Xavier Detournel limped in preflop and Luca Pagano made it 800 to go. In seat 1, Tommaso Palasciano Villamagna made it 2,125 which got rid of Detournel, but Pagno called and they went heads up to the flop.
Flop:
Villamagna bet out 2,725 and Pagano made the call.
Turn:
Villamagna bet out an additional 4,800. Undeterred, Pagano called again and they proceeded to the river.
River:
This time Villamagna bet 10,100 and after a pause, Pagano called again. Villamagna had to reveal for ace-high, and Pagano's modest were good enough to take the pot. He's up to 42,500 now.
What started of as a hand with plenty of potential after Melanie Weisner opened from under the gun to 625 and received two callers from the blinds, quickly turned into a rather pointless exercise!
All three players checked the flop, then the turn and finally the river. Weisner turned over , which was enough to scoop the pot.
See not all of live poker tournament reporting is watching kings run into aces on the bubble for a 34,000,000 pot! Rock and roll!
Stephen Devlin is busto after being teased with preflop Aces, only to be set upon by Max Lykov with his pocket sevens. The preflop betting was finished by Lykov making what was described by a PokerNews informant as 'a large shove,' called by Devlin. A seven on the river sent him packing.
Leading those remaining in is Giuseppe Pantaleo now, with a 77,000 stack towering over his table.
Martin Hruby, wearing an inexplicable inflatable Rastafarian hat-type apparatus, comes over to laugh at his victim.
The hairdresser has now followed Palovic back to his table where he looks like a very curious sort of masseur. We understand that the addition of the PokerStars logo to the haircut will take place during the next break.
So Dag Palovic had a prop bet with Team PokerStars Pro Martin Hruby. They played 75 heads-up matches, and Hruby won 38 to 37 - as close as you can get. Palovic's forfeit was to have his hair shaved, bleached, and decorated with the PokerStars logo. Owing to the time-consuming nature of hair bleaching (why do you think ElkY's always late for tournaments?), this will be taking place over the next few hours.
Italian Matteo Taddia has just boosted his stack to around the 47,000 chip mark after he represented a monster hand preflop and the rest of his table believed him.
Nicolas Chouity started the betting from early position with a raise to 350, Jani Sointula flat called but the player in Seat 9 three-bet to 1,150. Max Lykov, on the button, asked how many chips the three-better had before opting to simply call.
Next to act, Taddia put in a further raise to 4,700, enough to fold out everyone who had previously invested chips in the pot!
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for ace-high, and Pagano's modest 
were good enough to take the pot. He's up to 42,500 now.
flop, then the 
river. Weisner turned over 
, which was enough to scoop the pot.
