John Eames opened to 50,000 from UTG+1 and Joel Nordkvist made the call from the big blind but the board was checked all the way to the river where it was checked to Eames who bet 56,000. Nordkvist thought for a moment and called.
Eames turned over and that was enough to win the pot.
Nikolas Liakos min-raised from the button and to his immediate left Kevin Iacofano reraised to 130,000. Liakos shoved for 622,000, Iacofano called, and it was an easy double up for the Swede.
Iacofano:
Liakos:
Board: making Liakos the slightly bigger flush.
Liakos is now up there with his fellow Swedes, at 1.3 million.
The newly-doubled Nikolas Liakos raised to 50,000 and Jens Lauridsen shoved for around 400,000. Snap-call.
Lauridsen:
Liakos:
Board:
Lauridsen valiantly cried, "Seks! Seks!" [that's six in Danish, behave yourselves, the more puerile-minded of you] but the seks never came and Lauridsen was soon heading for the rail. Liakos has effectively tripled his stack in two hands, and is up to around 1.75 million.
We're close to our final table now, as Simon Hanninger busts out. Picking up he moved in preflop, but Joel Nordqvist re-shoved behind him with the dominating which held along the board of . Quick and painless (or painful if you're Hanninger); one table will play to a final of eight. This was Hanninger's first ever big live tournament and he seems happy with a 10th place finish.
The most amusing sight over the last quarter of an hour? The ten minutes it took to move Per Linde's bucketload of chips across from the feature table to the outer table.
He then played two hands and now they're spending another ten minutes moving him back again...
The tournament clock has been put on hold as they count the stacks of the final nine players. They grab a couple of words with their railers, or chat into mobile phones as the TV table is examined. We'll bring the action once there is some.
Per Linde opened to 52,000 from the button and Mudassar Khan defended from the big blind. The flop came and Khan check-folded to Linde's bet so fast we didn't even see how much it was.
Michael Tureniec then raised to 50,000 and picked up the blinds.
John Eames opened UTG to 52,000 and Andre Dalle Molle flat-called despite having a shortish stack. Everyone else folded and the flop came , Eames checked and Molle quickly moved all-in. Eames gave it some brief thought but folded.
Nikolas Liakos raised to 52,000 from the hijack and won the blinds and antes.
Juha Helppi raised to 55,000 UTG and everyone folded.
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board was checked all the way to the river where it was checked to Eames who bet 56,000. Nordkvist thought for a moment and called.
and that was enough to win the pot.
making Liakos the slightly bigger flush.
he moved in preflop, but Joel Nordqvist re-shoved behind him with the dominating 
which held along the board of 
, Eames checked and Molle quickly moved all-in. Eames gave it some brief thought but folded.