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Roger Hairabedian moved his short stack all in from the button. After Mikhail Tulchinskiy passed, action was on Johannes Strassmann, who deliberated quite a while.
"Give me some chips, please," Hairabedian requested. There was no response by Strassmann, who continued debating what to do.
"If you pass, I'm happy," said Hairabedian. "If you call, I'm happy too." That prompted Strassmann to call with : Hairabedian turned over . He was a lock to win the pot by the time the turn came down, having made two pair and Strassmann still sitting with an unimproved hand.
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Gregory Zima - 18th Place
With the feature table behind the other two tables by a significant distance, it can be difficult to realize when any action is taking place. Thus, absorbed by a hand between Roger Hairabedian and Johannes Strassmann (details to follow shortly), we had no idea Gregory Zima was out of the table until he joined us on the rail to see what the fuss was about.
"What's wrong?" Mikhail Tulchinskiy, seated at Strassmann's table, asked Zima in Russian.
"I'm out," Zima flatly replied. He took a sip of water from his water bottle and then trudged off, presumably to make himself feel better by collecting €52,000.
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De Korver - pictured waiting for the moment
All in and call preflop, with Pieter de Korver's tournament life at stake.
De Korver:
Mikhail Tulchinskiy:
Board:
When the flush came in on the turn, doubling him up to 700,000, de Korver jumped up from his seat and yelled something in Dutch which was translated for PokerNews by a kind-hearted Dutch press member as, "I was waiting the whole time for this moment," and then grinned widely at the rail. Ahh, bless.
Matthew Woodward started the day as the chip leader. With the starting field cut down from 31 to 18, he's still in the lead. Gloria Balding recently chatted with him:
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It was a slow-to-develop hand between Steven Silverman and Mikhail Tulchinskiy, but it gave plenty of drama. Tulchinskiy raised preflop to 100,000. Silverman, in a blue-striped shirt, was the big blind. He squeezed his cards, scrunched up his face for a few moments, then called.
They were slow to do it, but both players checked a flop of . Silverman fired 170,000 when the turn came an overcard to the flop, the . It was Tulchinskiy who then took several moments, scrunching his own face before calling. The river came bigger again, the . That's where things really slowed down. Silverman took a minute to check; Tulchinskiy took another minute to bet 250,000. Silverman then went into the tank for more than three minutes, peeked back at his cards one last time, and then threw them away.
Tulchinskiy didn't show, of course, but the mind wonders.
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Somerville - can afford a new hat now
Peter Traply raised to 95,000 from the cutoff and on the button, Jason Somerville reraised all in for around 600,000. The blinds wisely got out of the way, and a surprisingly quick call from Traply had them on their backs.
Traply:
Somerville:
Traply: "Ten!"
Flop: BAM! Door card the , then
Traply: "YES!"
Turn:
River:
A shellshocked and dazed Somerville was led away by a floor man to collect his winnings, while at the next table Hairabedian and Tulchinskiy high-fived, although it is not certain that the two things were related.
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Bart Spijkers
Just after the elimination of Ludovic Lacay, Bart Spijkers found himself in a similar situation. He was all in preflop with against Sergio Castelluccio's . Two live cards, right? It's the best a player can hope for when he goes with a hand like jack-ten. Once again, it was the big stack and player with the best hand who paired on the flop, as Castelluccio came up with a pair of aces, .
Spijkers was disgusted and turned away from the table, not seeing that the turn fell to pair him up and give him a flush draw. His friends pointed at the table and he turned back hopefully, but the river fell to end his tournament run. Spijkers is out in 20th place, earning €52,000.
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Ludovic Lacay - 21st Place
Ludovic Lacay was near the top of the counts for a while; now he's out. Johannes Strassmann got things started with a raise of four orange chips (100,000). Lacay's decision when action passed to him was to move all in for a bit more than 500,000. Strassman quickly called and the cards were on their backs.
Strassman:
Lacay:
Two live cards for Lacay that became much less lively after a flop of . Lacay staved off elimination for one street by catching the on the turn, but a repeater finished him off. He exits the tournament in 21st place with €52,000.
Dag Martin Mikkelsen raised to 95,000 under the gun and got a call from Sergio Castellucio on the button. Big blind Peter Traply had other plans, though -- he raised to a million.
Mikkelsen dwelled up for a very long time, looking as though he was doing a lot of very complicated calculations in his head. He dwelled long enough for me to wander up to the TV table when the floor was called over to sort out some kind of dispute regarding hands being mucked too soon. When I arrived back at the table, Mikkelsen was still dwelling, Then he passed.
Castellucio's turn to dwell, and eventually he passed too. Traply received a round of applause from some railers.
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Climber Of The Day Mikhail Tulchinskiy, who started on just 250,000 and is now up to almost 3,000,000, raised from the button. Small blind folded, but big blind Pieter de Korver shoved for another 400,000 or so. After a short pause, our climber folded.
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: Hairabedian turned over 
. He was a lock to win the pot by the time the turn came down, having made two pair and Strassmann still sitting with an unimproved hand.
. Silverman fired 170,000 when the turn came an overcard to the flop, the 
. It was Tulchinskiy who then took several moments, scrunching his own face before calling. The river came bigger again, the 
. That's where things really slowed down. Silverman took a minute to check; Tulchinskiy took another minute to bet 250,000. Silverman then went into the tank for more than three minutes, peeked back at his cards one last time, and then threw them away.
, then 
. Two live cards, right? It's the best a player can hope for when he goes with a hand like jack-ten. Once again, it was the big stack and player with the best hand who paired on the flop, as Castelluccio came up with a pair of aces, 
. 
. Lacay staved off elimination for one street by catching the 
finished him off. He exits the tournament in 21st place with €52,000.
