Matt Affleck is down to 67,000 chips after coming off worse from a confrontation with Italy's Riccardo Giacalone.
Giacalone raised from middle position to 3,200 and found two callers in the shape of Opria Cristea in the cutoff and Affleck in the small blind. The three players checked around the flop but Affleck came out betting to the tune of 8,200 when the arrived on the turn.
However, both Affleck and Cristea quickly folded when Giacalone raised to 25,000.
Somehow Peter Roche escaped potentially deadly pocket kings (vs. aces and, er, 3-4 suited) losing under 20k and remaining on over 60,000 total. It happened because of a sneaky flat call from some preflop (Roche the raiser) which brought Guillaume Darcourt into the hand too.
The flop: - with two diamonds. Roche bet 10,000, and was soon raised by Darcourt with having flopped the nuts. Mr. Aces (now busto) continued on all in, but Roche folded, leaving the strange result of the flop to be seen by the table.
Francisco Torres, starting the day perilously short-stacked (under 15,000) has been on the increase and is cheerfully getting his stack over the line in an attempt to double it.
His most recent shove (chips on top of small Thomas the Tank Engine figurine) came over the top of Melanie Weisner, who'd made it 2,700 to go preflop, called by Mihail Kirilov. Weisner immediately laid her hand down, but Kirilov thought about it for around half a minute before giving Torres the benefit of the doubt and folding too.
Torres dramatically flipped up his and displayed them as if pinned to his shirt before happily raking in the pot.
Drasutis Tauras Narmontas has passed the 200,000 chip mark after a three-way all in confrontation involving Team PokerStars Pro Theo Jorgensen and Mikko Turtiainen.
Constantin Raducan started the betting with a raise to 3,200 from early position but he soon folded when he saw Narmontas raise to 7,500 from the cutoff, Turtiainen move all in for a total of 16,100 and Jorgensen call off his last 14,900! Narmontas made the call and the cards were revealed.
Narmontas:
Jorgensen:
Turtiainen:
The final board ran out , busting Turtiainen and splitting the rest of the pot between Jorgensen and Narmontas.
A full double through for Jan Bendik courtesy of a life-saving turn card brings him over 65,000. Preflop two players, Bendik and Mihail Kirilov, raised out a third interested party and saw the flop between them. Kirilov checked, Bendik shoved (25k) and Kirilov instacalled with . Bendik's were in trouble until the turn saved his bacon and dropped Kirilov to just 34,000.
Jesus Cortes Lizano faced down a Matt Affleck river bet (6,000) on a board of . He'd checked and then made the call with . Affleck could only table and Lizano got the pot and a table tap.
Both Dominic Linder and Johan Berg are down from their starting stacks today, even though the former has just doubled through the latter. Preflop raiser Berg faced an immediate shove from Linder, and he made one of those peculiar insta-shrug-calls, knowing deep down his was probably in trouble. It was - Linder had which stayed ahead on a board of and gave him a new stack of 57,000 while Berg drops to 61,000.
flop but Affleck came out betting to the tune of 8,200 when the 
arrived on the turn.![[user46298]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
- with two diamonds. Roche bet 10,000, and was soon raised by Darcourt with 
having flopped the nuts. Mr. Aces (now busto) continued on all in, but Roche folded, leaving the strange result of the flop to be seen by the table.
and displayed them as if pinned to his shirt before happily raking in the pot.
, busting Turtiainen and splitting the rest of the pot between Jorgensen and Narmontas.
flop between them. Kirilov checked, Bendik shoved (25k) and Kirilov instacalled with 
were in trouble until the 
turn saved his bacon and dropped Kirilov to just 34,000.
. Affleck could only table 
and Lizano got the pot and a table tap.
was probably in trouble. It was - Linder had 
and gave him a new stack of 57,000 while Berg drops to 61,000.