After an open to 3,300 before him, Hugues Mazouaud moved all in for 12,200. Cristian Flores on the button asked for the bet to be clarified and then appeared to make his decision in a rather unusual manner.
Flores set a clockwork plastic toy tiger on his phone on the table and then watched it do several backflips. Nobody at the table said a word. Seemingly satisfied with the message he received, Flores made the call. The original raiser folded and the cards were on their backs.
Mazouaud had and Flores . The cards ran out and Mazouaud was eliminated on the whim of a toy.
Raphael Wieczorek lost about half his stack early today, then came a hand in which moved all in for about 20,000 from early position. Thomas Muehloecker had only arrived on the table recently and reshoved to scare off all players behind them.
Wieczorek held while the Austrian held , and after the board Wieczorek was out.
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Soi Nguyen three-bet shoved with and Viktor Skoldstedt as initial raiser made the call with . A deuce in the window gave the Swede a set and Nguyen was unable to improve on turn and river.
"It was a good Swedish call," Skoldstedt said with a grin on the face.
Loni Harwood has just knocked out an opponent for what looked like 25,000 chips. It was the for the opponent and for Harwood. The flop gave her a set, the turn and the river completed the board.
While the opponent departed, Harwood said "sorry but I can't fold there", so we can assume that the chips went in preflop.
Sunny Chattha was involved in a battle of the blinds and raised the flop from 3,000 to 9,100. The player in the small blind reluctantly tossed in the extra chips and then folded on the turn when the Brit made it 15,300 to go.
Toth Redmond raised to 2,500 and then called all in when Justin Schwartz two seats over moved all in. Schwartz had his opponent covered with more than 40,000 in chips and he also held the dominating hand with versus Redmond's , with Redmond drawing dead after the turn of a board.
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