Also steaming ahead on the double-up express is young French mademoiselle Alexia Portal. She got it in with against an opponent's , we believe on the flop of a board, and is now up to a respectable 23,000.
After his impressive (more than) double up, Bill Chen has apparently been on a rampage. He found a few more chips from somewhere, and eventually got involved on a flop. His opponent bet a chunky 3,850, and Chen pushed for another 10,000 or so. After some dwelling and squirming, his opponent called, and Chen couldn't have been more ahead.
Chen:
Unhappy opponent:
Turn:
River:
Chen resumed giggling, and well he might, as he is now up to around 30,000 after spending much of today on less than ten big blinds.
Sami Kelopuro and Ljubomir Josipovic have turned into a two-man wrecking crew on Table 3. Each player has accumulated more than 60,000 chips, with Josipovic's 67,000 chips seemingly vying for the tournament lead. The two players are located at opposite ends of the table and no doubt are enjoying hammering the unfortunate opponents caught in between.
With a sizable pot amassed by the turn of the board, Martin Lundegren checked to Ivo Donev on the button. Donev, almost entirely obscured behind his shades and the hood of his entirely unnecessary raincoat, bet 9,000. Call.
Come the river, Lundegren checked again. Donev removed his hood -- for after all, it seldom rains in the card room. He thought things over, counted his chips, counted Lundegren's chips, and then checked behind.
Lundegren:
Donev didn't actually show, but said he had .
Lundegren is propelled up to 36,000, while Donev dips to around 23,000.
PokerNews' Gloria Balding caught up with Team PokerStars Pro Noah Boeken to chat about his day at the table. Unfortunately, Glo brought a bit of bad luck to the young pro as he would find himself sitting on the rail just a few minutes later.
Francisco Muratori, very recently among our chip leaders, is down to a much less impressive 23,500. Not sure how the rest went, but at least some of it went to new tablemate Liam Flood. "I sucked out on him," whispered Flood to me, "I made a flush on the river against him."
The board was showing in a three-way pot. Isabelle Mercier was on the button and bet 2,300 when action was checked to her. Both of her opponents called, for a sizable three-way river that fell . Everyone checked, with Mercier turning over first. That two pair, tens and aces, was the winning pot and pushed Mercier's chip count up to 16,000.