Hand #19: Mika Paasonen raises to 45,000 and wins the blinds and antes.
Hand #20: Sander Lylloff raises to 60,000, Greg Dyer calls from the button and Mika Paasonen calls from the small blind. The flop is . Paasonen checks, Lylloff bets 150,000, Dyer calls and Paasonen folds. The turn is the . Lylloff checks and Dyer checks. The river is the . Lylloff bets 140,000 and Dyer calls. Dyer shows Q-T for two pair while Lylloff shows K-K. Dyer takes the pot.
Hand #21: Greg Dyer opens the pot for 60,000, Mika Paasonen calls, and Mark Teltscher calls from the small blind. The flop is K-3-2. Teltscher checks, Dyer bets 150,000, Paasonen folds, and Teltscher folds 8-8 face up. Dyer takes the pot.
They say that internet players are loose and fast and perhaps thats a reflection of the rapid pace of play during the first twenty hands. With four eliminations (in the first 18 hands), half of the final table has been wiped out.
The real battle begins. Mark Teltscher can smell another EPT championship on the horizon. He has a lot of work ahead of him and must catch up to the chipleader, Greg Dyer, while fending off Mika Paasonen who has been gaining momentum ever since the final table began.
Hand #29: Sander Lylloff raises to 60,000 from the small blind, Greg Dyer moves all in from the big blind for almost 500,000, and Lylloff calls. Lylloff shows the while Dyer turns up the . The flop is , the turn is the , the river is the , and Lylloff doubles through Dyer.
Dyer slipped to 1.6 million while Lylloff passed the 1 million mark for the first time at the final table.
Hand #30: Mika Paasonen raises to 54,000 and Mark Teltscher calls. The flop is K-8-4. Paasonen checks, Teltscher bets 65,000, Paasonen raises to 265,000 and Teltscher calls 200,000 more. The turn is the . Paasonen checks, Teltscher bets 300,000, Paasonen moves all in and Teltscher calls. Paasonen turns up the while Teltscher shows the . Paasonen needs a jack or a spade to win. The river is the and Teltscher doubles up at Paasonen's expense.
Teltscher took over the chiplead with over 2.5 million, while Paasonen slipped to under 60,000.
The action slowed down until Sander Lylloff doubled up against Greg Dyer. Mika Paasonen took over the chiplead on Hand #29, but then lost it on the next to Mark Teltscher, when Teltscher doubled up against him. Mika Paasonen is on life support.