At the same time as Eiler was in the process of knocking out Balazs Botond, there was another all-in move on the secondary table. Andreas Wiese moved in for 337k over the top of Matthias Lotze's preflop button raise to 70k. While the TV table watched the exciting conclusion to Botond's tournament and then started to drift off for dinner, Lotze dwelled over the decision before finally releasing his hand and joining the parade.
The feature table has been dying to find out what kind of range Michael Eiler has been shoving with all day long. They just found out but I suspect the unlucky Balazs Botond would rather he didn't know.
Botond opened from early position with a raise of 64,000 and Kirill Zapletin called in the Small Blind before Eiler shoved all-in from the Big Blind. Botond called and Zapletin got out of the way and the table were about to find out Eilers range for the first time and it was wide.
Botond:
Eiler:
Botond had 849,000 and a whole lot of bad luck when the flop ran out giving Eiler the lead with his pocket tens. Then turn and river were no help and it was unlucky 13 for the Hungarian who has had a terrible run of luck today and leaves EPT Vienna.
Balazs Botond raised his small blind and got a call from Daniel Negreanu in the big blind to see a flop. They both checked.
Botond checked the turn as well, before calling 110,000 from Negreanu. He checked a third time on the river and this time faced a 245,000 bet from Negreanu. Botond swiftly called, but threw his cards into the muck in disgust when Negreanu turned over for a rivered two pair. We strongly suspect that Botond had been ahead until the river.
Negreanu's stack headed upwards to 2.814 million; Botond's headed down to 849,000.
With blinds at 15,000/30,000 and a 3,000 ante there is quite a lot of money in the pot to be won uncontested. Konstantinos Nanos has noticed this and has taken the previous three pots and just when people thought he was at it he turned his cards the third time to show .
Konstantinos Nanos is up to 3.3 million after raising to 75,000 from the small blind. He got a call from Matthias Lotze in the big blind, and they saw a flop.
Nanos fired out on every street of the board - 95,000 on the flop, 140,000 on the turn and 300,000 on the river. Lotze quickly and quietly called the flop and turn bets, but come the river, he paused. He tanked up for a long time, tapping a yellow chip against the felt, and eventually he folded. He's down to 890,000 after that curious hand.
Martin Hruby has been less active today than on previous days, dropping in chips by a few hundred thousand but still maintaining a top-eight stack. He took a few back from Matthias Lotze just now, calling on the button (66k) and then quickly raising when Lotze bet out 72k on the flop. He did not have to wait long for his 170k to be returned to him, along with the rest of the pot.
The last of Anestis Pantazidis' chips (around 500k) made their way into the pot preflop when he picked up , but this time there was a bigger hand lurking and ready to call: . The ladies belonged to Balazs Botond, and held as all five board cards emerged . More feature table handshakes, and we're down to lucky 13.
Jose Severino opens the action from under the gun with a raise to 80,000 and Morten Erlandsen makes the call to his left and the two of them see a board. Severino gives his little pinky check as he just taps the felt with his little finger and Erlandsen announces "Check." The turn is the and out comes Severino's little pinky again. Erlandsen announces "Check." The river is the and Severino bets 85,000 and Erlandsen folds.
Then Erlandsen opened from UTG with a bet of 70,000 and Bruno Launais called from the cut-off. Launais asked Erlandsen how much he had left behind. "500?" said Erlandsen and Team Pokerstars Pro Hruby stopped his I Pod and took his ear-piece out before making the call from the Big Blind. The flop was and they all checked. the turn was Hruby checked and Erlandsen bet 120,000 and took down the pot.
First five-bet for some time, up on the feature table, as [Removed:40] opened to 70,000 and was met with a reraise from Kirill Zapletin in the small blind. Vitagliano dwelled up for some time, before four-betting to 330,000.
Zapletin, who the EPT Live commentators seem to think looks like James May but we are more inclined towards Bill Bailey, widened his eyes in a look that was half horror, half defiance. He announced all in.
"How much?" Vitagliano snap-enquired; it was for 983,000 in total. He tanked up for a while, but eventually folded, looking a bit unwell as he did so.