Steve 'gboro780' Gross thought for a little while on the turn of a board while facing a 22,000 bet from Maurizio Baravalle. Gross folded face up and Baravalle reciprocated, flashing to his American opponent.
Liz Lieu raised preflop to 8,000 and Fabio Salvatore Di Stefano reraised all-in for 21,200 in total. An automatic call when it came back to Lieu as she tabled to his for a bit of 57/43 action. The board came and Di Stefano doubled up to about 50,000, still rather short. Lieu takes a knock but she still has about 80,000 or so.
No Blain, no gain
We caught up with Dermot Blain on the turn of the board, just in time to witness him check-calling a bet from Mauro Cracolici. They saw a river and again Blain checked; Cracolici bet again, this time to the tune of 26,000 and leaving himself just 50,000 behind.
Blain tanked up for an age before eventually folding. "I had an ace," he told Cracolici as the pot headed the Italian's way. No feeling sorry for Blain, though - he's still on a very hefty 380,000 after that.
Being a true gentleman, Mr. Govert Metaal, who recently and spectacularly doubled through Peter Hedlund, bought the Swede a €200 bottle of wine to make up for it.
Hedlund was not interested in the sandwiches that casino staff brought him by way of apology for their slowness in delivering his booze and instead he distributed them among players at the surrounding tables, all presumably hungry owing to the absence of a dinner break today.
Harrison Kaczka just doubled through Giuseppe Pantaleo after a 40/60 went his way. Kaczka's was behind to but not after a board. Kaczka is up to about 90,000.
Michel "The Abacus" Abecassis raised to 7,000 and big blind ElkY, who seems to have lost most of his chips to Allan Bække somewhere along the line, glumly called.
ElkY check-called 10,200 on the flop and then another 16,000 on the turn. He checked again on the river and this time Abecassis checked behind, turning over . ElkY flipped which was good enough to take it, and looked rather more cheerful as he raked in the pot.
Current standings - ElkY 110,000, Abecassis 39,500.
Paul Valkenburg shoved under the gun for a rather sad-looking 40,000 and was met with a reshove from Patrick Carron in the cutoff. The button thought about it long enough to have the clock called but eventually folded. "Ace king?" enquired Valkenburg, but it wasn't. On their backs.