Ivan Freitez has kept himself over the 1 million chip mark today, despite seeming to be involved in a pot every time our glance falls on his table. He just gave Florian Langmann pause for thought in an interesting pot featuring that rarest of things at EPT Copenhagen, a bantery conversation mid-hand...
Caught from the flop, Florian Langmann check-raised a mid-position 46k to 155k. In between was Freitez, who flat called both bets. Heads up for the turn, Langmann checked. Freitez immediately moved all in (for 600k). The action returned to a disappointed looking Langmann who started with that classic poker request, "Will you show me if I fold?"
"Yeah," replied Freitez, before saying, "Why don't you call? I need your chips. You're on my list."
"Everyone's on your list."
Freitez took out an actual list with people's names on it and read off, "Flo-ri-an Lang-mann." He wasn't joking.
Langmann eventually passed and Freitez revealed his turned flush with the .
Juha Helppi moved in from the small blind and Mudassar Khan called off his last 200,000 from the big blind. He found himself ahead with against the Finn's and that's the way it stayed on a board.
Andrea Dalle Molle opened preflop to 26,000 and Surinder Sunar raised for half his stack from the big blind. Molle set him in, Sunar called and we were off to the races.
Sunar:
Molle:
A board of offered no help to the veteran player and former WPT winner, he goes out in 21st place.
Russian Dmitry Vitkind fell with the same hand as Ravn about two minutes later. Johnny Jensen had raised under-the-gun to 28k (more similarities) and been called by the button. Vitkind in the big blind moved all in, and Jensen called after a heartbeat's pause.
Vitkind:
Jensen:
There was no danger to Jensen as the board came out . "Yes!" he exclaimed, while someone on the rail made a banging noise in his honour. He rises to 450k and seems happy about it.
Lone female survivor Pernille Ravn, having wielded her short stack like a mallet yesterday, getting more respect than Aretha Franklin until finally doubling through, has been eliminated.
It was a quick process - she picked up and moved in over the top of under the gun raiser Juha Helppi. Helppi held , called, and hit a flop for overkill.
John Eames opened to 26,000 from early position but EPT Tallinn finalist Dmitry Vitkind pushed all-in from the big blind, Eames gave it a dwell of about 30 seconds before releasing his hand.
Juha Helppi pushed all-in for 135,000 from the button, Pernille Ravn flat-called with around 200,000 back in the small blind but suddenly Lars Krogh reshoved the big blind and Ravn looked disgusted before making an agonised fold.
Helppi seemed happy enough that now despite turning over he had a chance to triple up against Krogh's .
"You folded an ace, yes?" Helppi asked Ravn. She nodded.
The board came and Helppi's two pair trebled his stack to over 400,000. Krogh drops to 675,000