| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
4,600,000 | 400,000 |
|
3,890,000 | -2,010,000 |
|
3,510,000 | 2,235,000 |
|
|
3,300,000 | -200,000 |
|
2,000,000 | -1,600,000 |
But only for 15 minutes.
The last orbit has seen everyone but Romanello pick up a preflop blinds & antes pot, (Horecki doing it twice with a single preflop raise. This means no change, the stacks stay as they were, and the level ticks down.
Peter Skripka raised to 180,000 under the gun but Marcin Horecki made it All In from the small blind for 2.1 million. Skripka quickly folded 
up, and Horecki took the pot.
A couple hands later, Horecki made the opening raise and Skripka flat-called in the small blind. In the big blind, Roberto Romanello counted out a million chips - and then flat-called. "Can I put these in now?" he asked the dealer, indicating the million chips. The answer was no. "Hold on, dealer," romanello continued, "I feel it's going to be a big flop. I want lots of sixes and fours."
The flop came down 
and Skripka bet out 200,000. One six was clearly not enough for Romanello as he folded; Horecki folded too and Skripka's comeback continued.
Marcin Horecki (who's raise-folded more than the rest of them) opened again preflop (165k) only to find Peter Skripka moving all in for 2.275 million. Romanello, still in the hand at this point, addressed Horecki rather too much:
"He's moving in over you every time. You know he's gonna do it."
Romanello and Bono folded, and Horecki, with 
and probably having noticed that Skripka did this quite a bit himself, was disappointed to see his 
when he made the call.
The board rolled out 
bringing Skripka back to life (over 5 million) and undoing all of Horecki's hard work this level.
Roberto Romanello has slipped slightly in the last couple of orbits, with Emilliano Bono benefitting from the last loss of chips.
The action folded to Mr Romanello in the cutoff and he raised it up to 160,000, or twice the big blind. Bono, on the button, quickly reraised to 430,000 and when the rest of the table folded Romanello started his ritual of interogating his opponent.
"You wanna gamble?" he initially asked, before informing Bono that "I have a pocket pair."
Bono's face remained devoid of emotion, even when he was asked, "You have ace-king?"
Romanello finally folded and Bono, uncharacteristically silently mucked his hand,
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
5,900,000 | 1,400,000 |
|
|
4,200,000 | -1,645,000 |
|
|
3,600,000 | 50,000 |
|
|
3,500,000 | 200,000 |
|
|
1,275,000 | 75,000 |
It folded around to Peter Skripka in the small blind, who promptly raised to 1.1 million, with a mere 30,000 behind. Roberto Romanello in the big blind tanked up for some time.
"Im gonna put you all in with minimum king ten," he said.
"Come on," said Sripka.
"Now I know king ten is good," decided Romanello. "Will you show if I fold?"
"No."
Still Romanello folded, and Skripka showed him 
anyway.
Next hand, Marcin Horecki raised to 165,000 under the gun and Skripka shoved, this time from the button, and for actually his whole stack. Emilliano Bono in teh big blind looked as though he was considering it but ultimately didn't bother; Horecki folded too and Skripka edged back up to around 1.5 million.
Roberto Romanello has turned his attention to Marco Leonzio, demonstrating passing to his 'Italian friend.'
"Is it your big blind, Marco?" asked Romanello, throwing away his cards. "Marco, you see the difference? My friend - see - I pass. You always want to play against me! I tell you in Italian [something sounding like Italian, which made Bono laugh]. You understand now? I don't have to tell you no more."
Addressing Bono: "I'm telling Marco to learn how to pass."
At the moment Romanello out-talks everyone at the table about 100 words to 1.
Roberto Romanello was willing to take on the table short stack Peter Skripka just now, making it 600k (an 'I'm not folding' bet) over Skripka's open to 200k. It passed back to the Russian, who folded, showing an ace, and leaving himself under 1.3 million.
