Helen Prager has halted the downward movement of her chip stacks abruptly with a full double through to over 20,000. She had patiently declined to get involved with Michael Tureniec a couple of hands previously (he three-bet her button raise out of the small blind and she let it go) but now found a flop to commit on.
She'd raised preflop and picked up Carlos Oliveira in position plus one other, and the flop came down . She bet 1,200, Oliveira raised to 2,700 and after Player 3 bowed out, she moved in for 9,050 in total. The size of her stack made Oliveira wince and hesitate holding the chips to call (it would leave him with under 20k himself if he called and lost). Finally with a shrug he threw in the chips and showed vs. Prager's . The pair held over the turn and river and she's back in the game.
On the tables next to her both Josh Prager and William Thorson have dwindled yet further - both are now under 10k.
Niclas Hall has busted a player with the mighty Aces, not only picking them up but hitting a set too. He took a fraction of a moment to swear gently under his breath when his opponent moved in on the flop but was obviously going nowhere with - the all-in shorter stack's flush draw with his missed and he rose to over 40,000.
Staying ahead of the chip average, despite seeming to be unable to remain in his seat for a full orbit, Peter Hedlund is making his suggestions known to the TD, his acquaintances, the press etc.
On the coffee/juice table: "Take this f**ing coffee away and bring out some real liquor!"
On Pernille Ravn (handing her an orange juice): "She's a good girl."
On Arne Langset (addressing his table): "If you bust him, you get busted on the f**ing knee by me." Pause. A reconsider. "In the balls."
On breakfast: "I took a semi-cooked egg."
On war: "Thirty years of killing..."
On his opponent he outdrew, "He played it correctly."
There seems to have been a clerical error of some sort in assessing yesterday's field - it actually numbered 214 runners, instead of the 213 previously published. Today's field comprised 235 hopefuls, meaning that the total number of runners for this year's Scandinavian Open is 449 - well up from last year's 423.
Of these 449, 64 are going to get paid, with 64th place paying out DKK 55,000 (around €7,380) and first place paying out a very lovely DKK 3,700,000 (around €496,271 which is not too shabby, although it sounds better in kroner). Please head over to the Payouts tab for the full breakdown.
The day started off badly for the Prager family, with both Josh and Helen finding themselves super-short, super-early - but both now are staging impressive recoveries. Mrs. Prager enjoyed that double up courtesy of Carlos Oliveira around half an hour ago, and remains on a much-improved 20,000 as we type. Mr. Prager was even shorter than that on just 7,500 or so, but we just now witnessed him enjoying a full double up to 17,000.
Josh Prager just managed to double up again after he moved all-in on the turn of a board with and found a caller holding . The changed nothing and Prager now has 35,000.
Easy game this, find a hand, bink/hold, rinse and repeat.
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turn and river and she's back in the game.
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changed nothing and Prager now has 35,000.