Jan Skampa is up to 95,000 after knocking out a short stack.
Said shortie raised and then shoved to a reraise from Skampa. It was a relatively clinical affair, and the two shook hands like gentlemen when it was over.
From another member of the media, running past us and back to her desk:
"Annette just won a big pot. Flopped the straight on ace-king-ten and got paid!"
From that, we gather Obrestad held queen-jack, and a quick pass by her table finds her sitting with half again as much as she had just minutes ago. She's still stacking up the pot, but she's right at 60,000 from the looks of it.
27,000 in chips had found their way into the pot by the river of the board, and Rasmus Nielsen in the small blind position bet out 23,000 as a crowd formed around the table. The action was on Ruben Visser.
"It would be such a sick bluff," Visser mused. "You know I don't like folding."
"I'll show you one card," the innocent-looking Nielsen offered.
"Right now?" said Visser hopefully, "Or after I fold?"
He folded.
Nielsen pointed to each of his hole cards in turn, urging Visser to pick which one he wanted to see.
Jan Skampa
A veritable preflop raising war erupted on Table Skampa, as the epoymous Jan in the small blind and his opponent on the button battled it out.
We only caught the tail end of it, but we're imagining the action went thus:
Button raise.
Skampa reraise.
Button make it 13,000.
Skampa make it 50,000.
Button fold.
However it went down, Skampa is now firmly up to 90,000.
With the board reading , Annette Obrestad bet out 5,500 and Patrik Kaltrud folded.
This is notable largely because even after losing this hand, Mr. Kaltrud remains our current chip daddy on around 145,000. Welcome to the top of the chip count pops, Patrik.
Jakob Brun was on the button with Arnaud Mattern in the small blind, and a preflop raising war left Brun all in for just less than 30 big blinds holding . Mattern had the covering stack but the dominated hand as he turned up .
Oh, to be Arnaud. The board ran down , and two pair on the flop wins him the big pot. He shook hands with Brun, almost apologetic, but not quite.
Mattern is up over 125,000 and appears to be the second-largest stack in the room now.
First off, here are some randomly assorted chip counts from around the room:
Ruben Visser - 54,000
Yury Kerzhapkin - 42,000
Thomas Bichon - 18,000
Sami "LarsLuzak" Kelopuro - 29,000
Johan van Til - 30,000
Andrew Pantling - 83,000
We walked over to check on Annette Obrestad, and she noticed us eying up her chips. She began to cut them down and count on her own. "Wow, forty!" she said, looking shocked. "I'm average!" still very surprised. It's the first time Annette's had an average stack since the first level.
As we kept walking around the room, we came upon Peter Hedlund and his healthy stack of 85,000. Just as we approached his table, a new dealer was pushing into the box, and the new guy struck up a conversation with an attractive lady on the rail. "Hey, hey," interrupted Hedlund. "Are you hitting on women or working here?"
"Both. Why?" came the reply from the dealer.
"You can do both," Hedlund joked. "With your tie, you can do both!"
Some loud swearing alerted us to the fact that Martin Wendt had doubled up his opponent, Wendt's pocket queens failing to hold up against when an ace came on the flop.
"Un-f***ing-believable," he growled, as he re-stacked his remaining 49,000. Such is life, Mr. Wendt, such is life.
A bit of a Dario disaster, as the smallest Minieri raised to around 1,800 from the cutoff. The small blind re-popped to 4,000, and Minieri now made it 10,700. Mr. Small Blind flat-called, and they saw a flop.
Flop:
Both players checked, and they proceeded to an eyebrow-raising turn.
Mr. Small Blind checked again and Minieri bet around 10,000; undeterred, Mr. Small Blind called.
They both checked the river and Mr. Small Blind tabled . It was presumably good enough to win, as Minieri mucked and dropped to 60,000.