A really big pot had formed by the time we caught up with the action on the river. The board read , and the bet from the very awesomely named Fabian Gentile was a whopping 80,000.
His opponent Tim Pedersen sat back in his chair, looking unhappy. "Full house?" he hazarded but didn't act. Eventually he decided he couldn't fold his hand and made the huge call for around half his remaining stack.
Gentile turned over for the top full house.
"Damn it!" shouted Pedersen, "You lucky f***." He threw his for the broadway straight down on the table and then he stormed off. When he returned it was to a very much reduced 70,000 stack. Gentile meanwhile is up to around 300,000.
We arrived to see Juha Helppi putting in some kind of bet - it looked as though he was check-raising the flop. Jens Kyllonen on the button thought about it for a moment and then made the call.
The turn was the and Helppi thought about it for a long time; eventually he checked. Kyllonen now bet 20,000, forcing Helppi to fold. Kyllonen grinned impishly, started to show his cards and then thought better of it, then realised that half the table had seen them anyway, and finally turned them over so that Helppi could see too.
Another unfortunate who won't be making the money is Anders Beckman. He got it in racing against Tim Pedersen but was soon in a lot of trouble, and Beckman found himself drawing dead by the turn.
We arrived to see Bjorn Verbakel all in and up against Andrew Teng. We'd like to think the chips went in before the flop, but it's possible they went in on it.
Forty-five minutes of eating and napping have come and gone in a flash. The remaining 112 players are back in their seats and ready for two more levels of action.
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Tomas Brolin was just eliminated when his was out-flopped by an opponent's . The flop brought both an ace and a five, and a second five on the turn left Brolin drawing dead to a chop. One blank river card later, and his day was done.
On the other side of the room, Johnny Lodden was involved in a pretty sizable pot considering his stack size. He and Stefan Nielsen put a 27,000-chip pile into the middle of the table going to the turn on a board that read . When fourth street dropped, Nielsen bet 13,000. It was only half the pot, but it was also nearly half of Lodden's remaining stack. After several minutes of agonizing debate, Mr. Lodden figured the best course of action was to fold and wait for a better spot. That's just what he did, slipping back into the danger zone with about 31,000.
There can be only one contender today, and it is Mr. Roberto Romanello.
Starting the day on just 19,000, Mr. Romanello is currently in possession of just a little shy of 300,000.
"I just went on a crazy rush, really," he explained initially, before breaking it down.
The relevant hands went like so:
1) His flushed against his opponent's pocket nines for his first double up of the day.
2) He raised with pocket sixes and turned a set only for a gentleman to move in on the river. Romanello called, his opponent mucked, and that put Romanello up to around 100,000.
3) He got it in with against pocket kings, spiked, and was up to 200,000.