We found a three-handed pot in progress on a flop of . Yorane Kerignard checked from the big blind, and Morten Guldhammer led out with a bet of 120,000. The third man in the hand was Richard Loth, and he stuck in a raise to 290,000. That was enough to quickly fold Kerignard, but Guldhammer wasn't going anywhere. Reaching for chips, he made it 520,000 straight.
It was another 230,000 for Kerignard to call, representing a significant chunk of his remaining stack. After a few minutes of tank time, he decided his best bet was to fold, saving his remaining 800,000 chips for a better spot.
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We're still nine-handed at the unofficial final table, and the players have been sent off for a 15-minute break (of which a few minutes have already elapsed). We'll be back with Level 24 shortly.
Mr. Kerignard
Yorane Kerignard opened for 55,000 and it folded around to Morten Guldhammer in the small blind, who reraised to 550,000 to more or less cover Kerignard.
Kerignard tanked up for some time, clearly mentally debating what to do with a marginal sort of hand. He eventually re-reraised the extra 2,000 to 552,000 or all in, and was soon very glad he did.
Kerignard:
Guldhammer: a lacklustre but still very live
Board: wait for it....
... !
Guldhammer made a full house but Kerignard's quad aces were emphatically the winning hand there. He doubled to 1.146 million, and though Guldhammer is still in the lead on 2.6 million, the gap is closing somewhat.
Overheard in the players' lounge, a conversation involving the hawaiian-shirted, beer-in-hand, laughing-like-a-hyena Peter Hedlund:
Peter Hedlund: "Wait, what are you talking about?"
Some random: "I gave up drinking. I thought I told you that."
Peter Hedlund: "You mean you gave up life?! Why would you do that?"
The field has been recombined into one table of nine, and we'll play on for one more knockout before calling it a night. This is an important redraw, as tomorrow's final table will use the same seats. Here's how things look:
Seat 1: Jesper Petersen (1,246,000)
Seat 2: Francesco De Vivo (2,235,000)
Seat 3: Yorane Kerignard (706,000)
Seat 4: Magnus Hansen (1,165,000)
Seat 5: Anton Wigg (957,000)
Seat 6: Morten Guldhammer (2,664,000)
Seat 7: Richard Loth (960,000)
Seat 8: Roberto Romanello (1,630,000)
Seat 9: Morten Klein (1,213,000)
Paul Szyszko has been nursing his shortening stack for a long while, and he finally found a good spot to try and double. First in from the small blind, Szyzsko peeked down at and shipped it in there.
Big blind Magnus Borg Hansen looked down at and asked for a count. "About two-forty," said Szyszko.
"Call," came the instant reply from Hansen. The cards were turned up, Szyzsko a small favorite to double up and stay alive. The odds weren't on his side this time, unfortunately. The board ran out , and Szyszko could only smile and wish his table luck as he headed for the payout desk.
We're now out of Americans here at EPT Copenhagen, and it will be a European of some variety that ends up taking this thing down tomorrow.
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. Yorane Kerignard checked from the big blind, and Morten Guldhammer led out with a bet of 120,000. The third man in the hand was Richard Loth, and he stuck in a raise to 290,000. That was enough to quickly fold Kerignard, but Guldhammer wasn't going anywhere. Reaching for chips, he made it 520,000 straight.
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and shipped it in there.
, and Szyszko could only smile and wish his table luck as he headed for the payout desk.
