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Sandor Demjan
With Praz Bansi raising it up preflop from early position and Sandor Demjan defending his big blind, the two players saw a flop. More checks than Prague as both tapped the table for a turn and river where Sandor suddenly announced all-in. "Can you can count it?" asked Bansi with his eyebrows raised, but before the chips had barely been collated, Bansi made the call and quickly tabled . Demjan had .
"Good luck," Demjan said stoically and in an accent befitting that of a Bond villain.
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As I was writing out Sandor Demjan's exit, another all-in was unfolding on Centre Court:
Flop:
Markus Ristola =
Thomas Bichon =
For the purpose of entertainment, the devil on my shoulder was requesting running tens, but although I was half right, the turn and river were ultimately anti-climatic and Ristola took the pot.
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Upstairs in the Secret Room, things have quietened down a little.
One gent who's feeling cheery about things though is Praz Bansi. Not long after knocking our Sandor Demjan, he took a small chunk out of Antoine Saout as well. Saout raised to 32,000 and to his immediate left, Bansi made it 95,000 to go. Everyone else folded, and after some long minutes of dwelling from Saout, who we actually feared may have fallen asleep at points during that time -- anyway, eventually Saout folded too, and Bansi was up to 720,000 while the sleepy Frenchman dropped to around 250,000.
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If only those were cash chips
We cannot possibly comment on whether this is due to him having wanged all his money already or whether he's just a good old-fashioned cheapskate -- but either way, now that he's well into the money, we can reveal that Jason Mercier, upon deciding to come to London to play the WSOPE, decided that London hotels were just too expensive and instead is spending these few weeks sleeping on a buddy's couch. Just thought we should say.
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There's a bit of a discrepancy between chips on tables here, with the Secret Table very definitely the more chipped up of the two.
Secret Table currently has 5.6 million chips on it of a total 10 million with eight runners to fight over it; Obvious Table (Centre Court) has 4.4 million between nine players, including all three of our shortest stacks, Tony Cousineau (128,000), Doyle Brunson (174,000) and Ram Vaswani (269,000).
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On the turn of a board, Praz Bansi bet 45,000 and Saar Wilf called. Bansi then fired 125,000 on the river, which was enough to take the pot.
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Tony Cousineau's like limescale: you just can't get rid of him. So was the case just now as he found himself all in for just over 100,000 with versus James Akenhead's . The board was pretty clinical coming to award Cousineau the pot.
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Like Ross and Rachel from Friends, we're now on a break, although a shorter one. This one will be 90 minutes and we'll definitely be getting back together.
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The man, the legend, the 17th place finisher
Back we come from dinner, and no sooner than our remaining 17 were seated back at the felt, than we saw action.
On Table Centre Court, Daniel Negreanu raised, and the action folded gently over to Doyle Brunson on the button, who moved all in. Over to James Akenhead in the small blind -- who reshoved. Negreanu got out of the line of fire, and they turned their cards over.
Brunson:
Akenhead:
Flop: putting Brunson in the lead
Turn: putting Akenhead back in the lead
Mr. Brunson's assistant, who seemed to be under the impression that Doyle was holding the , cheered and called out for no nine or queen.
River:
To a standing ovation from the crowd, Brunson is bust.
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flop. More checks than Prague as both tapped the table for a 
turn and 
river where Sandor suddenly announced all-in. "Can you can count it?" asked Bansi with his eyebrows raised, but before the chips had barely been collated, Bansi made the call and quickly tabled 
. Demjan had 
.
turn and 
board, Praz Bansi bet 45,000 and Saar Wilf called. Bansi then fired 125,000 on the 
. The board was pretty clinical coming 
to award Cousineau the pot.
putting Brunson in the lead