Piotr Majewski is down to half a starting stack after paying off a chunky river bet and finding the button bettor with on a board of . He mucked shaking his head and can't be delighted that the blinds have just gone up to 400/800 when he's now playing 15,400.
Majewski, incidentally, is part of the blogging fraternity, doing so in Polish at tournaments Europwide, and qualified for this one online swapping the pen and paper for the continually riffling stack of chips.
Several members of the press have crossed the line into permanent fixtures at the felt, including journalist and triple crown winner Roland de Wolfe, and Michel Abecassis (who apparently briefly edited Elle magazine). We learn something new every day.
Csaba Solyom is not letting Lex Veldhuis (two to his left) mess up his plans for new-table domination. Although he has the chip leader on there too, he's getting involved in several pots, mainly, it seems, against Veldhuis.
Most recently they saw a heads up flop of (the pot had been raised and presumably threebet in position by Veldhuis). Out fired Solyom for 6,950, which was promptly raised to 17,700 by Veldhuis. It only made it back one more time across the table, as the big stack (surely signifying all in) Solyom pushed over the line was enough to get a near instafold from the Dutch live wire and a mutter of something like, "Just this time."
Solyom up to 125k while Veldhuis loses all his profit of the last half hour.
Barny Boatman continues to motor along quite nicely picking up enough small pots to keep him in the race as this hand proves. There was a raise under-the-gun to 1,300 and it folded around to Boatman who just called from the big blind.
Flop: and both players checked.
Turn: and the player under-the-gun made it 1,100 and Boatman made the call.
We caught up with Anthony Roux betting out a chunky 8,500 from early position on the river of a board. Woefully for him, John O'Shea in the hijack made the call and Roux had to turn his cards over first - - and O'Shea's for two pair was good enough to take the pot.
They're on around 45,000 apiece now, but they're moving in opposite directions.
Konstantin Bücherl has been active all day and the break had not broken his enthusiasm for playing some pots as this hand proves.
Bücherl opened in early position to 1,200 and Bruce Atkinson called from the small blind. The flop was and neither player seemed particularly enthusiastic anymore as they both checked. The turn was a and it brought another round of check to you mate. The river was the and Atkinson threw two red chips into the middle and they were quickly followed by two from Bücherl as he made the call.
Martin Hruby: look at his hat right and there's a 3D dolphin
Martin Hruby, resplendent as pictured in white stripe (large) jumper and white stripe (thin) hat, may be some kind of optical illusion illustration but there's no disguising a huge stack. He's nosed into the early evening chip lead with 142,000 and has been moved to Lex Veldhuis' (65k) table.
Also breaking the magic six figures is Csaba Solyom Nandor, with 102,000 - also on that table!
A tough river saw off another player (the end of the dinner break always seems to set off a flurry of eliminations about now) who was probably Pascal Wirth (unless table 17, seat 4 has seen off multiple competitors). He faced an uncomfortable but tough to avoid bet out on the river which put his tournament at risk.
The board:
With over 40,000 in there already, when Manole Mihai set him all in (just pushing forward a covering 35k) he called all-in with - a set which had been beaten on the river by and had to take his slow leave, doing the Walk of Shame to the tune of the beginning of 'Don't Worry, Be Happy' which is oddly enough the Level Up signifying music for the side event...
For a short while the mood around the main event tables is a little quieter as the players relax with a belly full of food. Our chip leader tried to take advantage of this lull in this interesting hand.
With the blinds at 300/600 with an ante of 50 there was a raise to 1,200 from under-the-gun and our chip leader Ramon Cserei made the three-bet from the small blind with a bet of 4,300. His opponent under-the-gun put his I Pad to one side and decided to make the call.
Flop: and Cserei led out with a bet of 5,050 and his opponent called. The turn was the and Cserie again led out - this time betting 12,000. This was an all-in or fold moment for his opponent who was sat with a stack of 25,000 behind him. His opponent decided that it was all-in and not fold and after a sigh Cserei folded his hand.
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on a board of 
. He mucked shaking his head and can't be delighted that the blinds have just gone up to 400/800 when he's now playing 15,400.
(the pot had been raised and presumably threebet in position by Veldhuis). Out fired Solyom for 6,950, which was promptly raised to 17,700 by Veldhuis. It only made it back one more time across the table, as the big stack (surely signifying all in) Solyom pushed over the line was enough to get a near instafold from the Dutch live wire and a mutter of something like, "Just this time."
and both players checked.
and the player under-the-gun made it 1,100 and Boatman made the call.
and they both checked. Boatman 
board. Woefully for him, John O'Shea in the hijack made the call and Roux had to turn his cards over first - 
and neither player seemed particularly enthusiastic anymore as they both checked. The turn was a 
