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Perhaps Alioto's losing streak is contagious, as Mark Teltscher to his immediate left has just taken a massive hit courtesy of Torstein Iversen. In an enormous pot, Teltscher tanked up for a good long while before finally calling off 2,100 on the river of an board and immediately regretted it as Iversen, with just the barest hint of smugness, turned over . Teltscher mucked and cradled his remaining 3,200 in his hand, while Iversen found his stack increased to around 20,000.
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After an uneventful start, Frenchman Guillaume de la Gorce is now starting to pick up pace with 8,500 in chips. De la Gorce recently eliminated a short-stack with pocket nines versus pocket queens on a flop and is in a seemingly confident mood.
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Poker veteran Jeff Duvall has been eliminated from today's event. He found himself all in with versus John Kabbaj's , but the latter made a flush.
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Tournament director Steve Frezer is getting it in the neck from a hyper Layne Flack who is currently suffering from massagitis. "Where have all the masseuses gone?" asked Flack. "We could get Snoopy to step in if you want," suggested Frezer.
Flack's silence spoke volumes, but I've forgotten my baby oil anyhow.
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Andrew Teng is a goner. He woke up with , but his neighbor found . No lady on a board means Teng will be thickening the wallet of the barman over the next few days rather than his own.
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Roland de Wolfe
Moving to my domain in the eaves of the casino with under 3,000, which slowly became 1,800, Roland de Wolfe got the rest in the middle on what at first seemed to be a promising flop: . He held for what looked like a monster draw, but which actually had just two outs remaining to keep him in the tournament... that's right, his opponent had flopped a full house with which stayed good and took the Full Tilt sponsored pro's final chips.
"At least I can't say I did anything wrong," said Roland as a parting shot, adding as he left with a smile, "Maybe getting out of bed." A railer immediately asked him, "Do you want to go drinking now?"
"No."
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A spot of luck for Dino Brivati now. Torstein Iversen made a standard raise from the button preflop and was called by both Brivati in the small blind and Dimps Maker in the big blind. Both checked the flop and Iversen bet just 300. Brivati instantly made it 1,200, and Iversen just as quickly reraised to cover Brivati. He called and was in a spot of bother with up against Iversen's . Already standing up to leave on the turn, he was promptly urged to sit back down again as the hit the felt on the river to split the pot.
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I didn't catch the action (I did inquire with Peter Singleton, but after passing pocket jacks he was understandably unaccommodating), but all the money went in preflop with Simon La Thangue holding against his opponent's .
Thankful to be coin-flipping, a ten on a board gave La Thangue both the pot and yet another scalp. He now has more chips than Harry Ramsden's and is your possible chip leader with just under 25,000.
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Merd!
Dismay for EPT Prague winner Arnuad Mattern now as he encounters a deck colder than a mother-in-law's kiss. Triumphant victor Priyan de Mel was more than happy to fill in the details. "He raised it up to 600 preflop, I found aces in the blind and reraised to 1,700, he put in 3,000 more, I pushed and he called. He had kings but didn't hit."
"He outplayed me," added Mattern. "Well, that goes without saying," I replied, before quickly running away.
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Excellent headgear
We are down one awesome hat as Chris Ferguson gets his chips in preflop with against Karsten Johansen's . Ferguson makes a magnanimous sort of gesture with his hand as he hits the turn on the board, and then chuckles equally magnanimously as Johansen hits the river and he makes his well-dressed exit.
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board and immediately regretted it as Iversen, with just the barest hint of smugness, turned over 
. Teltscher mucked and cradled his remaining 3,200 in his hand, while Iversen found his stack increased to around 20,000.
flop and is in a seemingly confident mood.
versus John Kabbaj's 
, but the latter made a flush.
, but his neighbor found 
board means Teng will be thickening the wallet of the barman over the next few days rather than his own.
. He held 
which stayed good and took the Full Tilt sponsored pro's final chips.
flop and Iversen bet just 300. Brivati instantly made it 1,200, and Iversen just as quickly reraised to cover Brivati. He called and was in a spot of bother with 
up against Iversen's 
. Already standing up to leave on the 
against Karsten Johansen's 
. Ferguson makes a magnanimous sort of gesture with his hand as he hits the turn on the 
