Roberto Romanello shoved for 75,000 under the gun and it folded right around to Andrew Teng in the big blind, who tanked. The Romanello monologue commenced.
"You don't want to double me up, I'm right next to you. Just out of interest, what's your range here? You don't need to worry about giving me information, I'm already all in." Then a change of tack. "Oh f*** it, just call me, get it over with." To the bloggers: "Do I get a penalty if I tell him my hand?" Shrugs from us and no floor man in sight. "I've got pocket sixes. I think you've got ace-ten."
Eventually Teng folded, but kept his cards - he wanted to see Romanello's hand, and seemed willing to show his. "I've got pocket sixes, but I don't want to show my hand, because, you know," Romanello announced.
"Because you don't have pocket sixes," someone at the table laughed. Teng showed an ace (he claimed ) and play continued.
Rainer Emde had a lucky escape after shoving with and getting called by Andrew Teng holding . Emde stood to leave when the cards were turned over, but hovered over the table as the flop came down , put his belongings back down as the turn came the , and finally reoccupied his seat as the river came down the for a split pot. Teng looked rather unhappy about this.
Victor Ramdin, who at one point yesterday occupied the top spot in the chip counts, is down to 255,000 after his proved insufficient against Sergey Altbregin's on a board. The Russian doubled to 220,000.
We have lost Vanessa Selbst from the heavily populated American table. She opened up with a raise from under the gun and received five callers.
Flop:
The action checked around to Gianluca Benvenuto who bet 26,000 from the button and Selbst moved all-in for approx. 120,000. Everyone folded around to Benvenuto who made one of the easiest calls of his tournament so far.
Benvenuto:
Selbst:
The turn and river did not help Selbst and despite being one of our front runners for most of the early part of the tournament she now has to settle for the sunshine of San Remo.
Claudio Marino just knocked out Simone Michele with vs when the board came . Michele held his head in his hands and looked distraught while Marino dashed halfway across the room to celebrate with several fist pumps.
Matteo Sbrana is one of the first post-money casualties, losing a flip against Team PokerStars Pro Richard Toth with against Toth's when the board came making the Hungarian a rivered straight.