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The board read by the time we got here and Peter Hedlund seemed to have bet out 11,000 only for Rasmus Nielsen to move all in for another 30,000 or so.
Hedlund looked intense and squinty. Nielsen looked polite and hopeful. Eventually Hedlund folded. "I don't think you can bluff this time," Hedlund told him. Nielsen showed for little more than a flush draw.
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With the flop reading Casper Toft moved all in. After peering at him for a while Sami Kelopuro made the call, but presumably instantly regretted it as Toft doubled up, leaving Kelopuro on just 35,000.
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Very lucky man.
The flop read and Lam Son Nguyen was first to act, Richard Grace behind him. The action went bet-raise-shove-call, and it went that way very quickly. Then they were on their backs, Nguyen's tournament life on the line.
Grace: for a set
Nguyen: for a straight
Turn: Bink! for quads, leaving Nguyen drawing dead
River: a completely irrelevant
Nguyen took the beat very well, and Grace really did look very sorry. He's up to 190,000.
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If you have recently busted out of this tournament and you are wondering what happened, chances are that your former chips are now in the possession of one of these gentlemen.
Patrik Kaltrud - 305,000
Kristoffer Thorsson - 290,000
Juha Helppi - 260,000
Peter Eastgate - 250,000
Morten Guldhammer - 240,000
Paul Szyszko - 215,000
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By the time we arrived at the table there was a flop out and three players in the hand.
Flop:
Henrik Junker bet out 8,000 and behind him Kristoffer Thorsson made the call. Over to overnight chip leader Andrew Pantling in the cutoff, who raised to 26,000.
Junker suddenly sat up as if he had only just realised that he was in the hand. He thought about it for a long time. Then he folded. The action moved back to Thorsson who, with an expression of absolute innocence on his face, announced all in to cover the by now rather reduced Pantling stack. Instafold.
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Jelassi's day is done, too
Speak of the devil. Stefan Mattsson just strolled into the Media Room with Ramzi Jelassi in tow (more on that part later). My Swedish isn't so good, but it's clear from the tone of his conversation that he's less than thrilled to be among the eliminated. It was indeed his pocket kings run down by an opponent's ace-queen. Oh, bother.
And then there's Jelassi, who had been getting short in our last checks. "Uh-oh," said one of his media friends when they saw him enter.
"No, I'm the winner," replied Jelassi. "I knocked everyone out. I have like... 14 million right now." It's a long walk to go check, but we're going to go ahead and guess Jelassi doesn't have 14 million chips. In fact, it appears that he, like Mattsson, has none.
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"Stefan's out," yelled another member of the media as they rushed past us.
We were too surprised to pry for more details, but fortunately we didn't have to.
"Kings cracked by ace-queen," came the rest of the story. Now we all know. Word on the street is that Stefan Mattsson has been eliminated. Something about having his kings cracked.
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Dreadful woe for Anders "So Good They Named Him Twice" Andersen, who pushed for 23,000 to an early position raise from Haykel Vidal. Vidal called, promptly outdrew Andersen, and that was the end of that.
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Sebastian Ruthenberg raised to open the pot, and Pieter Kouijzer three-bet a few seats over. When it came back to Ruthenberg, he moved all in with his covering stack, and Kouijzer made the call for his final 54,200 chips. Cards on their backs, gents.
Showdown
Ruthenberg:
Kouijzer:
The board would run out favorably for the at-risk player: . The two nines hold for Kouijzer, and he's doubled up through Ruthenberg. The Team PokerStars Pro from Germany has slipped back to his Day 2 starting stack of 140,000.
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by the time we got here and Peter Hedlund seemed to have bet out 11,000 only for Rasmus Nielsen to move all in for another 30,000 or so.
for little more than a flush draw.
Casper Toft moved all in. After peering at him for a while Sami Kelopuro made the call, but presumably instantly regretted it as Toft doubled up, leaving Kelopuro on just 35,000.
and Lam Son Nguyen was first to act, Richard Grace behind him. The action went bet-raise-shove-call, and it went that way very quickly. Then they were on their backs, Nguyen's tournament life on the line.
for a set
for a straight
for quads, leaving Nguyen drawing dead
. The two nines hold for Kouijzer, and he's doubled up through Ruthenberg. The Team PokerStars Pro from Germany has slipped back to his Day 2 starting stack of 140,000.
