn paired the board .
The next hand, Strassmann was on the button and called a 125,000-chip raise from the under-the-gun player, Peter Traply. Traply was first to act on a flop of . He bet almost the full pot, 245,000. Strassmann called and got a free card when both players checked the turn. That brought the action to the river, which was a blank, the . Into a pot of roughly 850,000, Traply bet 665,000 chips.
Strassmann tanked for several minutes, playing with his chip stacks and faking moving them into the middle, perhaps trying to get a read on Traply. Traply was stock still. With a deep breath, Strassmann finally pushed in a call. Traply turned over for a full house, fives full of queens. Strassmann looked ill, then mucked his hand.
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Chips - these are not moving around a lot
Play has tightened up considerably since the last couple of eliminations, with almost every pot on both tables being taken down by a simple raise preflop. Players have even given up taking down pots preflop with a reraise, as seemed to be the trend an hour or two ago. Perhaps what our remaining runners need right now is a dinner break to perk up and reset. Looks as though that's exactly what's going to happen in around 10 minutes. We'll keep you up to date with any unlikely fireworks that take place before then.
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Strassmann - lady behind him horrified by something she has seen
No sooner had I posted that nothing was likely to happen before the dinner break then we lost Johannes Strassmann from the feature table.
He shoved under the gun, and it folded around to Peter Traply, who re-shoved for 3,000,000. All fold.
Strassmann:
Traply:
Flop:
"Ah, scheisse," said one of Strassmann's railers.
Turn:
Strassmann stood up and pushed his chair in, ready to leave.
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Dinner was at a lovely little spot, right on the beach. Wine and beer around the table, along with an assortment of pizzas, salads and veals. Very tasty.
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Back in the entirely not-on-the-beach shadows of the card room, play is underway.
Marc Naalden has been getting busy, raising in early position and finding a caller in Eric Qu in the small blind. Qu checked the flop, though, and swiftly gave it up to a 200,000 bet from Naalden.
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. Obrestad checked and quickly folded to a sizable bet from Qu. He opened 
, top pair of queens and a horrible holding for Morozov, who showed down 
. The 
on the turn ended Morozov's run in 15th place.
flop. Strassmann called that bet, then tank-folded to a bet of 425,000 when the turn paired the board 
.
. He bet almost the full pot, 245,000. Strassmann called and got a free card when both players checked the 
for a full house, fives full of queens. Strassmann looked ill, then mucked his hand.
flop, though, and swiftly gave it up to a 200,000 bet from Naalden.
