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Let the speculation regarding the contents of Eric Qu's hand begin. He was in the big blind and called a raise to 160,000 by Chris Rossiter, then check-called 180,000 more on the flop and 380,000 more on the turn. By the river, the board showed . Qu quickly jammed his last 930,000 chips into the middle and stood up from the table. With his arms crossed in front of his chest, he waited about a minute for Rossiter to fold.
"Pass?" Qu asked. He then nodded and made a satisfied noise as if to say, "Of course you pass."
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Let's get Phy-si-oc, Phy-si-oc...
Over on the feature table, we have an all in and a call.
The at risk player is young American and prodigious 2+2 poster Grayson Physioc, who has for much of today been winning the popularity contest in the main event in terms of number and volume of railers. The caller, Matt Woodward.
Physioc:
Woodward:
"Seven!" shouts one of the fan club.
Flop:
"Oohs" and "Ohs" from the rail.
Turn:
"Grayson needs a spade to chop it," announces man-in-a-suit Neil. "Or a queen!" cries the Physioc Massive.
River:
Weird silence for a bit, until Neil encourages a round of applause for the now-busted Physioc.
Just before he ran off to dinner on the beach, Dag Martin Mikkelsen took a few minutes to chat with Glo about his run from little stack to big stack today, and the competition he's been facing here at the EPT:
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Steven Silverman - 12th Place
Another all-in confrontation leads to another bust. Steven Silverman opened the preflop action with a raise. Action moved to Daniel Zink. Zink, his long red hair flopping over his face, as he squeezed his cards and then moved enough chips into the middle to cover Silverman. Silverman called with ; he was dominated by Zink's .
With the board neatly arrayed for the television cameras, the flop came down , giving Silverman some extra outs to a chop. He picked up a couple more outs for the chop and for the win with the turn. Yet the river blanked safely for Zink, sending Silverman to the rail in 12th place.
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Marc Naalden has dropped a few more chips, this time to Mikhail Tulchinskiy.
Naalden raised to 150,000 from the button and then called the reraise to 250,000 form Tulchinskiy in the big blind. Tulchinskiy took his time on the flop and after a while bet out 600,000. Without a moment's thought, Naalden passed and is down to around 2,000,000.
In fact, here are the current chip counts for the non-feature table, in seat order:
Eric Qu: 1,950,000
Pieter de Korver: 3,500,000
Alem Shah: 2,000,000
Marc Naalden: 2,075,000
Christopher Rossiter: 2,000,000
Mikhail Tulchinskiy: 4,050,000
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Like ducks in a row came the raises. Pieter de Korver to 160,000. Marc Naalden to 400,000. Christopher Rossiter to 1.6 million. It was a nice way to pick up a third of Rossiter's stack without taking a flop (de Korver and Naalden both folded).
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Annette Obrestad - 13th Place
Annette Obrestad opted for cagey play after dinner. It worked for her the first time she tried it, limping in from the small blind as first in and then pushing Eric Qu off his hand after he raised from the big blind to 210,000. The second time, however, it cost Obrestad her place in the tournament.
Mikhail Tulchinskiy got things started with a raise to 150,000. Obrestad had position on Tulchinskiy and opted to call. The small blind, Pieter de Korver, also called for a three-way flop of . Action checked to Obrestad, who bet 300,000. De Korver asked for a count on Obrestad (about 1.3 million) before raising to 800,000. Tulchinskiy sensed that his presence was not needed. He folded.
Obrestad, the only player left to act in the pot, silently moved the rest of her chips over the betting line. De Korver quickly called, showing Obrestad some very bad news.
Obrestad:
De Korver:
De Korver's set of nines had Obrestad crushed. She very quickly gathered her things after turn was the and the river made unnecessary quads for de Korver. Obrestad was out of the door within 60 seconds. At some point she'll be back to collect €77,000.
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Mikkelsen - roughly same chips as before
Over on the feature table, where it's actually very soothing to be a railer, with the squashy benches to sit on and the relative hush and the bright lights making it very warm and pleasant, an enormous pot erupted.
Matthew Woodward made it a minimum-raise 120,000 and Grayson Physioc called, as did Dag Martin Mikkelsen on the button and Steven Silverman in the big blind. Four-way to the flop.
Flop:
It checked all the way around to Mikkelsen, who bet 225,000. Silverman passed, but Woodward announced all in for a total of 1,800,000 and pushed his whole stack across the line. Physioc got out of their way, and back to Mikkelsen, who looked Woodward dead in the eye, or would have done had Woodward not been staring intently at the felt. "I call," he said most decisively, and all the railers stood up for some reason.
But...
Woodward:
Mikkelsen:
Turn:
River:
Choppity chop.
In fact, there have now been three chopped all-in pots since we got back from dinner - versus for Alem Shah and Pieter de Korver, and versus for Steven Silverman and Daniel Zink. It's as though the poker gods want us to stay here in the Le Sporting Club forever.
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. Qu quickly jammed his last 930,000 chips into the middle and stood up from the table. With his arms crossed in front of his chest, he waited about a minute for Rossiter to fold.
; he was dominated by Zink's 
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, giving Silverman some extra outs to a chop. He picked up a couple more outs for the chop and for the win with the 
turn. Yet the river blanked 
safely for Zink, sending Silverman to the rail in 12th place.
flop and after a while bet out 600,000. Without a moment's thought, Naalden passed and is down to around 2,000,000.
. Action checked to Obrestad, who bet 300,000. De Korver asked for a count on Obrestad (about 1.3 million) before raising to 800,000. Tulchinskiy sensed that his presence was not needed. He folded.
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