Lauri Varonen has not had the very best of levels in the past few. He was our chip leader for most of the early part of the day - after crippling Kevin Iacofano - but he has doubled up a series of short stacks and now has 300,000.
We were just watching his table as he doubled up another short stack - this time Jens Haenel. It was a flip with Haenel's finding a turn to pip Varonen's to the post.
Magnus Hansen just loves EPT Copenhagen. With a 3rd place finish in 2008 and a 9th place finish in 2010 the Dane must look forward to this event each year. He has once again, not only made the money, but looks good value to have another deep run. Here he is tangling with Melanie Weisner.
Steve O'Dwyer raised to 8,600 in early position, Weisner called in the cut-off, Bjarke Hansen called on the button and Lauri Varonen called in the small blind before Magnus Hansen raised to 31,800 from the big blind. O'Dwyer mucked instantly but Weisner put in a 58,800 four-bet. Bjarke Hansen and Varonen moved out of the way before Magnus Hansen moved all-in for over 300,000 and Weisner snap-mucked.
Michael Tureniec spent most of this level hoovering (other brands of vacuum cleaners available) up the chips of those around him as he tried to wrestle a firm grip of the tournament. Martin El-Kher put a stop to that after he was fortunate to back into a straight.
El-Kher opened to 8,000 from the cut-off and emptied the clip with bets of 10,000, 22,000, and 42,000 on each street. Tureniec was the only caller on the button and all the way through the board.
El-Kher opened for a back door straight and the pot.
From the cutoff Niels van Alphen opened to 8,000 and Melanie Weisner called on the button. Bjarke Hansen called from the small blind but Lauri Varonen spoiled the party and pumped up the cost of playing to 32,500. After pausing for a few moments van Alphen announced he was all in and all three of his opponents quickly folded.
Mikhail Petrov has been left with just 18,000 chips and will need to pull off some Mickey Petersen-esque short-stack skills if he is to survive much longer at the PokerStars EPT Copenhagen Main Event.
He entered a preflop raising war, him in the small blind, Alejandro Sanchez Fernandez on the button. The war resulted Fernandez being all in and at risk of elimination.
Fernandez:
Petrov:
Fernandez was a 35/65 underdog and needed to catch some cards. He picked up a flush draw on the flop, missed on the but completed his flush on the arrival of the on the river. Petrov simply handed over 188,500 of his stack like it was nothing at all.
Bjarke Hansen and Lauri Varonen have just had a test of wills over on their table that left anyone who was watching flabbergasted.
On a flop, Hansen lead out with a bet and Varonen raised to 25,700. Hansen then took back his original bet and made it 64,700 to play. But that was not the end of the betting because Varonen raised to 102,200 in total. Again, that is not the end because Hansen took sip from his bottle of water and announced he was all in! Varonen almost immediately folded only to be shown !
The look on everyone's face, including Melanie Weisner's was an absolute picture. Never have a group of people collectively said "WTF" without actually saying a word.
"All-in and call. All-in and call," could be heard shouted in a French accent from across the room. We dashed over to find Pierre Neuville the beneficiary of a double-up courtesy of Juha Lauttamus.
The Finn told us there had been action pre flop before Neuville led out from the small blind on the flop. Lauttamus shoved and the Team PokerStars Pro snap called with . Lauttamus tabled the drawing but failed to hit through the turn and river.
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finding a 
turn to pip Varonen's 
to the post.
board.
for a back door straight and the pot.
but completed his flush on the arrival of the 
on the river. Petrov simply handed over 188,500 of his stack like it was nothing at all.
flop, Hansen lead out with a bet and Varonen raised to 25,700. Hansen then took back his original bet and made it 64,700 to play. But that was not the end of the betting because Varonen raised to 102,200 in total. Again, that is not the end because Hansen took sip from his bottle of water and announced he was all in! Varonen almost immediately folded only to be shown 
!
flop. Lauttamus shoved and the Team PokerStars Pro snap called with 
. Lauttamus tabled the drawing 
but failed to hit through the 
turn and river.