You've got to feel for Tim Ulrich, struggling towards the dinner break with just 45,000 now. Early position Samir Moukawem opened for 10,400, which must have looked promising to Ulrich on the button with . He reraised to 25,000, and after one dwell, action passed back to Moukawem. He was all in and called in a flash.
Moukawem showed which prompted the dwell-pass player to congratulate himself on his laydown of . Moments later and this was reversed the board ran out ...!
The river, however, fell smacking the kings and prompting an equally dramatic table smack from Moukawem who thanked the deck and doubled up to over 120,000.
UTG+1 opened to 6,000 preflop with Denys Chufarin and Dan Heimiller both calling. It was passed around to William Reynolds in the big blind who made it 22,500 and surprisingly the other three players folded. Even Reynolds looked a tad surprised that his squeeze at had got through that easily as he wordlessly stacked added another 20,000 or so to his stack
Around 37,000 had found its way into the pot before the flop with three players in the hand, Jean-Noel Thorel in position. It checked around to him and he bet 14,000, which proved enough to win the hand.
Still, Thorel is not in great shape compared to how he was a few hours ago. Thorel started the day among the big stack on around 190,000 and in the early stages of play soared all the way up to 290,000. Now, even after winning that little pot, he's still down to a roughly average 165,000.
Cathy Hong moved all in from the big blind, squeezing Surinder Sunar who'd called Erik van den Berg's initial preflop raise. Van den Berg made the call - 53,800 (Sunar passed) - and showed , trailing Hong's . She started half a length ahead, and finished ahead too, the board bringing and no upset.
Team PokerStars Pro Alex Gomes has taken a bit of a hit getting involved in a 70k pot, the board reading by the time we got there. Gomes had checked from the big blind and faced a bet of 33,000 from his mid-position opponent. Gomes tanked up for some minutes but eventually he folded, dropping to 150,000 in the process.
Amsterdam Master Classics winner Kristoffer Thorsson has had an amazing day - from just 28,000 around two hours ago (he started the day even shorter on just 21,800), he is now at a mammoth 350,000, among the chip leaders.
After doubling through Brian England to 260,000, we found Thorsson finishing the American off. It looked as though England had shoved and Thorsson had made the call.
England:
Thorsson:
Board: a close-but-no-cigar
England left without a word - and without his jacket, which remained draped over the back of his chair as he disappeared into the casino. We hope he comes back for it. Meanwhile Thorsson looks very comfortable with his newfound big stack status.
With around 25,000 in the pot by the river of the board, Lucien Cohen bet out 10,000 from the small blind and received a snap-call from a gent in mid position. The third player in the hand, Team PokerStars Pro Leo Fernandez, was tanking in late position when we were distracted by an exit a couple tables away so we can't say whether he called too - but when we returned Cohen was raking in the pot. We understand he'd had pocket queens for a flopped set.
The EPT Deauville champ is at 135,000 now, right about average.
Kristoffer Thorsson has doubled up to a massive 260,000, he was playing a huge pot holding against Brian England's and it looked as though the money went in on the turn of the . Thorsson, known as "Sumpas" online started today with a short stack and now he's one of the chip leaders...
EPT Copenhagen finalist Joel Nordkvist has just donated his entire 140,000 chip stack across to Melanie Weisner. The pair got into a preflop raising war which eventually had the Swede all in with against Weisner's , the board came and Weisner increased her stack to a chip leadery-looking 450,000.
Manuel Cuberos has played his last hand at the EPT Grand Final. His exit was a preflop race sort, with vs. Victor Ramdin's . He failed to hit and added another 50,000 or so to Ramdin's stack which grows ever greater (around 200,000 currently).
Meanwhile after performing the bust-out handshake etc. Ramdin immediately turned back to a small notebook which he and neighbour Noah Boeken are passing back and forth, marking numbers and muttering - I know there's some kind of side action or contest going on here but for the life of me I can't work it out. Break the code if you can: "Seven! Oh, do your job [laughing, to the masseuse]... 36. Oh no!"
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. He reraised to 25,000, and after one dwell, action passed back to Moukawem. He was all in and called in a flash.
which prompted the dwell-pass player to congratulate himself on his laydown of 
. Moments later and this was reversed the board ran out 
...
!
smacking the kings and prompting an equally dramatic table smack from Moukawem who thanked the deck and doubled up to over 120,000.
flop with three players in the hand, Jean-Noel Thorel in position. It checked around to him and he bet 14,000, which proved enough to win the hand.
and no upset.
board, Lucien Cohen bet out 10,000 from the small blind and received a snap-call from a gent in mid position. The third player in the hand, Team PokerStars Pro Leo Fernandez, was tanking in late position when we were distracted by an exit a couple tables away so we can't say whether he called too - but when we returned Cohen was raking in the pot. We understand he'd had pocket queens for a flopped set.
. Thorsson, known as "Sumpas" online started today with a short stack and now he's one of the chip leaders...
against Weisner's 
and Weisner increased her stack to a chip leadery-looking 450,000.
. He failed to hit and added another 50,000 or so to Ramdin's stack which grows ever greater (around 200,000 currently).