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.
Nikolay Losev raised to 5,500 preflop and was called by Alexander Dovzhenko before Eric Sfez made it 15,000 from the blinds. Losev and Dovzhenko both called to see an all-spade flop of . Sfez fired a bet of 15,000 and Losev clicked it to 30,000 while Dovzhenko got out of the way.
Sfez then three-bet to 60,000 and Losev called to see the on the turn. Sfez bet 90,000 and Losev committed his entire stack (which turned out to be 90,200).
Sfez:
Losev:
Sfez was behind but he could catch an ace, queen or spade to win the pot but the river was the , the blankiest blank possible. Losev is the new chip leader.
Lebanese player Albert Daher continues to head in the right direction. He has just knocked out Ihar Soika with against . It looked as though the money had mostly gone in on the flop or turn of a board.
On a final board reading Dario Sammartino had bet 50,000 and it was Albert Daher’s turn to act. They were the only two players left to contest the pot and Daher mulled over the decision. It took a minute of two but he put in some chips to indicate a call. Sammartino asked him, “You got it?” Daher shook his head. Sammartino turned over for the bluff and Daher’s was good.
Crippled, O'Dwyer's remaining chips went in preflop against Yann Dion and Kitai in the blinds. Dion bet Kitai out of the pot on a flop and the French-Canadian's dominated O'Dwyer's on the rest of the board which ran out and .
Davidi Kitai opened for 5,500 and Rasmus Agerskov moved all in for his last 33,000. Steve O’Dwyer re-shoved for a bigger amount and Kitai folded his hand. Agerskov had made his move with a medium ace hand but his timing was a bit off, running into the of O’Dwyer. The cards fell and Agerskov hit his nine to double up and leave O’Dwyer short.