Dehlia de Jong walked up to the media row with a sad look on her face, followed by her brother with a comparable sad face. Down and out, so much was clear, and De Jong filled us in on the details of her bust out shortly after.
She was down to about 25,000 when she got it in before the flop with against . Her opponent hit an ace and send De Jong packing.
"I'm gonna go outside to kick something" she said with a wry smile. We'll surely see more of De Jong in the future, just not in this Unibet Open Malta main event unfortunately.
Unibet Open regular Jorma Vuoksenmaa just doubled up through his neighbor Jeroen Buls. Vuoksenmaa got it in before the flop with and was already getting up to make his exit after Buls showed .
The flop came and Vuoksenmaa sat back down again. The on the turn and on the river made things official, and he doubled his 16,900 stack. Buls still has well over 40,000 left.
Action folded to Rafal Zgadzaj on the button and he opened. Dara o'Kearney over in the small blind pushed all in for his last 6 big blinds. The big blind folded, Zgadzaj made the call.
Things weren't looking too good for O'Kearney as his was up against . The flop only made things worse for the Irishman, and the on the turn and on the river made things official. O'Keanrey out, Zgadzaj up to 120,000.
Kristof Segers was the one opening and the small blind three-bet. Big blind Jerry de Vries cold four bet jammed for about 30,000 and Segers over shoved. The small blind folded.
Segers had the while De Vries tabled . The board ran out .
De Vries wasn't overly sad, telling us he had already gotten lucky beating with his just before.
Arne Coulier called us over to inform us on his double up. Coulier, with a 21,000 stack at the time, opened for 2,600. Action folded to the big blind who pushed all in. Coulier called with and had to take it up against . The board ran out and Coulier doubled up.
"I feel like the luckiest guy in the world!" Coulier said.
"If I wasn't already," he added as we were walking away.
Under the gun Tuukka Meklin raised to 3,100 and the hijack called before Dalil Massaud shoved from the cutoff for about 17,000. Meklin reshoved and the hijack folded.
Tuukka Meklin:
Dalil Massaud:
The flop came , giving Meklin a flush draw. Meklin had Massaud drawing dead on the turn, the on the river was there just to make things official.
. Her opponent hit an ace and send De Jong packing.
and was already getting up to make his exit after Buls showed 
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and Vuoksenmaa sat back down again. The 
on the turn and 
on the river made things official, and he doubled his 16,900 stack. Buls still has well over 40,000 left.
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flop only made things worse for the Irishman, and the 
on the turn and 
on the river made things official. O'Keanrey out, Zgadzaj up to 120,000.
while De Vries tabled 
just before.
and had to take it up against 
. The board ran out 
, giving Meklin a flush draw. Meklin had Massaud drawing dead on the 
turn, the