Nicholas Van der Marel raised to a very small 475 in early position and got himself called by Wilfried Brunelle in the cutoff.
A flop:
Van der Marel bet 525, and again Brunelle called.
A turn:
Not giving up just yet, Van der Marel bet another 1,100; once more, Brunelle called.
The river:
Van der Marel paused, riffling chips, before checking. An expressionless Brunelle bet 3,000, and after another moment's thought Van der Marel gave it up. He's still a big stack, though, with around 32,000.
Franciscus Dekkers
It looked as though Franciscus Dekkers had raised it up from the cut-off and been called by Vladislav Bakalov in the small blind. Either way, the two players reached the turn of a board where Bakalov's leading bet of 1,400 was raised to 3,400 by Dekkers. Bakalov called.
On the river, Bakalov checked, and Dekkers moved all in for 6,275.
As Bakalov procrastinated, I couldn't help but notice their opposing postures, Dekkers upright with his arms folded whilst Bakalov sat sideways in his chair, his hand riffling through his chips as if he didn't have a care in the world.
Well, he does now, because after asking for a count of the pot (10,400 - although I was under the impression the chips could only be spread), Bakalov made the call, only to be shown a triumphant .
Johan Percivall
Johan Percivall has just doubled up with versus the of Wolfgang van Breukelen. I didn't see when the chips went in, but the board read .
Percivall now has 35,000, while Breukelen has dropped down to 11,000.
Boeken's blue
A massive three-way all in confrontation has deprived us of the company of both Noah Boeken and Wojciech Kaminski for the rest of the tournament, and has propelled Runnar Lindepuu up into the rarefied cool air of the big stacks.
The details of who got their chips in first are hazy, but come the turn all three were on their backs like so:
Board:
Kaminski:
Boeken:
Lindepuu:
River: a largely irrelevant
Boeken left pretty much as soon as he'd seen Lindepuu's hand, but Kaminski sat there for a while until the TD asked him to leave so a new player could sit in his seat.