When the day started we brought you news of table 19, and its array of superstars. We lost Kenny Hallaert and Salman Behbehani earlier on in the day and the Table of Death has since broke and the players have been moved to...the new Table of Death!
Seat 4: Roberto Romanello
Seat 5: Jude Ainsworth
Seat 6: Jan Bendik
Seat 7: McLean Karr
Seat 8: The ghost of Tom Marchese
Marchese, who won a seat online and decided not to turn up, is now down to around 9,000 but he has still out-lasted over half of the field! The man is a poker superstar!
Jason Wheeler opened to 2,400 before Roussos Koliakoydakis made it 6,000 a couple of seats down. Jan Collado squeeked out a tiny four-bet to just 9,800, Wheeler folded and Koliakoydakis asked for a count on Collado's stack.
"About 24,000," was the reply.
Koliakoydakis made the call to see a flop and checked, Collado moved all in and Koliakoydakis snap-called.
Collado:
Koliakoydakis:
The turn and river changed nothing and German, who was briefly chip leader yesterday, was out.
Mikhail Korotkikh has just received a friendly warning from the tournament officials for being a little over-exuberant, but come on...poker is supposed to be exciting...don't suppress it!
Korotkikh was down to 13,000 when he moved all-in and was called by Dimitrios Mpallas.
Korotkikh
Mpallas
Korotkikh was down and almost out when the board ran out , but the on the river sent him into howls of shouting and laughter. After Korotkikh counted his stack he had 36,000.
Korotkikh kept on moving all-in until eventually he was called by Sjors Harmens.
Korotkikh
Harmens
Board:
Korotkikh went ballistic and the tournament director pulled him up and gave him a lesson in etiquette.
Ioannis Taramas has had a very good morning and it just seems to be getting better. He has just eliminated Andreas Chalkiadakis in a pre flop confrontation and now has 150,000.
PokerStars Greek Challenger Georgios Kapalas is hanging on by his fingernails. He moved his last 7,700 into the mixer with and was called by Stelios Rizos holding . The board of confirming the Kapalas double up.
David Vamplew has doubled up to 60,000 after being more than happy to get his stack in with against Jason Wheeler's preflop. The board of never looked like helping Wheeler who has sunk down to 40,000 as a result.