Raymond Walter bet out on third and fourth streets and Sorel Mizzi called; on fifth street, with a pair of jacks up, Mizzi led the betting and Walter just called. On sixth Walter was again first to act with a pair of aces now showing, and Mizzi called; on seventh street Walter bet out again, actually before he'd looked at his last card, and once more Mizzi made the call.
The very confident Walter turned over two pair, aces and eights, to put him up to 88,000. Mizzi mucked and dropped to 40,000.
A fair few chips had found their way into the pot by fourth street, when Jon Turner bet out. Philip Collins made the call. However, when Turner bet again on sixth, Collins just folded, flashing at Turner.
Peter Klaus-Stohner and Richard Ashby have tangled in a pot with Ashby leading the betting on fourth and fifth streets, before check-calling on both sixth and seventh.
Ashby: (XXX) /
Klaus-Stohner: () /
Spades everywhere for Klaus-Stohner as Ashby's cards hit the muck. He's still amongst the leaders with 98,000 as Klaus-Stohner climbs to 57,000.
Pat Pezzin is up to 95,000 chips after eliminating Jean Gaspard in a big three-way pot that also included Chip Jett.
Catching the action on fifth street, Jett led out with a bet showing the best hand before Gaspard raised all in. Pezzin cold-called and Jett came along. The two live players checked sixth before Pezzin bet on seventh to force a fold from Jett.
Jett: (XXX) /
Gaspard: () /
Pezzin: () /
Gaspard showed a set of nines but Pezzin had made an ace-high flush on the river to take it down and eliminate Gaspard from the tournament.
Erich Kollmann bet out on fifth street, as you do when you've got a pair of kings showing. Alex Kravchenko made the call.
On sixth street Kollmann checked and then called a bet from Kravchenko. They both checked seventh street before Kravchenko revealed a rolled-up set of sixes, eliciting a swift muck from Kollmann.
We found David Blatte betting out on fifth street. Alex Kravchenko dwelled up for a while and then made the call.
Blatte bet out again on sixth street, and this time Kravchenko called rather more quickly.
On seventh, though, Blatte just checked. Kravchenko thought about it for a while before checking behind, and then mucked to Blatte's mere pair of nines.
Worse than that - Flaminio Malaguti has become our first post-prandial bustee. It happened so fast we didn't even catch the hand, but whatever happened, Mr. Malaguti will not be making the money in this tournament.
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