Soren Jensen raised to 650 in early position and David Vamplew called one seat to his immediate left. The flop was and Jensen made a c-bet for 900. Action on the Scot and he raised to 2,425 and waited for Jensen's next move. The Dane made the call and we moved onto the on the turn. Jensen checked and Vamplew bet 4,050 and this time Jensen folded.
Pierre Neuville was refusing to be pushed around. He raised to 600 from late position and was raised up to 1,200 by Jan Verstraete in the small blind. The Team PokerStars Pro put his fellow countryman to the test with a four-bet to 4,000. It did the job as Verstraete folded.
Jan Molby got the better of Roberto Romanello. The Welshman check-called bets of 1,200 and 2,500 on the flop and turn. The final board read and both players checked on the river. Molby opened and took the pot as Romanello mucked.
Melanie Weisner raised to 700 in early position and the player in the hijack seat made the call. The flop was and Weisner put 900 more into the pot. Her opponent made the call and the pair saw the on the turn, and both players checked, as they did with the river. At showdown Weisner won the pot with and her opponent mucked his hand.
Team PokerStars Pro Arnaud Mattern has lost a little ground after paying off Martin El-Kher's river raise.
Joining the action on a board, Mattern fired a bet of 3,050 into El-Kher who was sat there with both fists on his forehead. He moved one of them to pick up the chips needed to call. The river was the putting four clubs on the board and Mattern bet again, this time he made it 4,200 to play. El-Kher, again with his head on his fists, sat upright, counted out some chips and bet them. 10,450 was the total bet.
Mattern riffled his chips for 25-30 seconds before exhaling loudly, pulling back his original bet and replacing it with enough chips to make the call.
Kasper Jacobsen opened the betting to 800 from late position and was called in a number of spots. To his direct left is Canracy Khun and he called, to his left is Sami Kelopuro and he called in the hijack. David Vamplew called in the small blind and Martin Prager called in the big blind too.
Flop: - Vamplew checked, Prager checked, Jacobsen bet 3,000, Khun folded, Kelopuro called and Vamplew folded. Still with us? Good. Now Prager check-raised to just 7,000 and this time only Jacobsen called.
Turn: - Prager bet 6,500 and Jacobsen quickly called.
River: Prager checked, Jacobsen tried to get a 24,000 bet through but Prager was having none of it and after letting out a small sigh he made the call.
Jacobsen: - for top pair and a busted straight draw
Prager: - for a full house and the win!
The elimination rate is picking up slightly now. Out of the three listed below Endravuz Duzgun was the unluckiest.
He flopped trip aces with big-slick only for Danny Neess to overtake him on the turn. He held pocket jacks and made a full house when the turn came a jack. Duzgun said it was impossible for him to get away from it as he left. That helped Nees up to 88,000 chips.
We have just seen the top three hands in NLHE come out to play and here is the story.
Simon Ravnsbaek raised to 725 from under the gun, Melanie Weisner called in middle position and the cutoff called before Ilkin Amirov raised on the button making it 2,275 to play. Wim Bos was seated in the small blind and he moved all-in for 17,900. Ravnsbaek asked for a count before making the call and the action folded around to Amirov who bleakly said, "fold."
Bos turned over pocket kings, Ravnsbaek turned over pocket aces and Amirov showed everyone that he had folded pocket queens. Plenty of excitement, but it had not even started. The flop was giving Bos a set of kings. Ravnsbaek remained unmoved even when the gave him a better set on the turn. The river card was the which would have given Amirov a set as well!
Ravnsbaek is up to 80,000, Amirov has 50,000 and Bos is out.