Jani Valmunen has crashed out of the EPT Copenhagen in dramatic fashion, after a flop sealed his fate as tight as Unibond around a bathtub...
Michael Aron raised from the button when it folded round to him, and Vilmunen upped it to 3,200 from the small blind. Aron made the call.
The flop: . Out led Vilmunen for 6,100. An expressionless call from Aron.
The turn: . Now a pause while Vilmunen considered his <20k remaining and the board, his opponent, in short, all the things one generally might consider. He moved in and must have felt that sinking feeling when he was snap-called.
Vilmunen:
Aron:
The two Aces remaining somewhere in the deck stayed submerged (the river was the ), and Vilmunen hit the rail while Aron is up to around 60,000.
Viktor Blom has taken a few hits and is now back below his starting stack.
Most recently we witnessed a curious hand which saw Blom open to 1,000 and the gentleman to his immediate left (let us call him Player A) call. The gentleman in the big blind (let us call him Big Blind) made it 3,600 to go, and both Blom and Player A made the call.
They saw a flop and Big Blind bet out 6,400. Blom and Player A both called again and they proceeded to the turn - the . This time it checked around to Player A, who promptly announced all in. Big Blind and Blom both folded and Player A took the pot. Curious.
The next hand Blom took another, smaller hit, opening to 1,000 again but then check-folding to his one opponent on the turn of the board. Blom is at 26,000.
Team PokerStars Pro Florian Langmann found himself calling preflop on the button with , which hit the flop. Presumably Martin Jacobson had a little something too, as both he and Zachary prager came along to the turn for 1,600. This was the ; Jacobson and Prager checked and Langmann bet 4,100. Prager alone made the call. The river brought the and another swift check from Prager. After giving it some thought (and a glance to his c.18k remaining), Langmann checked behind and revealed his hand. Prager tapped the table with his hand and threw it in the muck.
Ladies and gentlemen, this already unusually subdued and orderly tournament just got about 50% quieter.
Peter Hedlund, all in:
Michael Aron, covering him by a very wide margin:
Hedlund: "I'm out soon. Unless you put a queen, once in the world."
Board:
Hedlund: "The only guy in the world I can push with that against, because you made that stupid play." [Apologies, but we don't recall witnessing whatever "stupid play" Hedlund was referring to.]
Aron: shrug.
Hedlund wandered off, perhaps to investigate whether the refreshments table had magically sprouted beers. It had not, and after a moment he returned. He announced, "F***ing unnecessary," then went on to repeat verbatim his earlier statement about Aron being the only person in the world he could push against, and finally asked him, "Did you think I had aces?"
Aron, now looking weary: "I did not think you had aces."
Either way, Hedlund eventually left, and Aron is our current chip leader on a commanding 125,000.
Charles Chaaya probably doesn't know whether to be happy or incredibly cross. Simon Hanninger had opened to 1,000 preflop from early position with Omr Markovitch 3-betting to 2,500 in middle position.
Chaaya now moved all-in from the cutoff and got out of his seat and turned his back on the table, but when he turned around his hand had been mucked although no-one had seen what had happened and the dealer was adamant she did not muck his cards.
Kevin, the tournament director ruled the following: Because the hand was now in the muck and not retrievable Chaaya's hand was dead so he could not move all-in, but he would have to put in the 2,500 reraise.
As a result Hanniger set Markovitch all-in and the latter called with behind to Hanniger's . The board cam and Markovitch was eliminated, Chaaya despite losing 2,500 without getting involved wasn't too upset, perhaps he would've been out if he had protected his cards?
After an hour or so of watching his stack head feltwards, Viktor "Isildur1" Blom has completely run out of chips and will therefore not be progressing any further in this tournament.
The flop read when the chips went in.
Blom: for a flush draw
Ramzi Jelassi: for aces
Turn: not a heart, but the .
River: , also not a heart.
As he headed for the door, Blom told our own Gloria Balding, "Mehhh, I slept one hour. It's OK."
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. Out led Vilmunen for 6,100. An expressionless call from Aron.
. Now a pause while Vilmunen considered his <20k remaining and the board, his opponent, in short, all the things one generally might consider. He moved in and must have felt that sinking feeling when he was snap-called.
), and Vilmunen hit the rail while Aron is up to around 60,000.
flop and Big Blind bet out 6,400. Blom and Player A both called again and they proceeded to the turn - the 
. This time it checked around to Player A, who promptly announced all in. Big Blind and Blom both folded and Player A took the pot. Curious.
board. Blom is at 26,000.
flop. Presumably Martin Jacobson had a little something too, as both he and Zachary prager came along to the turn for 1,600. This was the 
; Jacobson and Prager checked and Langmann bet 4,100. Prager alone made the call. The river brought the 
and another swift check from Prager. After giving it some thought (and a glance to his c.18k remaining), Langmann checked behind and revealed his hand. Prager tapped the table with his hand and threw it in the muck.
. The board cam 
and Markovitch was eliminated, Chaaya despite losing 2,500 without getting involved wasn't too upset, perhaps he would've been out if he had protected his cards?
, also not a heart.
