Let that be a warning to Table Reynolds, who just saw US-on-US-action eliminate Anthony Maranca in a c.400k pot.
Dan Heimiller started it all by limping preflop for 3,000. Button William Reynolds made it 8,000 on the button; over to big blind Maranca who three-bet to 23,000. Heimiller passed quickly but Reynolds had a little look at his stack - which he estimated at 170,000 at the start of the hand - and then raised again, to 45,000.
This triggered a seemingly simultaneous all-in/call:
Maranca:
Reynolds:
The board: .
"Every time he limped, you isolated," Maranca ruefully mentioned as he stood up. "Good luck, man," he added, "Take it down."
Yesterday Shander de Vries hit running kings with to crack - well just now he held on a board against to bust yet another player. The Dutchman is on a role as we head towards the final break of the day.
All we know is that Nicolas Chouity was spotted leaving the casino; on closer inspection it turned out that his former seat was indeed empty, meaning that there will be no repeat performance by last year's champion.
Kristoffer Thorsson has taken back the chip lead after he won two huge pots, the first with against Sami Kelopuro's to eliminate the Finn. The second was when he flopped a set of eights on a board and had someone move all in on a blank turn with only ...
We understand that there had been a raise before Johannes Strassmann went all in and Victor Ramdin called behind. Either way the cards were on their backs when we arrived, and the two were soon shaking hands.
Strassmann:
Ramdin:
Board:
Strassmann took his leave and his fellow Team PokerStars Pro Ramdin collected the pot and upped his stack to 295,000. We're not sure if it was in connection to this particular hand or another, but in the post-bustout chatter Ramdin announced, "Everything worked well so I look like a genius." Quote of the day.
Imre Leibold, scourge of the Estonian poker scene, has busted out with just one table left to go to the money. The hand that got his chips in the middle preflop: . He re-raised Mclean Karr who was not to be budged from the big blind - and no surprise: he had !
EPT regular Masa Kagawa has been eliminated after he pushed all in with and got called by the small blind's , the board coming to bust the Japanese player.
With the bubble fast approaching - bets are being placed in the press room over whether we'll hit the magic number 104 tonight - it's no time to be a short stack. Latest to get his chips in is newly signed Team PokerStars Pro Eugene Katchalov, who open-shoved for his last 55,000 in mid position. The players behind him took turns tanking, but in the end no-one wanted to risk it and he just got the blinds and antes. He's still in pretty poor shape on 63,000.
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to crack 
on a 
to bust yet another player. The Dutchman is on a role as we head towards the final break of the day.
to eliminate the Finn. The second was when he flopped a set of eights on a 
board and had someone move all in on a blank turn with only 
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. He re-raised Mclean Karr who was not to be budged from the big blind - and no surprise: he had 
and Leibold headed to the rail
, the board coming 
to bust the Japanese player.