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.
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.
Rasmus Tarbensen opened the hijack for 3,500 and his neighbor Bram Haenraets in the cutoff shoved all in for about 23,000. Right next to him sat Daniel Thaller on the button and he shoved all in over the top. Both blinds and Tarbensen released and it was time for the two of them to open their hand.
Daniel Thaller:
Bram Haenraets:
The flop came , giving Thaller a gutshot on top of his two live over cards. The on the turn made Haenraets root for just the two queens, but neither showed up as the completed the board.
We received word that Sen Henderson had been eliminated. It turned out a player raised to 3,500 and big blind Henderson shoved for 20,000. Henderson's opponent made the call holding off suit, and flopped a queen to send Henderson to the rail.
Yesterday Sam Grafton played in the e-Sports Battle Royale, and we had some friendly banter with him during the action about his lack of results in his format, and some advice for beginning players on how to enjoy the game.
Down to the last level of the day, players are busting left and right. One of them was Alex Hendriks, who came over to Peter Harkes to see how he was doing.
Hendriks told us and Harkes that he had gotten it in before the flop with . His 11 big blind push was called by an opponent with and no nines or other escape cards were found. Hendriks out, the tournament is down to 54 players.
Former Unibet Open winner Peter Harkes has doubled up. He was down to 22,000 and squeezed all in from the small blind holding . The initial raiser called with and received no help. Up to 52,600 now for Harkes.