Carlos Mortensen opened preflop to 800 and Danny Neess made the call from the blinds to see a flop. Neess check-called a bet of 1,500 before check-raising Mortensen's turn bet of 2,800 to 8,150 but the Spaniard clicked it back, making it 13,500. Neess called this 3-bet and then fired 13,000 more when the river came.
Mortensen now tanked for a full five minutes to the point of the clock being called, but he folded albeit with great reluctance. "El Matador" still has 25,000 but Neess must have upwards of about 80,000 now.
Also hitting the rail well before the sun goes down is Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier. He and his aviators were spotted heading for the Great Outdoors, while William Thorson simultaneously was found stacking up around 55,000 in chips.
The winner of the Nordic Promo Vegard Nygaard (finalists in this promotion won a trip to Monte Carlo, and Nygaard picked up a Pokerstars Passport to certain events this year) is building his stack apace - already up to 61k. A good chunk came courtesy of the lady on his left - he'd grown a pot of around 8k with her out of position, getting to the turn with the board . Nygaard checked at this point, she bet 12k (just under half her remaining chips) and Nygaard calmly pushed in enough chips to cover her whole stack. Deep into the Consideration Timebank, and she really didn't look like folding was fun when she finally did it. He showed her for the flopped set which appeared to provide some soothing, but she'd shortish now on 14k, while he's up amongst the Level 4 chip leaders.
We didn't witness the hand, but we understand that Team PokerStars Pro Thomas Bichon is busto. It sounded as though he called a big river bluff which turned out not to be a bluff, and is now at liberty to spend the rest of the day by the pool. Which, by all accounts, is a sight that's pretty easy on the eye. So ladies, you know where you need to be this afternoon.
Only the second nuts for Pokerstars Team Pro Daniel Negreanu, as he flopped a good one for his - - and turned a better - . He did call a flop bet, it appears, but the major part of the stack (19,400, to be precise) crossed the line on the turn when his flush had rolled in. His opponent could only muster top pair dodgy kicker with and now the oft-massaged Pro is back in the game with a very playable stack.
We arrived at the table to find the board reading and Luca Pagano going all in from the button for 10,500 or roughly twice the pot. David Frieling (under the gun) looked rather irked by this, and sat for a long time just scratching his head and thinking about it. Eventually he pushed the call across the line, but mucked when Pagano turned over for the rivered straight.
If you recall yesterday Arnaud Mattern was rather short rather early - before in the course of two massive hands finding himself among the chip leaders and staying that way for the rest of the day. Pagano right now seems to be heading the same way - although he's still a little below his starting stack after that, he is not afraid to get his chips in and we would not be in the least bit surprised if he ends up making his seventh EPT final table this week.
A 3-bet pot somehow went four ways as all players checked the flop before small blind Samer Abdul-Rahman fired 2,900 but only Viktor Blom made the call.
"Which draw do you have, hearts, spades, a double gutshot?" asked Abdul-Rahman but garnered no reply.
The paired the river and Abdul-Rahman threw out a 5,000 yellow chip with a level of disdain usually only reserved for traffic wardens. Blom sighed and quicly called but shook his head with disgust on seeing his opponent's . Blom has about 20,000 remaining.
Denmark's Danny Neess has grown his stack to over 65k in the early levels, and is putting tablemates like Luca Pagano and Dara O'Kearney to the test. These shorter stacks might be covered by the table chip leader, but they're not in the danger zone and even with the blinds going up to 150/300 they've got plenty of time and space to play.
A recent example: Pagano limped the button, then called when Neess made it 1k to go out of the big blind. He also called Neess' bet out of 825 on the flop, and then took the opportunity presented on the turn when Neess checked to bet 1,700 and take it down.
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flop. Neess check-called a bet of 1,500 before check-raising Mortensen's turn bet of 2,800 to 8,150 but the Spaniard clicked it back, making it 13,500. Neess called this 3-bet and then fired 13,000 more when the 
river came.
for the flopped set which appeared to provide some soothing, but she'd shortish now on 14k, while he's up amongst the Level 4 chip leaders.
- and turned a better - 
. He did call a flop bet, it appears, but the major part of the stack (19,400, to be precise) crossed the line on the turn when his flush had rolled in. His opponent could only muster top pair dodgy kicker with 
and now the oft-massaged Pro is back in the game with a very playable stack.
and Luca Pagano going all in from the button for 10,500 or roughly twice the pot. David Frieling (under the gun) looked rather irked by this, and sat for a long time just scratching his head and thinking about it. Eventually he pushed the call across the line, but mucked when Pagano turned over 
flop, and then took the opportunity presented on the turn when Neess checked to bet 1,700 and take it down.