Dmitry Gromov just knocked out Toni Ojala, the Russian had 3-bet against Sam Trickett and a short-stacked Ojala called all-in behind them with but ran into Gromov's , Trickett having got out of the way.
The board came a jackless meaning the Finnish player, who had also gone deep at EPT Tallinn, is now out.
Although the stacks are still pretty deep in this tournament - the average right now is 360,000, or 36 big blinds - the chips are very unevenly distributed.
At the moment, there are three players who possess fewer than 10 big blinds and should really get shoving. Among them is Toni Ojala, who we just now witnessed shoving for around 70,000 from the button. Lucky for him, in the big blind was the even shorter-stacked Carolyn Gray, who didn't like her chances and let him take the blinds and antes.
The hapless Frank Calo shoved for his pittance with and William Thorson called on the button because he'd picked up pocket .
Board:
Thorson got up and walked around the table to shake Calo's hand. "You'll get me next time," he told the now-busted young American. Thorson is now on 380,000.
Grzegorz Cichocki raised, and the push from Robert Willis in the big blind was for so little that Cichocki made the call with a somewhat less than premium, but still very live, holding.
Willis:
Cichocki:
Board: ("Yes!" said Willis)
"There's life in the old dog yet," chuckled Willis as he doubled to 140,000.
Young Joaquin Culebras seems to skirt shortish-stacked disaster every now and then, this time getting a chip injection courtesy of Robert Willis. Willis raised under the gun to 23k, and Culebras moved in for 92,000 more. He then had to sit there for a while while Willis deliberated, his deliberations including the odd move of handing 10 5k chips to the dealer and asking him to check if it was 100k. Either way he made the call with and found Culebras with . No upsets and he's back in the game.