Achim Grimm
Achim Grimm has been eliminated. I didn't catch his exit hand, but I do recall him telling me about a dramatic hand from earlier on. According to the horse's mouth, he was all in at one point with pocket tens versus nines, the flop bringing a nine, but justice prevailing with a straight by the river. This put him back up to 13,500, but sadly, he was unable to continue that upward motion and will probably be looking for the nearest bar.
As I neared table three, I noticed Georgi Gochev all in and clasping onto his cards as if they were gold dust. Meanwhile, Kenny Hallaert and Trevor Neufeld were busy creating a side pot, Neufeld leading the way with a bet of 6,000 into a flop of .
Neufeld hesitated momentarily, as if contemplating a call, before surprising everyone and moving all in. A befuddled Hallaert dropped his head into his hands.
As Neufeld remained statuesque under pressure, Hallaert counted out the necessary chips and hovered them around the line, torturing himself in the process. After a good couple of minutes of teasing, he eventually announced that he could be making a bad call, and pushed the chips over the line.
"Good call," complimented Neufeld as he revealed . Hallaert flipped over . But it was the short stack who had the goods, Gochev was surprised as anyone to see his ahead of both opponents.
As the turn was dealt, there were a few slight gasps, some perhaps even enjoying the mere threat of a cruel bad beat. But, in the end, that threat became a reality when a gut-wrenching hit the felt, and those slight gasps soon turned into a chorus of wows and winces.
As Gochev left the table, a stunned Hallaert returned to his now 8,500 stack, his head still shaking from the defeat.
Daniel Studer: 8,150
Richard Pols: 16,000
Anders Willemoes Larsen: 20,000
Gabor Szollosy: 7150
Dennis Uhrenholt: 12,900
Mikael Johansson: 58,000
Ronni Borg: 16,000
Michael Pesek: 17,000
Markus Golser: 10,625
Mark Schouten, victor of yesterday's €300 PLO event, raised it up from the button and then called the 11,000 push from Stephan Kernig in the big blind. Bit of a cooler:
Schouten:
Kernig:
The flop looked like the hand might be a bigger cooler than anyone thought:
Flop:
But a harmless on the turn and on the river doubled Kernig up to 22,000.
Anders Willemoes Larsen raised to 1,600 but Michael Pesek moved all in from the small blind, a total of 12,000. Larsen thought about it, but eventually passed.