We strolled by Frank Op de Woerd's table (by the by in addition to Liv Boeree and Per Linde, he is now sharing with none other than Team PokerStars Pro and all-round legend Salvatore Bonavena) to find the erstwhile press member raising to 725 in the cutoff. Basil Yaiche called on the button, Ilya Ermakov called too in the big blind, and they saw a flop. The subsequent action went as follows:
Flop: - it checked around to Yaiche who bet 900; both Ermakov and Op de Woerd called.
Turn: - all three checked.
River: - Ermakov checked and this time Op de Woerd bet what looked like 2,500. Ermakov gave it up but Yaiche called, and a moment later had mucked to Op de Woerd's for trips.
In a hand lasting a couple minutes into the break, popular young Lithuanian Kristijonas Andrulis picked up a very hefty pot and is now at a commanding 85,000.
The board read when we arrived and there was already around 20,000 in the pot. Jean Marc Thomas had checked, and Andrulis had bet 6,000. Thomas tanked, and eventually called - and a moment later he mucked when Andrulis turned over .
Andrulis has a fine record in EPT side events - he took down two side events at EPT Tallinn, including the high roller event, and then won another side event and came second in the high roller at Vilamoura too. His best finish in an EPT Main Event so far was 23rd place at Copenhagen last year, but it's got to be just a matter of time before the affable Litho makes a big splash in one of these.
We got to the table late and the flop and turn had already been dealt.
Board:
Team Pokerstars Pro Vanessa Rousso had bet 1,200, and her opponent, had raised to 2,525. Rousso was counting her stack and she had 15,350 give or take an odd chip. She made the minimum three-bet making it 5,050 to play and her opponent moved all-in.
"I guess you have the king then," she said.
"If you fold I will show you," came the reply.
She did indeed fold and he kept to his word and showed the .
Yes, Alec Torelli couldn't iron out the Kinks in his game today. He was finally all-in preflop with but couldn't catch the board against Samlane Phomveha's after the board came
Jeffrey Hakim opened the hand with a min-raise under the gun. Undeterred by this often suspicious move, Hichem Ben Halima reraised to 2,200 in the cutoff and Romain Sidhoum called on the button. Hakim asked Ben Halima how much he had left (answer: 13,000) before flat-calling, and the three of them saw a flop.
Flop:
It checked around to Sidhoum who bet 2,600 - but back to Hakim, who now check-raised to 6,700. Ben Halima quickly gave it up and after a little while Sidhoum did too, leaving Hakim to pick up the pot and thereby bump his stack up to 53,000.
Things are not going terribly well for the blinged-up Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier. Most recently we found him reraising Joe Ebanks preflop - but Ebanks four-bet to around 4,000 over ElkY's 2,125 reraise and ElkY dejectedly folded.
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- it checked around to Yaiche who bet 900; both Ermakov and Op de Woerd called.
- all three checked.
- Ermakov checked and this time Op de Woerd bet what looked like 2,500. Ermakov gave it up but Yaiche called, and a moment later had mucked to Op de Woerd's 
for trips.
when we arrived and there was already around 20,000 in the pot. Jean Marc Thomas had checked, and Andrulis had bet 6,000. Thomas tanked, and eventually called - and a moment later he mucked when Andrulis turned over 
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but couldn't catch the board against Samlane Phomveha's 
