Perhaps because of his brush with the felt just now, emotions were running high in Emilliano Bono, who moved his final 36k all in preflop only to find the button calling and the small blind Nicolas Babel re-raising a further 116k.
This got rid of the first caller, leaving an ecstatic Bono to thank Babel profusely: "Nice RAISE! Thank you for the raise!"
Bono:
Babel:
Flop: "Go Go Go," Bono warmed up...
Turn: "Go ROMA!" he found his stride. "Double! Triple! ROMA!"
Despite the flush draw, Babel missed the river and Bono, with a handkerchief on his head, finished off with, "Napolina! Thank you for the re-raise!" and sat back down with 110k+.
Ludovic Marguerat raised, and excitable and still short-stacked Italian Emiliano Bono shoved from the big blind. Marguerat called, and the shouting commenced once more.
Marguerat:
Bono:
Bono: "Aiii papa! [Italian Italian Italian] the flop!!!"
Board: (Bono: "SET!!!")
"Roma! Roma! I want your chips," (he pronounced it, "sheep,") "You call, ok."
Bono is at 230,000 now. Marguerat is at 185,000 and doesn't look happy at all.
A little bit of drama over on Table 3 where the floor was called to deal with a situation caused by Emilliano Bono.
Nikolay Losev had raised to 23,000 from under the gun and when the action folded back to Bono in the small blind there was some confusion as to whether he had announced his intention to raise or not. He said not but Melanie Weisner said that he definitely said the word raise regardless of how he said it.
The floor told Bono that if it was his turn to act and he said the word raise then he had to raise, so he did just that and made it 50,000 to play, but he was not very happy about it. The big blind folded and Losev made the call.
Flop: - Both players checked
Turn: - "BET!" Bono almost shouted sarcastically, before adding "I am strong! You fold!"
Losev did just that and as he did, Bono turned over . Maybe he will calm down during the break
TD Thomas Kremser reckons we'll hit 24 players at the start of Level 22, but the general consensus among the dealers is that we'll get there towards the end of Level 21. The PokerStars Christmas party is due to start at 9pm, so there is a lot at stake.
Kevin MacPhee has eliminated both Kevin Stani and Paul Knebel in the first hand back after the break. This pot rocketed sky-high straight away with an under the gun shove from Stani (c.280k) and a reshove from Knebel (more). It folded to MacPhee, who also announced, "All in," covering them both like a blanket.
MacPhee:
Knebel:
Stani:
Flop:
Turn:
River: !
A 700k+ pot goes to MacPhee who is now an even more monstrous chip leader with over 2,200,000.
We got there on the river of the board, just in time to see Melanie Weisner check-calling 57,000 from Emiliano Bono. But we never got to see what Weisner had, as Bono shouted, "YES! YES YES YES!" and turned over for a flopped flush and Weisner mucked.
Weisner seemed somewhat wearied by the experience, and dropped to 430,000. Bono is now at 500,000 - not bad seeing as he was at just 30,000 or so about an hour ago. Extraordinary.
Kiril Zahariev is skirting disaster after losing a chunk of his moderate stack to Jan Bendik preflop. Zahariev had three bet to 61,000 in late position, but when Bendik four-bet out of the small blind (116k total), Zahariev folded leaving himself just 190,000.
Two hands later and he was the one moving all in on an flop, picking up about what he'd lost to Bendik.
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"Go Go Go," Bono warmed up...
"Go ROMA!" he found his stride. "Double! Triple! ROMA!"
river and Bono, with a handkerchief on his head, finished off with, "Napolina! Thank you for the re-raise!" and sat back down with 110k+.
(Bono: "SET!!!") 
- Mirroring the flop, both players checked the turn.
- Hollink bet 40,000 and was quickly called by Kipnis, who's ace-king was ever so slightly better than the Dutchman's ace-queen.
- Both players checked
. Maybe he will calm down during the break
!
for a flopped flush and Weisner mucked.
flop, picking up about what he'd lost to Bendik.