Dermot Blain is no more after he lost a vital coinflip against Jean Sami Souleiman with the money going in preflop.
Souleiman bet 34,000 from early position and when the action folded to Blain, he quickly moved all-in. Just as quickly, Souleiman made the call.
Blain:
Souleiman:
The race was over almost as quickly as it started as the flop came down , the turn saw Blain fall even further behind and he was well completely beaten when the arrived on the turn to give Souleiman a full house!
Jan Bendik now finds himself with 1,754,000 after he won a monster pot from Frenchman Guillaume Darcourt.
It looked like all the chips went in on a flop reading , with Darcourt shoving 352,000 in the end! Darcourt held for a pair of nines with a flush draw to go with it, whilst Bendik held nothing other than !
The turn changed nothing as it was the but the peeled off on the river to award the huge pot to Bendik!
It seems that Salvatore Irace's plan to shove the river backfired when it gave Richard Toth a full house. Toth on the button had bet the flop (46k) and the turn (68k) called each time by small blind Irace. The river brought the and an immediate shove from Irace. Unfortunately for him, Toth held . He had to turn over and take his leave.
Kaspars Renga, to whom we should have awarded Grinder of the Tournament because unlike Chaz Chattha he was a) still in in level 20 and b) never had anything like a stack approaching the average, has finally bitten the dust.
So close to Day 4, he moved in preflop for just 91k over the top of a Denis Kipnis raise (24k) and was immediately called.
Kipnis showed , in big trouble against the of Renga. However a five on the turn cracked the Aces like a hammer on toffee and sent him out of the tournament.
Zoltan Szabo raised from the cutoff and Haykel Cherif Vidal in the small blind went all in. Szabo squinted at him for a few moments and then made the call.
Vidal:
Szabo: well ahead with
Board: bam!
Vidal was delighted as he doubled up to around 550,000. Szabo, who's already had a very trying level in attempting to ignore the drunken ranting of tablemate Josh Prager, looked incredibly depressed as he dropped to 230,000.
Once again Thomas Kremser has been proved right - this whole level came and went and we are not yet done for the day. We've only got two more players to lose, though, so be back in 15 minutes or you'll miss it.
It's ALL OVER! The same hand pitted short-stack shover Salvatore Irace vs. medium-stack re-shover Rasmus Nielsen vs. Marcin Horecki in the blind who covered them both. All in preflop, and on their backs!
Irace:
Nielsen:
Horecki:
Flop:
Turn:
River:
The rest of the room thought they were joking when the members of that table started letting them know: "Stop! It's all over." But it wasn't quite...
Last hand of the night, already down to 24 players, Rob Hollink raised to 35,000 under the gun. To his immediate left Helen Prager went all in - and in the small blind, Ion Pavel re-shoved. Roberto Romanello thought about it for a long time but ultimately folded, holding on to his cards so he could show the table at the end of the hand. Hollink folded too, and they were on their backs.
Pavel:
Prager: well ahead with
Flop: absolutely as entertaining as could be, coming down to make Pavel a set and Prager a straight draw
Turn: completing Prager's straight
River: making Pavel quads! Romanello showed the table , by the by.
Thus we will be returning tomorrow with 23 players, and only one Prager. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to head to the PokerStars party...
, the 
turn saw Blain fall even further behind and he was well completely beaten when the 
arrived on the turn to give Souleiman a full house!
, with Darcourt shoving 352,000 in the end! Darcourt held 
for a pair of nines with a flush draw to go with it, whilst Bendik held nothing other than 
but the 
peeled off on the river to award the huge pot to Bendik!![[user46298]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
turn (68k) called each time by small blind Irace. The river brought the 
and an immediate shove from Irace. Unfortunately for him, Toth held 
. He had to turn over 
and take his leave.
completing Prager's straight
, by the by.