Alerted to his table by his neighbour's encouraging cry of, "Go Germany!" we saw Fabian Quoss commit his last 25,000 preflop when it passed to him in the cutoff. Big blind Jose De La Guardia, our sole remaining contender from Panama, made the call in the big blind with , up against the short stack's .
The board gave De La Guardia a set: and a total stack now of 235,000.
There was roughly 18,000 in the pot when we arrived on the flop; Jeffrey Hakim had bet 7,500 with 34,000 behind. Sam Chartier, himself not particularly comfortable on 60,000, sighed and tanked up for a while. Eventually he folded, and Hakim is now at 60,000 too. Between them, they have one average stack.
Leo Margets has been knocked out in a largish looking pot when her failed to overcome Sami Kelopuro's on a board of . The Finn has stack of what looks to be about 150,000 now, can he finally have a deep tournament run?
We found Ran Azor betting 12,000 on the turn of a board; Victor Ramdin across the table announced, "OK, buddy call," and dropped the requisite chips across the line. They both checked the river and Ramdin turned over for top pair, an interested expression on his face. He was to be disappointed, though - Azor just mucked as he dropped to 42,000. "Did you have an ace?" Ramdin tried, but Azor didn't want to comment.
Felix Bleiker is out, having found an open spot to move in his short stack - 36,200 - with . Behind him lurked Team Pro Noah Boeken with the dominating , however, which duly held. Boeken gave him a little bit of a rub asking the dealer to, "Give him a nine!" on the turn when the board had come but both players were smiling and there was a polite exit on the river.
A small crowd of Estonian media surrounding Henri Kasper's table alerted us to the fact that their boy was doubling up through Day 1b chip leader Ole Kristian [Removed:332].
Kasper:
[Removed:332]:
Board:
Kasper is out of immediate danger, but remains among the shorter stacks on 50,000. [Removed:332]'s stack was barely dented and he is at what looks to be around 300,000.
Maria Maceiras (younger sister of Team PokerStars Pro Juan Maceiras) just doubled up to around 55,000 after she reraised all in with and got called by . The flop hit both the Spaniard's hole cards coming and although the might have caused some slight concern, the river was the to confirm her jump from short stack to slightly-better-than-a-short stack.
Former Irish Open Winner, Christer Johansson has been eliminated after his last chips went in with against Vasily Fursov's when the board came a decisive .