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We found Matthias de Meulder raising to 1,000 under the gun only for Michael Piper to shove for around 5,000 with an air of depressed resignation, whether real or affected. Either way, it folded back around to de Meulder who decided to give him respect and folded.
EPT Copenhagen winner Anton Wigg was not in his seat, and indeed we found him across the room, chatting to a buddy at the table. Our knowledge of Scandie languages is a little sketchy, but we presume he was retelling the story of his demise. As he did so he managed to knock over several drinks on a side table, leaving a large puddle of Coca Cola on the table. Undeterred, he headed for a different buddy at a different table and continued chatting, leaving the unhappy possessor of the Coke shouting, "Waitress!" into the crowd.
This was an extremely long and frustrating hand. We're just warning you up front. But at least it will only take a few seconds to read. Andrew "Tufat" Teng raised preflop, and Lithuanian online qualifier Kestutis Slankauskas called in the big blind.
Flop: 
- Slankauskas checked to Tufat, who bet 1,525. Then Slankauskas swiftly check-raised to 3,725. Teng stared at the bet, his mouth in a slight frown, his eyes hidden behind his reflective sunglasses.
Tank minute 1
...
Tank minute 2
...
Tank minute 3
Teng decided to flat call, leaving himself 18,000 behind.
Turn: 
- Slankauskas bet 5,100, and Tufat went back into his familiar pose.
Tank minute 1
...
Tank minute 2
...
Michael Piper left to go to the bathroom.
...
Tank minute 3
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Tank minute 4
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Tank minute 5
...
Piper returned from the bathroom, having not missed a hand.
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Tank minute 6
...
Finally, Tufat gave up his hand.
We only caught the very tail end of this truly bizarre hand and reconstructed the action from the multilingual chattering at the end, but the upshot of this craziness is that Perica Bukara, the man in the great suit, is our new chip leader on around 130,000.
We understand that Bukara raised to 1,100 and Jose Obadia called. There was another call as well, before Hanno Liiva made it 10 or 15,000 from the blinds. Bukara went all in, the two callers folded, and Liiva seems to have called all in.
The hands:
Bukara: 
Liiva: 
Board: 
The expression on Liiva's face was just indescribable as he busted out and catapulted Bukara into the chip lead.
Said Obadia to Bukara, after Liiva had left: "My friend, if you don't say all in, I say all in. And I win too, ten jack spades, I make a flush. " [In Obadia's awesome Spanish accent, this was pronounced "ten jeck spides".] "I was sure it was a bluff."
The debate about how the hand played out continued as we backed away from the table.
Alessandro De Michele just got very lucky, all-in for about 10,000 on a 
board against Kenny Hallaert's 
, the 
seemed to reduce De Michele's chances even more but the 
river suddenly surprised everyone and brought groans from the table as the Italian doubled through the Dutchman.
We are now on a 90 minute dinner break. Play will restart at 20.15pm (GMT+2) or maybe a little later if people get stuck in lift again like yesterday.
Level: 7
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 50
These players did not return from dinner (or returned to play the turbo side event at the back of the tournament room), so we can only conclude that they busted in the last few hands before the break:
ElkY Grospellier
Kevin MacPhee
Nikolay Evdakov
Michael Piper
Yesterday we received full official chip counts during the dinner break from our friends at PokerStars but today they never happened, so please enjoy this selection of notable players for the time being.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
140,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
90,000 | |
|
60,000 | |
|
||
|
58,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
45,500
-6,500
|
-6,500 |
|
||
|
43,000
-27,000
|
-27,000 |
|
40,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
37,500
-4,500
|
-4,500 |
|
|
||
|
37,000 | |
|
|
||
|
|
32,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
|
30,000 | |
|
28,500
500
|
500 |
|
27,500
-9,500
|
-9,500 |
|
|
||
|
27,000
-18,000
|
-18,000 |
|
|
||
|
27,000
6,800
|
6,800 |
|
|
21,200
-6,800
|
-6,800 |
|
21,000
-19,000
|
-19,000 |
|
15,000
-9,000
|
-9,000 |
|
|
||
|
9,000
-16,000
|
-16,000 |
|
|
||
|
7,000
-3,000
|
-3,000 |
PokerStars Team Pro: Online member Alfio Battisti raised to 1,600 from middle position. He got one caller in Jens Kyllönen. The flop came 
, and Battisti bet out 2,100. Kyllönen craned his neck to get a look at Battisti's stack before raising to 7,000. Battisti quickly moved all in for a total of 13,250, and Kyllönen shrugged, not happy about it but priced in. He called with 
to see that he was behind Battisti's 
. The turn left Kyllönen drawing to a ten, but the river was the 
instead. Battisti doubled up to 31,000, and Kyllönen dropped to 27,000.
