Marco Adams opened for 11,500 and Jesper Hougaard made it 30,000. Adams tanked for a long time before making it 85,000, but Hougaard quietly counted out his chips and then announced all in for 211,500. Adams wasn't happy about it, but he called anyway.
Adams:
Hougaard:
Board:
Hougaard is off to a lovely start, doubling to 425,000. Adams meanwhile drops to 200,000 or so.
Casper Toft, down to his last, er, 10,000 after a bit of an accident earlier in the day, got it in under the gun. It folded to Allan Baekke in the big blind who giggled, "I think I have to call. I have a very strong hand."
Baekke:
Toft:
Board:
"NO!" shouted the hysterically giggling Toft as he saw the six on the door, and then quickly corrected himself to "YES!" when the two sevens came out behind. He stays in the game - for the moment.
Nadzeya Hundoryna shoved under the gun for her last 50,500 and it folded right around to Jose Besalduch in the big blind who tanked up for a long time, periodically muttering, "F***," under his breath. Eventually tablemate Lex Veldhuis got bored and called time.
As the clock counted down, Besalduch took a coin out of his pocket and tossed it in the air. Then he folded.
As Hundoryna raked in the pot, tablemate Alex Kravchenko unexpectedly (we don't believe we've ever seen him speak at the tables before) piped up. "I think it is fair that before you flip you tell us what is call and what is fold," he said, to merriment around the table. Added Lex Veldhuis, "Don't pretend to be a gambler." Chuckling ensued all round.
From the button Allan Baekke opened the pot with a raise, and he would flat-call a three-bet from small blind Casper Toft. The two men went heads up to an action flop: . Toft fired out 40,000 at the pot, but Baekke wanted to play for more. He made the minimum raise to 80,000, only to see Toft come right over the top with another raise to 200,000 straight. Baekke eventually announced an all in, and Toft quickly called to put more than a half-million chips in the middle of the table. Cards on their backs, please:
Baekke:
Toft:
It was quite the cooler for Toft, unable to get away from top two pair on that flop. He was drawing dead to four outs, and the turn and river blanked off with the and respectively. When the chips were counted down, Toft was left with just about 15,000 in chump change to work with.
It's awfully poor timing as the bubble is drawing imperatively close.
In early position, Johannes Strassmann raised to 12,500. Fedor Los popped it to 31,500 on the button and action folded back to Strassmann. He spent a good three minutes in the tank, ultimately four-betting to 82,000.
Los was quick to make the call and the flop came down . Strassman checked and Los calmly bet 65,500, forcing a quick fold from Strassman.
Those were the immortal words of our editor-in-chief Matt Parvis. Arnaud Mattern, Mark Vos, Thomas Bichon and the PokerNews team hit the slopes yesterday to fight it out for a very small bottle of very vicious rum. Enjoy.
Good morning/afternoon and welcome back to the now absurdly sunny town of Saalbach-Hinterglemm, where 86 runners remain in the inaugural EPT Snowfest Main Event. As you may recall, this event only pays 80 places, meaning that certain short-stacked individuals will have had a somewhat uncomfortable night above and beyond the Hinteglemm hotels' tendency to superheat their establishments.
Some folks will have had rather better evenings though. It must be nice to go to bed on Day 2 knowing that you're the monster chip leader, and presumably chip daddy Johannes Strassmann, heads and shoulders above the rest on 747,000, will have slept soundly and dreamt of a large payday. Anything can happen though, and among the other folks who'll be vying for the top spot today are Richard Toth, Maxim Lykov and Jim "Mr_BigQueso" Collopy.
Cards should be in the air in around half an hour, so don't go anywyhere...