The cutoff seat raised to 450 and Lex Veldhuis called from the button. The flop came down . The preflop raiser continued into Lex with a bet of 750. Veldhuis made the call.
The turn brought the and Veldhuis called a bet of 1,900 from his opponent.
After the river came the , both players checked. The first player showed , but Veldhuis held a slightly better hand with and scooped the pot.
One player at the table commented on Lex's hot run to kick off his tournament by saying, "Can I move tables please?!?!" Lex has over 100,000 chips.
French London-based pro and trilby hat enthusiast Nicolas Levi claims he is seated at "the sickest table ever" with Davidi Kitai and Juan Manuel Pastor. We pointed out the Veldhuis/Negreanu/Eastgate table. "Second sickest table ever."
Currently he is taking it easy as far as actually playing goes -- he's on a respectable but not dazzling 31,000. Instead, he is amusing himself trying to take photos of his fellow countryman ElkY from such an angle that it looks as though he is wearing Boris Becker's hair. Please apply direct to Mr. Levi for those images.
Vanessa Rousso limped for 150 and Uffe Holm raised to 600 behind him. Mark 'Randall' Flowers reraised to 1,775 from late position, Rousso called but then Holm made it 4,300.
Flowers now made it 7,775, Rousso folded and Holm just pushed the rest of his yellow (5k) and red (1k) chips into the middle. Flowers moved in too and it was inevitable what they had...
Uffe Holm:
Mark Flowers:
The board was , Flowers was covered by Holm and was eliminated.
Like a hobbit who has lost his ring, Dario Minieri is looking dreadfully unhappy.
Just now he was faced with a Q-J high board -- and when a second queen came on the river, he folded pocket kings face up. To his endless woe, his opponent showed him .
Not long after, he became involved in a hand with Ruben Visser. We caught up with the action on the river of the board, when Minieri, possibly still steaming from laying down his kings, bet out 5,100. Visser smoothly moved his remaining 17,725 stack across the line -- and Minieri folded.
The board read and Robert MIzrachi was facing a bet of 1,200 from an opponent after he checked. Mizrachi put in a check-raise to 2,600 and the player called.
After the river fell the , Mizrachi bet out 4,100. His opponent folded, giving Mizrachi the pot and moving him up to around 36,000 chips.