After taking a beat a short while ago Costas Artemi was into push mode and that's exactly what he did from early position. The chip leader, Adam Junglen, was sitting in the big blind and made the call after hearing it was 69,000 more for him to call.
Artemi tabled and was in good shape against Junglen's .
No-one seems to believe Jesper Hougaard when he raises any more.
This time he made it 20,000 to go from the button, and was swiftly called by Daniel Nutt in the big blind. They both tentatively checked the flop. The turn came down the and Nutt checked it again. Hougaard now bet 23,000, but Nutt made it a huge 93,000. Hougaard dwelled for a while, his decision probably not made any easier by the railers above his head cheering wildly for Costas Artemi on the other table. At last he folded, to screams of, "Come on Danny, boy, hey hey! Gwaaaan!" from the increasingly inebriated fans in the upstairs bar.
Costas Artemi raised to 30,000 from the button, Fuad Serhan moved all in from the button and Artemi made the call. Serhan flipped up , and a disgusted Artemi slapped his dominated on the table.
The board, though ran out .
"Aces and kings with a ten" said their tablemate Adam Junglen, relieving Artemi who thought he was out. Instead, they chopped the pot.
Costas Artemi limped in from UTG, Fuad Serhan limped from the cutoff, Christoph Bommes completed the small blind and Ian Woodley checked from the big. The flop came down . The action was checked to Artemi, who bet 20,000. Serhan min-raised to 40,000, eliciting an all-in shove from Bommes. Both Artemi and Serhan gave up their hands, Bommes revealing in the hole for top two pair.
Jesper Hougaard once again made it 20,000 from the cutoff, and this time big blind Joseph El-Shater pushed all in for 101,000 total. At this point there was a brief pause in the action, as one of the balcony railers managed to lose his grip on his drink and it came crashing down onto the casino floor below, narrowly missing the players on Table One. Perhaps shaken by his fellow players' near-death experience, Hougaard passed.
Adam Junglen has the runaway chip lead with 681,000 at the break. Here's how the whole field stacks up at present:
Adam Junglen 681,000
John Dwyer 245,000
Christoph Bommes 220,000
Daniel Nutt 215,000
Jesper Hougaard 185,000
Ian Woodley 177,000
Joseph El-Shater 130,000
Linda Lee 127,000
Neil Channing 126,000
Yevgeniy Timoshenko 125,000
Fuad Serhan 109,000
Costas Artemi 105,000