Monster hand, monster flop, weird out of position hand for Peter Akery just now - he cold fourbet 13,800 out of a 50,000 stack from the big blind preflop, prompting a lengthy dwell from first raiser Andrew Li. Li passed, but Johan Verhagen (having made it 6,000) called.
The flop: . Slow check. Slow bet of 7,200 from Verhagen; Akery called.
Turn: : Slow check again. Now Verhagen bet 12,200. Akery called (now with 16,000 behind).
River: : Akery checked a third time but his hopes for further value for his were dashed when Verhagen finally gave up, showing . Li muttered something about passing queens pre, and Akery nearly got the double up he was looking for.
William Thorson limped UTG preflop before Henri Kasper, Daniel Colman and last year's Grand Final winner Nicolas Chouity all also limped. Kenny Hallaert then raised to 6,700 from the small blind and Thorson decided to make the call. Kasper and Colman folded but Chouity recounted his stack before also making the call.
The flop was and Hallaert led out for 12,400, Thorson flat-called but Chouity moved all in for 41,600, Hallaert also moved in and the Swede tank-folded.
Chouity:
Hallaert:
The turn was the and Hallaert could now catch an ace, king or deuce to eliminate last year's winner but the meant Chouity now has about 100,000.
Canadian Simon Charette is busto - having raised to 3,000 and been called by Hans Sybrandi, he moved in over Ruben Velasio Merino's 8,700 reraise, called immediately by the Spaniard with . His was in trouble, and although the flop brought flush possibilities, they failed to come in on the turn and river.
The second table of the day is already broken and the pace of play these 300 Day 2-ers is maintaining is frankly astonishing.
Ben Vinson has left the tournament, running into the of Andrew Li preflop. Li had opened, been raised by Rob Akery to 6,500, and found button Vinson shoving for around 33,000 (his Day 2 starting stack). Li covered both potential opponents comfortably and moved in enough chips to set Akery at risk too. He passed, and Vinson stood up as the board ran out .
David Vamplew is one of the few short stacks getting a full double through at the moment - and with an unlikely hand which the TV cameras caught outdrawing a dominating . Vamplew had shoved the button for 24,000 over a late position limp with and looked like he was getting ready to leave before the flop brought him a ten and the rest of the board no upset. Up to 50,000.
Short stacks are plunging across the line all over the place - with 299 Day 2 players the first minutes of the first level were always going to be crucial for those working with the lower chip counts. Both Nam Le and Pieter de Korver ended up just a few chips up after shipping it with equal or dominated hands - which must be a positive result!
Le moved in for less than 9,000 with , running into Kirill Telezhkin's in the blind, but a board of brought chop #1.
De Korver moved in for 19,900, promptly isolated by Jose Nadal's splash of yellow 5k chips with - he showed and said, "Nice hand," as the board ran out for chop #2.
Konstantinos Nanos has been knocked out by Iulian Ruxandescu after the Greek player came off second best when he was all in with against the Romanian's . The board came , not even a snifter of hope for Nanos who becomes another one of our early casualties.
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. Slow check. Slow bet of 7,200 from Verhagen; Akery called.
: Slow check again. Now Verhagen bet 12,200. Akery called (now with 16,000 behind).
: Akery checked a third time but his hopes for further value for his 
were dashed when Verhagen finally gave up, showing 
and Hallaert led out for 12,400, Thorson flat-called but Chouity moved all in for 41,600, Hallaert also moved in and the Swede tank-folded.
meant Chouity now has about 100,000.
. His 
was in trouble, and although the 
flop brought flush possibilities, they failed to come in on the 
turn and river.
into the 
of Andrew Li preflop. Li had opened, been raised by Rob Akery to 6,500, and found button Vinson shoving for around 33,000 (his Day 2 starting stack). Li covered both potential opponents comfortably and moved in enough chips to set Akery at risk too. He passed, and Vinson stood up as the board ran out 
, running into Kirill Telezhkin's 
in the blind, but a board of 
for chop #2.
after the board came