"That's an insta-call with sevens", said Stuart Fox to PokerStars qualifier Oleg Epp after he doubled through him.
Epp raised to 6,200 before Fox three-bet all-in for 27,200. Epp took more than three minutes (felt like ten) to call with . Fox opened and got there through the board.
Meanwhile Sami Kelopuro continued his rampaging start to the day on a neighboring table. He eliminated a player from the Estonian poker playing family named Kasper. Katri Kasper was the last representative of her family to bust.
Jeff Sarwer raised to 5,100 in late position and was hit with a three-bet from Vicenzo Apicella when he made it 15,000 from the small blind. PokerStars qualifier Danny Nierop was sat like a coiled snake in the big blind and he struck when he moved all-in for 81,800. Sarwer made the fold but Apicella was a little bit more reluctant to let the hand go.
"Will you show if I fold?" He asked.
"I bet you $100 you are folding anyway," said a chuckling Joe Ebanks.
Apicella did fold pocket jacks face up.
"I folded ace-queen," said Sarwer.
Nierop didn't give two hoots, he had a tournament he was still playing in and 115,000 chips.
Johan van Til cannot stop winning pots. Irene Baroni made her standard 5,100 button raise. Recognising that Van Till three-bet to 17,000 but Kjartan Jonsson already had exactly that amount counted out in his hand and he called in the big blind. Action back to Baroni and she also called so we had three to the flop and a 55k pot to play for.
Flop:
Van Til led out with a bet of 26,500 and both of his opponents folded their hands.
Team PokerStars Pro Arnaud Mattern dashed off pretty quickly after he busted and we can completely understand that. He's a good lad though and texted us details of his exit. He wrote:
"Aq vs kings for 20big. all go pref as i reshove."
Anton Ionel, who has had an amazing last 12 months at the felt, will not be adding EPT Tallinn winner to his list of achievements after he was sent to the rail courtesy of Jani Sointula.
Ionel had been short stacked since the start of play and he committed all of his chips with and was rather unfortunate to run straight into Sointula's . The Romanian caught a king on the turn but any hopes of a suckout were soon quashed and Ionel heads to the rail.
We are now down to 49 players and the bubble is quickly approaching.
Lari Sihvo has lost a lot of chips and we think the main beneficiary may have been Grzegorz Cichocki when we compare stack for stack. Here are the two clashing in a recent hand.
Sihvo raised to 6,000 from the cut-off and Cichocki three-bet out of the small blind making it 16,000 to play. Sihvo asked for a count before making the call and the two of them shared a flop of . Cichocki fired out a c-bet of 20,000 and Sihvo called. Both players checked the turn and then Cichocki bet 35,000 at the sight of the river and Sihvo paid him off. Cichocki peeled over and Sihvo mucked with a rye smile.
. Fox opened 
and got there through the 
board.
and was rather unfortunate to run straight into Sointula's 
. Cichocki fired out a c-bet of 20,000 and Sihvo called. Both players checked the 
turn and then Cichocki bet 35,000 at the sight of the 
river and Sihvo paid him off. Cichocki peeled over 
and Sihvo mucked with a rye smile.
