Alexander Dovzhenko made an opening raise which Jose Maria de Noronha flat-called. On the button, Dario Minieri reraised. Dovzhenko folded and de Noronha flat-called again.
They saw a flop which de Noronha checked. Minieri pushed an apparently random collection of chips across the line, which on close inspection turned out to be 4,950 in value. We had time to conduct this inspection because de Noronha spent some time sitting back in his chair, wondering what to do. Eventually he folded.
"Why didn't you reraise me?" Minieri asked him in his frankly fantastic heavy Italian cadences.
"Next time I reraise all in," promised de Noronha. They both laughed. Minieri was not done with his lesson in how to play cards, though.
"You raise and I reraise and you call," ("You RISE an I RERISE an you COLL,") "You raise and I reraise and you call again. Three-bet!"
Yury Kerzhapkin just flopped a double up courtesy of his big blind with which he'd presumably called the early-position preflop raise of Martin Wendt. The board fit him like a glove - - and his straight move all in for just under 15k on the flop was called by Wendt who tabled and then made a noise like a kettle hissing as he saw the turn and river brick and most of his stack go to his right. Not best pleased, and now with just 8k, two hands later Wendt got a few chips back when Kerzhapkin raised to 1,025 on the button but passed when the big blind Dane moved in.
Back out we go on to the balcony with our cameras and our sunglasses and whatnot. When we return we will be playing just two more levels before calling it a day.
Allan Bække may not have the largest stack in the room but he's still wielding it aggressively - especially against those even shorter than he is... Just now he raised to 1,500 under the gun, and found Alexander Kovzhenko upping it to 4,200 in mid position. It passed back round to Bække who asked his opponent how much more he had, before throwing in around 20k total which covered him. Facing this four-bet, Kovshenko thought for a while then gave up on the hand.
Nursing a short stack for most of the last level - in fact not really having appeared to progress upwards chipwise today - Barny Boatman has been eliminated, his final race being one of two hands: or , which were being swept into the muck as his neighbour became the beneficiary of the rest of his chips. Walking slowly away, he simply remarked, "I'm gone," to a friend at a nearby table before making his way out into, probably, the lovely early evening sunshine.
Ludovic Lacay is down to under 20k it looks like now, after paying off a Henrique Pinho river value bet. 8,500 was the amount, which Pinho bet out on the river of a ...... board. Lacay thought for a long while before counting out the call, looking at it and his stack and then finally making it, but mucking when he saw the in his opponent's hand.