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Laurence Houghton opened for 2,000 and faced a reraise to 5,000 from a gent across the table. Houghton announced all in to cover the gent, who swiftly called with a sage nod, and Houghton's stack would be bisected by the end of the hand.
Houghton: 
All-In Gent: 
Board: 
The gent with the kings gave a little fist pump while he took possession of the pot. They're at 35,000 apiece after that, but moving in opposite directions.
Level: 9
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
Oleksandr Vaserfirer is up to 95,000 chips after showing relentless agression from the big blind position.
On a 
flop, Marcel Luske checked in the small blind, Vaserfirer bet 7,000, the player in middle position called and Luske got out of the way.
Turn: 
Vaserfirer now increased his bet size, firing 11,000 chips. After a brief pause, his opponent called.
Some of you may remember Mr Vaserfirer from his third place finish at 2009 EPT Warsaw, he will be hoping to go at least one better here in Barcelona this week.
River: 
Vaserfirer bet 25,500 and realising he was either well beaten or going to have to play for the majority of his stack to find out, his opponent folded.
Team Pokerstars Pro Johnny Lodden is playing excellently today and his stack is growing by the minute.
There was a raise from mid position and Lodden called from the cut off. The flop was 
and the initial raiser made the continuation bet to 3,100 and Lodden raised to 8,450 forcing the fold.
This is how it has been going for Lodden today.
We just caught John Eames walking between the poker room and the casino and his seat has been taken by someone else so we believe he has been eliminated.
Team Pokerstars Pro Liv Boeree just cannot get any momentum going this evening over at table 26.
A player limps under the gun and Boeree makes the raise to 2,100 in early position and Vicent Bosca Ramon makes the four-bet on the button to 5,300 and she surrenders her hand.
A few hands later and there is a raise from middle position to 1,700 and Boeree makes the call in the small blind. The flop is 
, Boeree checks and her opponent bets 2,850 again forcing the fold from the Team Pokerstars Pro.
Boeree ~ 16,400
The gentleman in the hijack had opened for 2,200 when we arrived, and WSOP $2,500 NLH bracelet winner Tomer Berda was reraising to 5,375 from the button, leaving himself 16,000 behind. It folded back to the hijack who called, and they saw a flop.
Flop: 
The hijack checked and Berda promptly went all in. With a flourish, his opponent tossed in the call, but then made a sound like, "Pfffff," when the cards were turned over.
Hijack Gentleman: 
Berda:
The turn and river came down a harmless 
and 
respectively, and Berda doubled up to around 45,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
120,000 | -11,000 |
|
110,000 | 5,000 |
|
100,000 | 20,000 |
|
100,000 | 20,000 |
|
95,000 | 5,000 |
|
77,000 | 47,000 |
|
|
65,000 | 400 |
|
65,000 | |
|
|
63,000 | |
|
60,000 | -15,000 |
|
60,000 | 30,000 |
|
55,000 | |
|
55,000 | -17,750 |
|
50,000 | 10,000 |
|
40,000 | -3,775 |
|
|
32,000 | 16,000 |
|
30,000 | -5,000 |
|
21,000 | -1,000 |
|
16,000 | -13,000 |
|
|
14,000 | -1,000 |
|
12,000 | -5,500 |
Mick Binger has moved up the chip counts after eliminating a player at his table.
The player in early position moved all-in for 8,500 chips, as he had done just two hands earlier against Erik van den Berg in a split pot as both players had ace-king, but this time he had 
Mick Binger, seated on the button, paused for a few moments before throwing in a handful of yellow 5,000 chips, forcing the blinds out of the hand.
Flop: 
Bingo for Binger as he spikes an ace to take the lead
Turn:
River: 
Binger now has 96,150 chips and is very much in contention here
Level: 8
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 75
