We have zero access to the feature table and for some reason we are not allowed audio on our live feed; in addition the TV guys seem to have stopped filming the cards or at least letting us see them. This is a real shame because there's been a lot of action up there. We apologise for the lack of details, but here is what we could ascertain:
- Pedro Pellicer doubled through Ivan Freitez. We believe the chips went in on the turn, Pellicer holding and Freitez holding .
- Dag Palovic doubled through Andrew Li. We have no idea what either player was holding, but we can tell you that Palovic looked extremely relieved at the end of the hand. The perpetually cheerful Li never once stopped smiling.
Meanwhile, action on the non-feature table has been slow. The hand of greatest note in the past 15 minutes or so was that when Ankush Mandavia shoved from the cutoff. Tamas Lendvai in the big blind asked how much it was - answer: around 500,000 - and tanked for a while. Mandavia asked him what he had in a suspiciously cheerful and confident voice. "I got a pair," Lendvai told him.
"Pairs are good," said Mandavia; again, rather too confident for a potential caller's liking.
Eventually he folded. Mandavia asked him if he'd had fives. Lendvai claimed sixes.
The two table stage always brings a hush to the rail and a certain tension to proceedings, with a lot riding on every decision. Even the smaller pots feel important somehow, so here's what's been happening on the outer table:
Eugene Yanayt called a small-blind raise from Andrey Danilyuk in the big blind, following it up with another call of his 82,000 bet on the flop. When Danilyuk checked the turn, Yanayt took the pot with a bet of 140,000.
Shortly thereafter, Alessandro Limblici took a turn as preflop raiser (66,000), bringing along only the big blind Tamas Lendvai to the flop. Lendvai check-called 67,000 on the flop, and then another 119,000 on the turn. When Lendvai checked the river, Limblici quickly checked behind showing the . Lendvai won the pot with .
Shiraz Soltaninassab, sitting on under 400,000, moved all in preflop over a raise from Andrew Li (who'd made it 63,000, probably). Li quickly called, and they were on their backs, Soltaninassab with a dominated to Li's .
There was no help for the all-in player on the board, and we're down to 14 players.
Eugene Yanayt continues to be the most aggressive player at the outer table, he opened to 60,000 preflop and was called by the other big stack on the table, Torsten Brinkmann. The German check-called a bet of 70,000 on the flop before the turn and river were checked down. Yanayt mucked as Brinkmann turned over for the pot.
Ankush Mandavia opened to a non-standard (most players are min-raising) 85,000 and it folded around to Thomas Pettersson in the big blind, who tanked. "I wanna get it in with this hand," Mandavia told him. "Come on, ship it." Pettersson declined to ship though, and Mandavia picked up the blinds and antes. He allowed Pettersson to turn over one of his hole cards - it was the .
Eugene Yanayt min-raised from the hijack and it folded around to Torsten Brinkmann in the big blind who reraised to 195,000. Yanayt tanked for several minutes, and then four-bet to 450,000.
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flop. When Danilyuk checked the 
turn, Yanayt took the pot with a bet of 140,000.
flop. Lendvai check-called 67,000 on the 
turn. When Lendvai checked the 
river, Limblici quickly checked behind showing the 
. Lendvai won the pot with 
.
to Li's 
.
board, and we're down to 14 players.
flop before the 
turn and 
and Palovic's big slick was no longer in the running, the Slovakian goes out in 14th place.
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