Luca Pagano had about 9,000 left but surprisingly the Italian wasn't at his table and instead was sitting an empty table behind seemingly trying to keep himself calm. He then wandered off for a walk and we were left wondering if he would come back before the dinner break.
Heading across to the table, McLean Karr volunteered that it was because of him, "I rivered him a pot worth almost 60,000..."
Pagano has however, since returned to the table and has begun to grind his short stack.
James Akenhead open-shoved in early position for roughly 7,000. "Now I don't get to squeeze," complained Roland de Wolfe in the big blind. He of course had the option of calling, but in the end he didn't - before the action got around to de Wolfe, Raul Mestre called on the button. Everyone else folded and they turned their cards over.
Akenhead:
Mestre:
Board:
Akenhead flopped pretty much the whole world, made a Broadway straight on the turn, and held on the river. He doubled up to around 15,000 and looks as though he might make it to the dinner break now.
Tough break for short stack Thorsten Schafer right before the dinner break - he had under 11,000 and it was all in vs. 100,000+ stacked James Bord with vs. Bord's . This must have been a preflop spin, as the board rolled out ......! Schafer made a straight on the board but Bord rivered the nut one and knocked him out, admitting it was, "Dirty!" or words to that effect. No hard feelings expressed by Schafer who gets to take his time over the buffet now.
A secret garden filled with barbecue has been the resting place of most of the players this dinner break - they're now back inside to play the last three levels of the day. The early evening saw the action ratchet up yesterday, so we're looking forward to seeing how Day 1b's players attack the higher blind levels.
Rob Hollink (big blind) and Noah Boeken (under the gun) saw a flop; we got there just in time to see Boeken calling a bet from his fellow countryman, bringing the pot size up to around 10,000 by the turn. Again, Hollink bet out, this time to the tune of 6,500, and once more Boeken called. They saw a river as well, the , and this time they both checked. Hollink revealed for flopped two pair; all we managed to see of Boeken's hand before the dealer swept it away was another .
The elder Dutchman is up to 68,000 after that. Boeken, though he lost the hand, is still ahead of Hollink - he's at around 79,000 now.
We got there just in time to see the showdown; it looked like a rather desperate preflop shove by Antonin Teisseire and a very reasonable call by Mayu Roca.
Teisseire:
Roca:
Board:
Teisseire was standing to leave as soon as the king dropped on the flop and was outside the tournament area milliseconds after the river.
Still in the start-of-day lineup which made neighbours of Ben Vinson, Per Linde and Joe Hachem, of the three it is Vinson, who started out making unsuccessful moves and dropping to 13,000, who is ahead on 54,000. Per Linde did just raise Vinson off his prelfop 1,400 though (with a raise to 5,200 with 14k behind) but is still struggling along with 20,500.
Hachem, meanwhile, is down to just 16,000 - we caught this from the turn with the board standing . Hachem had bet 10,000 (around the pot, or just below) and his opponent had ast him in - he passed saying, "So you had aces then?"
He got a shake of the head in response and cajoled, "Come on, don't lie..." but got no show.
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vs. Bord's 
. This must have been a preflop spin, as the board rolled out 
...
! Schafer made a straight on the board but Bord rivered the nut one and knocked him out, admitting it was, "Dirty!" or words to that effect. No hard feelings expressed by Schafer who gets to take his time over the buffet now.
flop; we got there just in time to see Boeken calling a bet from his fellow countryman, bringing the pot size up to around 10,000 by the 
turn. Again, Hollink bet out, this time to the tune of 6,500, and once more Boeken called. They saw a river as well, the 
for flopped two pair; all we managed to see of Boeken's hand before the dealer swept it away was another 
. Hachem had bet 10,000 (around the pot, or just below) and his opponent had ast him in - he passed saying, "So you had aces then?"