Gisle Arnason Olsen, a PokerStars qualifier from Denmark, just eliminated a short stack to get a stack over 100k.
All in preflop Olsen had 
and his opponent a punchers chance with his 
.
The board ran out 
with a devastating blow on the flop to send his opponent crashing to the canvas.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
115,000 |
Naoufel Bennani-Smires is one of the big stack sin the room, if not the chip leader, with around 200,000.
Maybe it runs in the family as the Moroccan is the son of Karim Bennani Smires who finished in 8th place in EPT6 in London 2009 for £50,100 his best ever cash.
Can Naofel top that this week?
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
200,000 |
Level: 11
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
The flop was 
and Fabrizio Privitera in the cut-off checked to Paul Brampton on the button who bet 6,000.
Privitera check-raised all in for a similar stack size and Brampton was put in the torture tanks as Privitera sat awaiting his decision. A few minutes passed before Brampton called
Privitera showed 
while Brampton had 
.
The turn was the 
and the river the 
.
Brampton was left with 1,000 but that went in the next hand.
Robert Heidorn, the Danish qualifier had just folded to a bet from Gisle Arnason Olsen from Germany.
“Every time you raise me and now I’m sick of it and a little tilted.” Heiborn said with feeling in his voice.
“Everytime?” Olsen questioned in a puzzled tone with a little smile playing across his lips while he stacked the Dane’s chips.
A friendly rivalry developing between these two perhaps?
Level: 12
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
Valentin Frunze, a PokerStars qualifier from Moldova, has had his run come to an end in the last level of the day.
Frunze was all in with 
and had been called by Alexander Burkart with 
.
The board ran out 
and he headed for the exit.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
160,000 | |
|
Busted |
Keyur Patel was all in preflop as was Marcus Daley and they were called by another big stack.
Patel had and Daley 
which was behind the big stacks .
The board ran out 
and Patel got his triple up with 20 minutes left on the clock.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
110,000 |
The tournament director announced they will play five more hands before the close of play.
All tables have bagged up their chips and below you can find assorted chip counts. A recap of today's action as well as the full chip counts will be available soon.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
199,100
199,100
|
199,100 |
|
|
199,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
|
194,700 | |
|
|
192,400
192,400
|
192,400 |
|
176,700
176,700
|
176,700 |
|
175,000
145,000
|
145,000 |
|
|
167,500
7,500
|
7,500 |
|
166,800
18,800
|
18,800 |
|
160,700 | |
|
149,100 | |
|
147,500
147,500
|
147,500 |
|
146,200 | |
|
144,200 | |
|
135,700
108,200
|
108,200 |
|
||
|
|
133,500 | |
|
130,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
|
116,700 | |
|
|
110,000 | |
|
108,500
108,500
|
108,500 |
|
||
|
98,200
28,200
|
28,200 |
|
|
97,500 | |
|
97,200
12,800
|
12,800 |
|
94,600 | |
|
|
92,100
28,100
|
28,100 |
|
91,600
6,600
|
6,600 |
