Free as a Birt
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Level 9
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Michael Birt is one of level one's early casualties. Returning today with around the starting stack of 30,000, he was unlucky to run a good hand into a superb one preflop. He'd raised to 2,500 and picked up Luca Falaschi as a caller, before big blind Niclas Hall moved all-in. Birt thought for a while and made the call with 
. When Falaschi passed Hall showed 
which promptly hit a third king on the flop - he's now up to 80,000.