The final board read and Yann Dion had bet 27,500. Rasmus Agerskov was the player facing the bet and deep in thought. A few minutes ticked by and one player at his table, Ayaz Manji, was getting increasingly agitated. He complained about how much time it was taking for Agerskov to make his decision to which he calmly responded that he was within his rights to call the time. “I already did. Floor. Time.” Said Manji raising his voice. The dealer tried to calm him down, the floor was called and the countdown began. With one second to go Agerskov dropped a chip over the line to indicate a call and Dion turned over for the straight. “Nice hand.” Said Agerskov.
A couple of hands later Govert Metaal limped in the cut-off, the small blind made it up and Manji checked his option. The flop was .It was checked to Metaal who bet 5,100 and won the pot. Manji began his guessing Metaals hand, something he likes to do frequently. This time it ranged from ace queen, through to pocket fours. Metaal remained tight lipped.
Sergio Aido opened for 7,000, Marton Czuczor made the call and Ayaz Manji made up the difference in the big blind. Czuczor wanted to know how much Manji had behind which was 20,000. All three players checked the streets down and the board read . Mani flipped over for a river pair and it was good.
We just caught the chips being shovelled to Jose Carlos Garcia who had doubled up with against Emil Mattson’s . All in preflop the board ran out . Garcia doubled up.
Dmitry Yurasov got it all in with against the of Michel Dattani. Yurasov stood up, not really liking it. The cards ran out . Making both players a straight on the end and Yurasov sat back down. “Everyone loves a chopped pot.” Said a player at the table. “Well…not everyone.”
The board on the river read and Toby Lewis shoved. He was immediately called by Kent Lundmark who tabled for the straight and Lewis’s cards were in the muck, all his chips heading to Lundmark.
Game over for Jose Carlos Garcia, he moved all in from the cutoff with and PCA Champion Dominik Panka moved all in behind him holding . The looked fairly academic but the turn gave Garcia a huge number of outs, but none could hit on the river.
Shayam Srinivasan and Gregoire Boissenot have also been knocked out.