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Well, he just eliminated Hoyt Corkins, all in preflop with 
vs. Kimber's 
- the board coming 
- which has led to a rather gap-filled table now being broken and distributed around the room. An even 45 players now remain - still quite a lot of fighting distance between now and the money at two tables.
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Barry Greenstein has taken some chips off Roberto Romanello after his straight held up when the board paired on the river. The turn was out and the board read 
and Greenstein led for 3,000 from the BB. Romanello called quickly to see the river. Greenstein checked quickly and so did the Welshman. Greenstein tabled 
for a straight that was good as Romanello mucked.
A Dan Shak limp from UTG brought almost every other player in to see a 
flop. The action checked to Alsfonso Amendola who bet pot (5,600) and was only called by Oskar Lind in the BB after some thought. The board paired with the 
on the turn and that scared both players to checking at this juncture as well as the 
river. The Italian tabled 
but lost out to Lind's 
.
John Kabbaj was in no mood to be pushed around by fellow Brit Richard Gryko and managed to out punch him. Kabbaj raised to 2,200 from early position to face a raise to 5,700 from Gryko in the next seat. His response was to add another 12,000 on top of this raise. Call. The flop came 
and Kabbaj instantly pushed and Gryko instantly folded.
Ah Omaha, an unpredictable flop-reliant sort of game where to regard a hand like 
as a comedic mismatch of the best and worst hold'em hands would be to misunderstand the way it works on a fairly fundamental level. Nevertheless it did look a bit funny in Robin Keston's hand as he took down a pot from Rory Matthews, having raised under the gun and picked up only Matthews as a caller. He also called Keston's 4,500 bet on the 
flop, but there was no further betting from either party as the turn and river fell . Keston showed his Aces which took the pot.
Two hands later and an out-of-position Yasuhiro Waki had the 
, with which he just check-called Erik Friberg, the final chips being bet on the turn with the board 
. After firing this 8,500, Friberg declined to follow it up on the 
river and this was the very point at which the had come into its own, if the Aces hadn't previously been in front.
It looked as though it had all been limped preflop; either way five players made it to see an flop.
It checked around to Lieven Ketels who bet 4,000. It folded all the way around to Chad Brown who called, and they proceeded to the turn heads up.
Brown checked the turn and Ketels bet 8,000, leaving himself just 2,200 back. Brown tanked up for a while and then flat-called.They both checked the turn, and Brown turned over 
for a flush draw that had turned into two pair. Ketels reveled for a worse two pair, and Brown moved on up to 50,000.
Level: 10
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 0
We found Robin Keston betting out a pot-sized 19,200 on the turn of the 
board. Felipe Ramos, who on 21,000 had only little more than that left to his name, tanked up for several minutes. Eventually he folded and snuck just the tiniest resentful look at Keston, who was up to 55,000 after that.
Having dwindled to under 20k, it looked like with the level rising Roberto Romanello was going to go all-out for a shot at a stack which could propel him into the money and beyond. All in twice in the last ten minutes (the first being a small blind shove on a 
flop after Chris Bjorin called his preflop threebet on the button), he proceeded to tackle Bjorin again with far less good fortune.
A flop of understandably piqued his interest, as Romanello held for all sorts of straight and flush possibilities, but Bjorin's had hit top set which held to send Romanello to the rail with a, "Good game," all round.
