Annette Obrestad seemed to have raised in early position and picked up calls from Mauro Palazzo on the button and Adam Radocz in the big blind. Either way, the three of them were looking down at a flop when we arrived at the table.
Radocz checked, and Obrestad bet 2,500. Over to Palazzo, who raised to 8,000. Radocz got out of their way and Obrestad thought about it very briefly before reraising a large number of yellow T5,000 chips, enough to cover Palazzo. He promptly called all in.
Palazzo: for top pair
Obrestad: an interesting for two pair
Turn: ding!
River:
The miracle turn doubled Palazzo, and Obrestad laughed as she paid up. They're on around 50,000 apiece now, but they are moving in opposite directions.
Praz Bansi opened preflop to 1,500 and received one caller, Seppo Parkkinen on the button.
Bansi fired out 2,000 on the and the Finn called, the turn was a blank and again Bansi fired to the tune of 3,600 which Parkkinen called once more, though the dwelling length proportionally increased with the size of the pot.
The river was the making the straight, Bansi went to bet around 5,000 but then stopped, rechecking the board and then coldly staring at his opponent. Bansi then recounted the remains of his stack which amounted to roughly 15,000 before betting 6,500 or as the online kids describe it, 'unloading a full clip' of betting all three streets.
Parkkinen, looking mildly displeased, took a couple of minutes and riffled some chips, but finally after four bets, gave his opponent credit for something he could not beat and folded.
Mihai Manole opened to 1,500 on the button, and Scott Montgomery defended his big blind. The flop came out , and both players checked. Montgomery checked again when the turn fell the , and Manole bet 1,600. Scott quickly raised it to 4,500. Manole considered for a minute before mucking.
Sadly, there are very few Estonians actually playing today. Imre Leibold from our Estonian sister site pokernews.ee told us there were actually three playing today but as many as fifteen in tomorrow.
One of those playing today is Alexsandr Kuperman, was just involved in a hand against Heinz Kamutzki. On a board Kuperman had attempted to raise a 1,600 flop bet of Kamutzki by throwing out a 5,000 yellow chip but the dealer had either not heard him declare the raise or thought she heard him say call. Thomas Kremser came by to declare that it had counted as a call and play continued on to the turn.
Kamutzki now checked and Kuperman fired 4,600 eliciting a fairly speedy fold from his opponent. Kuperman is on about 36,000.
The flop read when Vanessa Selbst bet out in mid position, only to face a raise from former NBA star Martin Muursepp. Selbst thought about it for some time, staring hard at the felt, before reraising to cover him. Muursepp called all in in a flash, and they were on their backs.
Selbst: for top pair
Muursepp: for a set
Turn:
River: making Muursepp some academic but nevertheless pretty quads.
"A few more chips, I could have folded," lamented Selbst with a bit of a scowl. Nevertheless the newly signed Team PokerStars Pro is in no particular trouble - she is on a roughly average 40,000 after that. Muursepp doubled to around 50,000.
We arrived just in time to see the short-stacked Walid Bou-Habib get his last in with which failed to hit a thing against Jeff Sarwer's on the board while Sarwer's hand improved to a straight. Bou-Habib took his leave, while the Canadian chess prodigy moved up to 50,000.
Steven van Zadelhoff is the new chip leader after winning the biggest pot of the day with ace-high. The massive donation came from big-stack Thomas Mühlöcker. After a preflop raise and a call, Mühlöcker three-bet. Van Zadelhoff four-bet, and Mühlöcker tried to intimidate Steven with a five-bet shove. But the move didn't work, and van Zadelhoff called all in with . Mühlöcker could only turn up .
The board ran out , and van Zadelhoff's big slick held up. When he counted out his full stack, it was worth 61,925. More than doubling that to 127,000 puts him in the lead, leaving an unhappy Mühlöcker with around 45,000.
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flop when we arrived at the table.
for top pair
for two pair
and the Finn called, the turn was a blank 
making the straight, Bansi went to bet around 5,000 but then stopped, rechecking the board and then coldly staring at his opponent. Bansi then recounted the remains of his stack which amounted to roughly 15,000 before betting 6,500 or as the online kids describe it, 'unloading a full clip' of betting all three streets.
, and Manole bet 1,600. Scott quickly raised it to 4,500. Manole considered for a minute before mucking.
board Kuperman had attempted to raise a 1,600 flop bet of Kamutzki by throwing out a 5,000 yellow chip but the dealer had either not heard him declare the raise or thought she heard him say call. Thomas Kremser came by to declare that it had counted as a call and play continued on to the 
turn.
when Vanessa Selbst bet out in mid position, only to face a raise from former NBA star Martin Muursepp. Selbst thought about it for some time, staring hard at the felt, before reraising to cover him. Muursepp called all in in a flash, and they were on their backs.
for top pair
for a set
making Muursepp some academic but nevertheless pretty quads.
on the 
.
, and van Zadelhoff's big slick held up. When he counted out his full stack, it was worth 61,925. More than doubling that to 127,000 puts him in the lead, leaving an unhappy Mühlöcker with around 45,000.