After an early position raise to 3,000. Werner Nather elected to just call with in middle position. It paid off for Nather: the button moved in for 12,000 and the initial raiser reshoved all in for 70,000.
Nather snap-called and was up against the button's and the initial raiser's . The board ran out , which gave the button a triple up with the main pot. Nather took down the massive side pot to jump up the leaderboard.
Spain is doing well in the Main Event so far. Yesterday, it was Francisco Arce who claimed the overall chip lead, today it's Ignacio Molina who's one of the players jockeying for pole position. Molina is currently up to 150,000.
Pietro Errante Parrino was preflop all in for his tournament life. Holding , the Italian was up against and . The board ran out to keep Errante Parrino's hand in front.
"Triple up! Triple up!" cheered the jovial Italian.
In a battle of the Scandinavians, Johnny Hansen raised to 1,700 from under the gun and Sofia Lovgren called from the small blind. The flop came and Lovgren check-called a 2,100 bet from the Dane.
On the turn, Lovgren checked, Hansen bet 3,500 and Lovgren called again.
The on the river certainly wasn't a blank, and Lovgren open-shoved all in without hesitation. It was effectively 28,000 to Hansen, who quickly flung his face-up in the muck.
The remaining 267 players are on their final fifteen minute break of the day. Three more levels of 45 minutes will be played until the chips get bagged.