Renato Paolini has doubled up through Alex Kravchenko to around 20,000. Paolini's timely pick up of coincided with the Russian getting and the board helped neither.
All right, ShoutBoxers, it's your turn! We just watched a big pot play out on Table 33, and we're going to let you try your hand at blogging. We'll post the hand history here and on our Facebook page. You can log on and reply to the post with a hand write-up, and we'll post the best one on here in about an hour. It's the first time we've tried this, so let's see how many PokerNews bloggers-in-training we have out there.
Here's the hand:
Giuseppe Liberto: POST small blind 300
Riccardo Mazzitelli: POST big blind 600
Table ANTE 50
Thomas Eaves: FOLD
Michael Tureniec: RAISE to 2225
Melanie Weisner: CALL
Bardetsky Stanislav: FOLD
Moritz Kranich: RAISE to 14175 (ALL IN)
Marin Truvnev: FOLD
Enrico Delfino: RAISE to 14725 (ALL IN)
Serge Madec: FOLD
Giuseppe Liberto: FOLD
Riccardo Mazzitelli: FOLD
Micheal Tureniec: FOLD
Table talk (Weisner): "How much does he have? I'm going to need a full count."
Weisner: TANK
Table talk (Weisner): "This is going to be the worst call ever."
Weisner: CALL
SHOWDOWN:
Weisner:
Kranich:
Delfino:
Table talk (Weisner): "Oh my god, please hold one time!"
BOARD:
Table talk (Mazzitelli): "I folded ace-queen too."
Table talk (Weisner): "You guys had two combined outs. Unreal."
By the time we strolled by, the board read and Didier Jean Dussol was betting out 10,000 in the cutoff. To his immediate left on the button, Simon Charette made it 25,000. Back to Dussol who shoved, and then back once more to Charette who rather dramatically announced, "I call."
Dussol:
Charette:
"It's not over yet," said Charette, but a moment later it was.
In early position, Jude Ainsworth opened with a raise to 1,600. In the next seat over, Claudio Rinaldi three-bet him up to 4,950. The table folded back around to Ainsworth, and he sat in the tank for a minute. He eventually mumbled something to Rinaldi, though we couldn't make out the conversation above the sound of 600 stacks of chips ruffling. Whatever it was, Ainsworth smiled broadly, and even the stoney-faced Rinaldi cracked a bit of a smirk.
Ainsworth promptly returned his cards to the muck, forfeiting his raise and leaving himself about 46,000 for the next hand.
Wow, some curiousness as Paul Pires-Trigo raised in mid-position and Max Lykov reraised out of the big blind. Pires-Trigo re-popped, and Lykov now five-bet to a total of 27,000. Pires-Trigo gave it some brief thought, and then pushed to cover Lykov. Lykov looked dejected for a few moments, and then folded.
Having invested a very sizable chunk of his stack in this failed endeavour, Lykov was left with 37,000.
Former giganto-stack Martin Kabrhel has taken a bit of a hit, doubling up table shortie Joao Candeias to 26,000. Candeias held pocket jacks, Kabrhel pocket fours, and no-one hit a thing on the board.
In fact Kabrhel seems to have taken a few hits lately - from a high of 100,000 around an hour ago, Kabrhel has sunk to 60,000.
Group A, the dinnering group, has returned to the tournament room to play their Level 7. Group B has already played their Level 7, and they're being rewarded with their own dinner break for their good behavior.
We arrived to see a flop reading and a bet of 6,000 lay on the felt in front of Giuseppe Pica on the button. It was unclear whether Jesper Hougaard in mid-position had bet out first and Pica's bet was actually a raise, but either way, Hougaard now moved in for around 15,000. Pica folded, and Hougaard moved up to 26,000, flashing the as he raked in the pot.
We saw Tournament Director Thomas Kremser talking into his walkie-talkie for a long while, and he looked completely consumed by the conversation at hand. We took a pass by him to see if we could eavesdrop on the nature of the discussion.
We're almost to him, listen up. Try not to look like you're obviously spying on his conversation:
"........Yes, definitely. Which restaurant?......"
We kept right on walking, content in the knowledge that everyone is similarly anxious to get out of here for a San Remo pasta dinner.