William Thorson tried to straddle from UTG (technically he made a blind raise) before Kevin Stani immmediately reraised to 2,100 from UTG+1.
Jeff Sarwer though, pushed all-in from the button for 9,800 and it was passed back around to Stani who quickly folded. Check-mate Sarwer.
Level: 7
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 50
Every time in a tournament these days it seems, there's a Russian who comes from almost nowhere and is among the chip leaders. In Vilamoura, it's Leonid Bilokur who has amassed a huge stack of 140,000 and this was after he just lost several thousand when losing with 
to a short stacked Antonio Lemos 
on a 
board.
He's still the chip leader though.
Mr. Kremser, with these eight-level days and no dinner break you are really spoiling us!
That's right, we are one 15 minute break and two short levels away from calling it a day. Back soon.
The board had been fully dealt and read 
when we arrived. There was a little over 20,000 in the pot. It looked as though Dmitry Stelmak had checked to Christopher de Meulder on the button, who bet 6,000. Back to Stelmak, who went all in.
De Meulder sighed and asked, "How much?" 18,900 more, he was told - around half his remaining stack. He thought about it long, and hard, and then called - but mucked when Stelmak turned over 
for a full house. De Meulder quietly got up and walked away, presumably to go and vomit in the bathroom or some such, while Stelmak stacked up his 56,000 in chips. When de Meulder returns it will be to a stack of less than 20,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
72,000 | |
|
62,000
4,500
|
4,500 |
|
||
|
58,500
8,500
|
8,500 |
|
||
|
46,000
12,000
|
12,000 |
|
||
|
42,000
3,500
|
3,500 |
|
|
||
|
41,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
34,000
24,900
|
24,900 |
|
||
|
32,700
5,800
|
5,800 |
|
30,500
8,800
|
8,800 |
|
29,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
|
||
|
28,500
14,500
|
14,500 |
|
|
||
|
28,200
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
28,000
1,800
|
1,800 |
|
|
||
|
27,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
|
|
||
|
26,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
|
|
||
|
25,500
11,500
|
11,500 |
|
|
||
|
20,000
22,000
|
22,000 |
|
16,000
24,000
|
24,000 |
|
11,500
35,900
|
35,900 |
Other-half-of-the-room chip counts are in the eager greasy paws of Djinn and Homer and being typed up now. All of our biggest stacks - Sorel Mizzi, Stephen Chidwick and Sam Trickett on 110,000 apiece - are on this side of the room.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
110,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
|
|
||
|
110,000
52,000
|
52,000 |
|
110,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
|
61,500
16,500
|
16,500 |
|
|
50,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
|
|
||
|
47,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
|
45,000
18,000
|
18,000 |
|
35,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
|
||
|
35,000
500
|
500 |
|
21,000
8,500
|
8,500 |
|
|
||
|
19,500
12,500
|
12,500 |
|
19,000
16,000
|
16,000 |
|
|
||
|
14,000
4,700
|
4,700 |
Having started off with a few stack hits, every time we've passed Michael Binger he's had slightly fewer chips, until now, getting into the seriously short level with 7,400, he found what probably looked like a good hand for a shove and a call - 
. Unfortunately for him, he was up against 
! He stood up and went through every motion of the about-to-leave-the-building:
1) Stand up
2) Put on jacket as the flop comes 
3) Pick up and close magazine on the 
turn
4) Back away from the table...until the 
appears on the river!
Karolis Grybauskas raised preflop to 1,050 from the cutoff and Ivo Donev reraised to 3,600 on the button.
So far, so standard.
But then Grybauskas 4-bet to 10,000 and Donev moved all-in to cover him. With only around 15,000 behind Grybauskas shrugged and made the call with 
against Donev's 
.
The board though didn't favour the Austrian when it came 
to make Grybauskas a full house. He moved up to 50,000 while Donev drops to just 12,000.
It looked like Filipe Cardoso had only just moved tables to that of EPT Kyiv winner Maxim Lykov, as his plastic chip-transportation rack was right next to his fairly short stack. He'd raised preflop on the cutoff, and button Lykov came along for the ride.
The flop came 
A bet out of 1k was raised to 3,300 by Lykov; Cardoso called. Now both players checked the 
turn. The river didn't look like much but got a bet of 2,100 out of Cardoso, only to find Lykov throwing in 17k - enough to cover his opponent. Immediately he got the call, but his was now a full house, and Cardoso's 
only good for the muck.
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