Claudio Rinaldi has doubled up after successfully flipping his against Antonio Pezzi’s in a battle of the short stacks. Rinaldi was the stack at risk but won out on a 10h} board. Pezzi was left with shrapnel afterwards and will need to make a Lazarus style comeback to get back into this tournament.
Erik Tamm raised from the hijack and then shoved to a reraise from Kadir Karabulut in the small blind. Karabulut decided he'd priced himself in and made the call.
Matteo Andrea Grimaldi got his money in with on a nine-high flop of . He had to like his overpair considering his relatively short stack, but he couldn't have liked running into Nicholas Sforos' very much at all. The on the turn changed nothing, and the that filled out the board was the last card of Grimaldi's day; he's out.
Alfio Battisti has left this tournament perhaps cursing his timing, he raised to 36,000 from the cutoff and Michel Abecassis called on the button. The flop was and Battisti fired out 41,000, Abecassis quickly made it 91,000 and Battisti moved in with Abecassis calling even faster than that.
Battisti showed but was drawing almost dead against the Frenchman’s , the turn spelt the end for the Italian pro while Abecassis housed up on the river.
Jens Thorson, the younger brother of Pokerstars Team Pro William Thorson, is up to 1.7 million in chips. The Swede just knocked out Thomas Meyer Swensen blind on blind when the latter’s was no good against the belonging to Thorson after a board.
Luigi Alessandro was starting to get short on chips when he made his stand with in a preflop all in. Unfortunately for him, Giuseppe Pantaleo woke up with the dominating , and the news would not improve from there. The dealer ran out a board full of blanks: . That's no help to Alessandro, and he is the latest victim of Day 4.
Thang Duc Nguyen opened to 42,000 from early position, and a player across the table flat-called before Antonio Buonanno squeezed all in for 242,000 out of the blinds. When it came back to Nguyen, he re-shoved over the top. The monkey in the middle tank-folded, and Buonanno was at risk for his tournament life.
Showdown
Nguyen:
Buonanno:
Board:
Well, that's just not very climactic, now is it? Chop it up, and let's play the next hand.
Claus Uhrskov must have been delighted to get it in with pocket aces against Tobias Huber's , but not so happy when the board came down to make Huber a straight. Uhrskov duly exited, and presumably can now be found throwing up in the little boys' room...