Hugo Lemaire Eliminated in 20th Place (€40,000)
Fairly cut and dried this one. Hugo Lemaire all in from the small blind with and called by Tamas Lendvai's . The board came and Lemaire left with minimal fuss.
Fairly cut and dried this one. Hugo Lemaire all in from the small blind with and called by Tamas Lendvai's . The board came and Lemaire left with minimal fuss.
Georges Yazbeck raised to 45,000 preflop on the button and Torsten Brinkmann called in the small blind to see a flop. Brinkmann checked across to raiser who bet an almost pot-sized 180,000 but the German made the call to see the turn where Brinkmann checked again.
Now Yazbeck moved all in for about 700,000 - an overbet of the pot which sent Brinkmann into the tank for several minutes before he finally made the call.
Yazbeck:
Brinkmann:
The river was the and Brinkmann let out a sigh of relief, he's added a big chunk of chips to his stack.
The Dutch hopes of a deep run for tennis legend Raemon Sluiter have been dashed by a single flopped ace. Sluiter three-bet preflop (130,000) over a 43,000 raise from Tamas Lendvai, which had been called by Simon Higgins. Lendvai moved all-in, Higgins folded (saying he would probably win) and Sluiter instantly called.
Sluiter:
Lendvai,
The flop brought a clap from Lendvai, who otherwise remained silent and motionless through the hand: . The turn and river were and a disappointed Sluiter went to give Fatima Moreira de Melo a hug and collect his still reasonable pay check. Meanwhile Higgins maintains he folded fives.
Up on the feature table where no blogger is permitted to go but the action is fed back to the press room on a screen sans audio, Victor Ramdin was all in.
Ramdin:
Juan Maceiras:
Board:
Ramdin failed to hit, and thus becomes our 23rd place finisher.
The Day 1 chip leader Ole Kristian [Removed:332] dropped from the giddy heights to the felt-touching lows of chip rankings yesterday in one of the most dramatic hands of the tournament, but seemingly unfazed continued to play in the same calmly aggressive style which had given him his lead in the first place.
His Day 4 was very short - picking up and getting his 200,000 in preflop vs. Jose Nadal's . The queens held on the board.
Level: 22
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 2,000
Thomas Pettersson pushed all for his last 200,000 or so from midposition and Georges Yazbeck made a quick call in the next seat along, the cutoff, button and blinds all folded.
Pettersson:
Yazbeck:
The flop came and it looked pretty much done and dusted but the on the turn was the best card in the deck for Yazbeck, now he had a gutshot and a flush draw. The came on the river and Yazbeck fistpumped only to suddenly be in agony when he realised Pettersson had now had a full house.
It's a topsy-turvy game.
Ole Kristian [Removed:332] has doubled up, a pretty impressive feat considering he was all in preflop with against Jose Nadal's and the flop then came . Somehow the board bricked, coming and and the Norwegian youngster has survived for now.
Apologies to Andrew Li, who spent the night with 104,000 but came back today with the 704,000 he actually finished with. Something about 1 and 7 being rather similar without that cross thingy over here - we need to work on our bilingual bag-reading skills.
Tennis player Raemon Sluiter is coming into Day 4 with a solid attitude, and one of the hottest rail birds ever, PokerStars Team Sports Star Fatima Moreira de Melo. Sarah Grant scooped them both before play got underway.