Anyhow, the point was mainly that Hansen, having bet 2,200 on a
flop and been called, checked the
turn and found a bet of 3,200 back at him. Now started a whirl of own-stack reorganisation, spreading, stacking by colour, stacking in two or three piles, removing the big denom chips and putting them back - this went on for several minutes. It was sort of hypnotic; all eyes on the table were on his hands as he fiddled with his short stack like someone doing the Three Card Monty.Finally he called. On the
river he checked again, and now it was his opponent's turn to join the dexterity ballet, threading and rethreading his green chips for a couple of minutes back at him. Then he bet 5k and Hansen instapassed. Odd.


flop, Roberts' continuation bet of 2,500 was flat calling, leading to a change of tactics on the
turn where Roberts opted to check. His opponent bet 3,330, which Roberts called, but the wily Brit ultimately gave up on the
river in the face of a 
, but was looked up by Julian Thew's 
in the big blind. Thew's ace high held up leaving him with 15,000, whilst Mizzi was left with a walk to the rail.
flop, and got a fairly brisk call. No bet from either player on the
turn, but Jorgensen bet out a hefty 12,500 on the
river which eventually got a call-muck combination when he turned over his
, 2,200 on a
flop, and 6,800 on a
turn. Both players checked the
river and Phillips' Jacks were good - Sahamies held
for a worse-kickered pair which had picked up a flush draw on the turn which failed to materialise.
flop, Hansen check-called 1,700, before check-raising Mattern's bet of 4,800 on the
turn to 25,000, thus putting the Frenchman all in. Mattern called with
for the flush, whilst Hansen was drawing dead with a paltry
.