The board was reading 
and Jukka Ylitalo fired out 1,200 on the river from the big blind. Vanessa Selbst responded with a raise to 6,200 which, after a dwell, the Finn called.
"You have the flush?" asked Selbst, slightly concerned as she turned over 
but Ylitalo flipped over 
.
"No-one ever folds the straight," she continued glumly. Selbst is on 42,000
Arnaud Mattern is heading back in the right direction after picking up a decent-sized pot.
The board was reading 
with Igor Ivashkiv firing out 1,000 from the big blind. Attilo Donato made the call before Mattern raised to 3,200 on the button.
Ivashkiv thought for a minute before folding while Donato quickly folded behind. Although he was scooping up the pot, Mattern was more interested in finding someone who was qualified to give him an injection during the break due to his injured leg. So, errr...If you're in the Swissotel at the break and able to do this then come up to the cardroom.
Luca Pagano raised to 850 from early position, and on the button, Erik van Dijk min-raised him to 1,400. Pagano called, and they went heads up to a 
flop. Pagano checked, and van Dijk bet 2,500. Luca just called, then checked again when the turn paired the board with the 
. Van Dijk checked behind. Pagano tried the check a third time after the 
river, but van Dijk didn't fall for the trick. He checked as well, tabling for tens full of nines. Pagano grumbled, flipping over for quads. He couldn't have been pleased with the size of the pot, but winning it put him up to 54,000.
With 5,000 in the pot by the 
flop, Mihai Manole checked to Cristiano Blanco, who bet 4,050. The action returned to Manole, who coolly raised to 32,000 - almost his whole stack, with just about 1,500 in small denomination chips behind, presumably so that he could continue riffling chips while Blanco squirmed. After a minute or two of said squirming, Blanco pursed his lips and folded his hand. He dropped to 33,000.
A few minutes later, though, we strolled by the table and found Blanco getting back all those chips and more.
We only caught the very tail end of the hand, but the board read 
X and Christopher Jensen was turning over pocket kings. This was unfortunate for him, as Blanco turned over pocket queens for a full house.
"You've run very good twice," tablemate Jasper Wetemans told Blanco, presumably referring to a hand we didn't see rather than the unfortunate incident with Mihai Manole. Whatever happened there, Blanco is now sitting on a very comfortable 48,000.
Tobias Wagner raised to 800 from middle position, and in the big blind, Antonio Buonanno shrugged and tossed in a call. The flop fell 
, and Buonanno checked. Wagner bet 1,000, and his Italian opponent check-raised to 3,000. Wagner wasn't going to give in so easily. He three-bet to 7,250. Buonanno was done with the playing around. He quickly bet 30,000, enough to cover Wagner. The German gave up his hand with a sigh.
Annette Obrestad is playing at the moment as thought she is a kleptomaniac with a particular fetish for anything made of clay. She's in a lot of pots and along with Jeff Sarwer next to her, making a lot of action that will most likely play to her advantage.
Obrestad opened one hand UTG and was called by Gianpiero Speranza in late position and Eddie Tasbas in the big blind. It was checked to Obrestad on the 
flop and she bet 800, Speranza folding but Tasbas made the call to see a turn. Obrestad fired again after a check to the tune of 2,250 and it was enough this time to make the Swede fold.
When the under-the-gun player raised to 525, he didn't expect to get six callers, but that's exactly what happened. Carter Phillips, one of the seven players headed to the flop, shook his head and laughed at how much respect the raise got. The flop came 
, and somehow all seven players decided to check. The free turn was the 
, and Alexander Nudin, first to act in the small blind, bet 2,200. It folded to Jorn Walthaus in the hijack, who flat-called.
Last to act, Steven van Zadelhoff raised it up to 6,500. Nudin folded, but Walthaus called to see the river complete a flush draw. After the scare card, he quickly moved all in for around 12,000. When van Zadelhoff called, Walthaus got up to leave before flipping up for eight-high and a missed gutshot. Van Zadelhoff tabled 
for a flush, busting Walthaus and building to 65,000.
This is Vanessa Selbst' EPT debut as a Team PokerStars Pro and so far she's performing solidly. After a long dwell on a 
board, she raised Gijs Roeven's 1,200 bet to 4,300 getting a grudging fold in return.
The tables are really packed tight in the tournament area to the point where it's almost impossible for Thomas Kremser and Alan to get around, not to mention the media outlets such as ourselves.
To this point, the TD's have stopped breaking tables from one end of the room and have started breaking from the middle to allow a bit more space for everyone to maneuver. Luca Pagano's table was broken just now, hopefully after a couple more have gone there will be enough space for everyoone to breath.
The phrase has become somewhat overused in poker media circles, but seem to have ourselves a genuine, bona fide Table Of Doom over in the tournament area right now. The Doomsters there include:
Seat 1) Daniel Drescher
Seat 3) Johan van Til
Seat 4) Alex Kravchenko
Seat 7) Sorel Mizzi
Seat 8) Ivan Demidov
Seat 9) Dan Murariu
Just now we caught up with Doomsters Mizzi and Drescher on the turn of a 
board, 2,700 in the pot. Mizzi checked, Drescher bet 1,800, and Mizzi silently called.
Both players checked the 
river and Drescher turned over 
for an interesting flush draw in the turn that ended up just being king-high. Mizzi turned over 
for a flush draw on the flop which turned into a modest two pair on the river, and bumped his stack back up to 28,000 or so. Drescher grinned and dipped to 25,000.
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