Ilkka Koskinen has been removed from today's event courtesy of Xavier Laszcz. Koskinen was all in with versus a dominating , and although the flop and turn teased a double up, the river allowed justice to prevail and gave the Frenchman the pot.
Enough chips to give her some lee-way.
With the board reading , Ian Woodley raises all in and Linda Lee makes the call showing which is behind to Woodley's . The turn is the giving Lee a lot of extra outs, but the river is the and Woodley wins a pot worth about 70,000.
'Scrabbleman' Xavier Laszcz is causing controversy, not at the table, but in the press room where he has triggered a conflict of views between various (well, two) members of the PokerNews team.
Whilst discussing the potential of Xavier Lasxcz being poker's highest scoring Scrabble player with a quite splendid 42 points (strictly no middle names allowed), it was duly brought to our attention that there was only one zed in Scrabble. It was then unearthed that one could be playing the Super Scrabble version of the game, which does indeed allow two zeds to hit the board simultaneously.
As such, we are currently in a quandary and unsure as to whether it would be morally correct to award him the esteemed title of Scrabbleman.
James Akenhead is eliminated by chip monster Jesper Hougaard. Akenhead raised preflop, called by Hougaard.
Flop: Check to Hougaard who bet 10,000. Back to Akenhead who instantly moved all in for around 30,000 - and was just as instantly called. Shaking his head (that can never be a good sign) they turned their hands over:
Akenhead:
Hougaard:
The turn and river didn't help and Akenhead exited stage right, yanking an iPod earphone out, having fallen into Hougaard's trap.
Linda Lee - Stai Out of the Way of my Aces
Linda Lee eliminated young Oystein Stai, picking up just when he found . A Queen-high board came crushing his hopes of advancing further, but advancing her stack to the dizzy height of 110,000
Terminated
In what was a button (Fuad Serhan) versus big blind (David La Ronde) encounter, La Ronde made a brave call for his tournament life with on a flop, but was in boiling hot water as Serhan revealed . A turn and river confirmed La Ronde's demise.
Moving in preflop, short-stacked Darren Fuller was quickly called by small blind Yevgeniy Timoshenko. It was vs. Timoshenko's - and the flop looked pretty decisive: . The gave him a little hope, and then the river took it away.
Limping into the money.
Surinder Sunar was quickly knocked out for his last few chips having made it past the bubble. His remaining chips going in with but failing to hit against Arkadi Kilman's .
Demis Hassabis, however, has been much more fortunate. Making a button push with , he was quickly called by Matt Novak's but won out on a board to put him back over 20,000.
William Martin's stack has increased two fold. His kings versus queens triumphed on a clinical king high board to see him catapult up to the 60,000 mark.