Luca Pagano opened to around 6,000 under the gun and it folded all the way around to Antoine Saout in the big blind, who re-popped to 15,300. After a few moments' thought, Pagano called.
Both players checked the flop and they saw a turn for free. Saout tanked up long enough for the dealer to appear as though his soul had left his body, before betting out 11,600. Over to Pagano, who tanked for even longer but eventually gave it up.
Saout increased his stack to 100,000, announcing, "The nuts," and flashing his table a rare smile. Pagano dipped to 95,000.
Dominik Nitsche sits proudly behind a 230,000 stack of chips after check-raising Jonas Gutteck off his hand on the flop.
Nitsche raised preflop and was called by Gutteck in the cutoff seat. The dealer put out the flop, and Nitsche tapped the table and looked very uninterested. He soon perked up though when Gutteck put out a bet of 8,100. After asking how many chips he had behind, Nitsche paused for a few moments before check-raising to 33,000.
Without too much thought, Gutteck mucked his hand, jokingly asking, "Bottom set no good?" prompting a wry smile from his opponent.
Nitsche climbs to 230,000 whilst Gutteck falls to 170,000
Michael Keiner, having displayed excellent grinding skills so far today, got his final ~35,000 in with a good shot at a double through. There was a circle of media around the table which as one murmured, "Oooh," which alerted everyone else to the fact of an outdraw taking place.
Sure enough, Emilliano Bono with had outdrawn Keiner's on a board.
Blind on blind, Milous Artjoms and Ludovit Fischer looked ready to build a big pot, but it went no further than the flop. Artjoms raised to 5,300 when it folded to him in the small blind, and Fischer raised to 15,000, immediately adopting 'The Hellmuth' position (totally still, fists over mouth, black sunglasses). Artjoms thought for over two minutes, had the clock called on him, and immediately called.
Artjoms check-folded the rainbow flop quickly, and was shown . He looked relieved.
The media are like vultures around short-stacked, big-name pros, and there was a crowd of them hovering around Amsterdam Master Classics winner Kristoffer Thorsson's table. We didn't have to wait long, as he soon pushed his last last 24,300 into the middle from early position. Mikhail Lakhitov in the small blind gave it some serious thought but ultimately folded. The big blind folded too Thorsson moved up to the heady heights of 30,000 - the Day 1 starting stack, currently around 12 and a half big blinds.
So Thorsson shoved again the very next hand and this time Lakhitov made the call.
Thorsson:
Lakhitov:
Board:
"Nice hand, good luck," said the affable Thorsson, and he was gone.
We've not had an official Table of Doom so far in this tournament but Table 4 must come very close to being just that.
Currently seated there are Team PokerStars Pros Liv Boeree and Marcin Horecki, Franciso Torres, Mikael Norinder, David Sonelin, Kevin Stani and Fabrice Soulier. Pretty Doomy if you ask me, in fact I will go out on a limb and officially announce Table 4 as "The Table of Doom!"
Mikhail Lakhitov is up to the heady heights of 320,000 after knocking out another player - this time with against Ronan Collet's pocket jacks, a king dropping on the river.
Yury Kerzhapkin just put Toby Lewis to the test but the young Brit did not take the bait and simply folded his hand.
Yonatan Basin raised to 5,200 from late position and when the hijack folded, Toby Lewis made the call. No soon had he done so, Kerzhapkin moved all in from the big blind! Basin folded but Lewis seemed a little more interested in his hand and asked his opponent for a count.
"51,600" came the reply from the dealer, not actually from Kerzhapkin himself. Ninety seconds later and Lewis' hand hit the muck.
Painful exit for Yury Guly just now, at the hands of Saša Stančič, who had a painful decision of his own after his newfound friend sent him into the tank on the big blind. Stančič had three-bet under the gun raiser Guly (17,400) only to find him making yet another raise - this time to 50,000 (with around 80k behind). Stančič asked him, "You sure you want to ruin our friendship?" before standing up in agitation.
"Can we talk?" he asked Guly, who gave him an amiable mini-conversation in Russian before the dealer reminded them that during hands, English only is to be spoken at the table.
"That's all I know in Russian," Stančič deadpanned instantly, before sitting down with his chair backwards, and admitting, "I don't know how to get out of this."
He moved in and was instantly called - Guly showed and Stančič .
Flop:
Turn:
...River: !
He may not have known how to get out of it, but the deck came through with a river two-outer to bust Guly and propel Stančič up over 200,000.
We're not sure of the details but the fact Praz Bansi is sitting on the sidelines suggests he has busted from the Main Event.
The double WSOP bracelet winner, who has $2,408,946 in live tournament winnings, is amazingly yet to cash in a single European Poker Tour event. He thought he had managed to break his duck at the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure but this stop is now part of the NAPT.
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flop and they saw a 
turn for free. Saout tanked up long enough for the dealer to appear as though his soul had left his body, before betting out 11,600. Over to Pagano, who tanked for even longer but eventually gave it up.
flop, and Nitsche tapped the table and looked very uninterested. He soon perked up though when Gutteck put out a bet of 8,100. After asking how many chips he had behind, Nitsche paused for a few moments before check-raising to 33,000.
had outdrawn Keiner's 
on a 
board.
flop. Artjoms raised to 5,300 when it folded to him in the small blind, and Fischer raised to 15,000, immediately adopting 'The Hellmuth' position (totally still, fists over mouth, black sunglasses). Artjoms thought for over two minutes, had the clock called on him, and immediately called.
. He looked relieved.
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