There was a ten on the flop and there was a ten on the turn. Beyond that, we're not terribly sure what happened - but at the end of the hand, Jeff Sarwer turned over to drop down to less than 80,000, while Juha Lauttamus flipped to move up to 190,000.
"That wasn't a very good turn for me," said Sarwer, unnecessarily.
Juan Carlos Navarro limped into the pot in middle position, and Antony Lellouche raised to 5,200 from the small blind. Andre Paiva has chips to splash around with, and both he and Navarro came along with calls.
Three-handed then, the flop came out , and Lellouche fired 9,500 chips. That drew a raise to 24,000 from Paiva and a quick fold from Navarro. Lellouche didn't waste too much time making the call, and the dropped on the turn. Paiva checked behind Lellouche this time, and the river came the . When Lellouche checked again, Paiva stuck in a bet of 26,000. Lellouche cut the calling chips out of his stack and toyed with the decision for a couple minutes before folding.
Paiva proudly showed his , and Lellouche tapped the felt in acknowledgement of the bluff. That pot moves Paiva up to abou 150,000, and Lellouche down to about 80,000.
Almost all of Marcel Luske's chips went in preflop, and come the flop his last 1,500 or so went in. Arnaud Mattern made the inevitable call, and they were on their backs.
Disaster for Nicolas Levi and happy days for Jeff Sarwer, as they saw a flop.
A third player bet out, but Sarwer raised it to 18,000 on the button and Levi in the big blind made it an apparently random number of yellow 5,000-denomination chips. Mr. Third Player realized that he was a third wheel and folded, Sarwer thought about it for a moment and then put his whole stack across the line, Levi agreed to call, and they were on their backs.
Levi:
Sarwer:
Turn: , in case it matters
River:
"I had no intention of slow-rolling, you know that," said a very concerned Sarwer, who more than doubled up to 165,000. Levi, who was knocked right back down to 40,000, just nodded slowly.
Thanks to our Dutch friends at pokernews.nl for witnessing and then sharing the following information, via the medium of Marc Naalden:
Yann Brosolo four-bet preflop, called by the gentleman between Naalden and Patrick de Koster. Brosolo bet out on the flop and Mr. Next To de Koster called; Brosolo then went all in on the turn. Mr. Next To de Koster called and his pocket kings were way ahead of Brosolo's pocket fives - but a third five on the river gave Brosolo a full house, and he is now breakaway chip leader on 350,000.
We just walked up to the tail end of a hand as we saw Bernard Boutboul standing and shaking hands with his (former) table. In the middle of the felt was an ace-high board, and the player next to him was dragging in the chips with for king-high. We're not sure what cards Boutboul got his short stack into the middle with (possibly ), but either way, his day is done.