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Team Pokerstars Pro Ville Wahlbeck has been knocked out in a huge pot against his fellow Team Pro Ivan Demidov. The board was reading 
with Demidov showing the 
and the pot being shipped to the Russian.
According to the Finnish media, Wahlbeck had mucked on the river having seen his opponent's hand but had told them that he had 
for the turned straight.
Demidov is up to 470,000 and among the chip leaders.
Joep van den Bijgaart has also been eliminated.
A micro-double up for Raymi Sanchez Thorn as he pushed for around 18,000 from the small blind to a 5,800 raise from Attilio Donato on the button. Donato didn't look very happy about calling but did it anyway, and he took a small hit to leave him with 165,000 while Thorn doubled to stay in the game on 40,000 or so.
"I bluff," said Donato, somewhat unnecessarily.
Thorn: 
Donato: 
Board: 
Jonathan Weekes opened preflop to 6,000 before Ali Tekintamgac 3-bet the small blind to 17,200. Then the big blind Luca Pagano raised to 48,000 only to see Weekes push all-in, easily covering both other players.
Tekintamgac folded fairly quickly but Pagano took as much time as he could get, counting back out his remaining 182,000 stack.
The Italian stated, "Very likely I'm gonna fold but I wanna be sure...Is it easy to fold two kings here?"
Finally, after several minutes Pagano folded asking Weekes to show him aces, the latter gestured for Pagano to fold his hand face up and that he (Weekes) would reciprocate.
Pagano did so, showing the 
and 
and Weekes quickly turned over the 
. Pagano grimaced but remained cool and tapped the table, "Nice hand."
Weekes picks up another 70,000 in chips while getting someone to wrongly fold the second best starting hand in poker.
After several raises, Daniel Drescher moved all in for another 45,600 on top. Vitalijs Zavorotnijs slowly made the call. Drescher was racing with 
against the 
of Zavorotnijs. The board ran out 
, and with no high cards to help him, Drescher was ejected from the tournament. With the big boost to his stack, Zavorotnijs is up to 275,000.
The flop read when we arrived to find Mattias Jorstedt betting out 40,000. Matvey Linov, the young Russian who amassed a huge stack on Day 1a, flat-called.
The turn was the and Jorstedt bet out again, this time to the tune of 100,000. Linov thought about it for some time, but eventually folded, muttering to himself.
Linov was left with a still thoroughly respectable 210,000. Jorstedt however has been on a bit of a rush - his 365,000 was good enough for the chip lead at the last break, but he is now a chip monster on 495,000.
Oleksii Zharko just dispatched Andrea Benelli, a simple case of the latter's 
running into Zharko's 
on a board.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
365,000
115,000
|
115,000 |
|
352,000
-58,000
|
-58,000 |
|
||
|
325,000
161,000
|
161,000 |
|
|
270,000
49,000
|
49,000 |
|
270,000
136,000
|
136,000 |
|
|
267,000
82,000
|
82,000 |
|
260,000
210,000
|
210,000 |
|
|
253,000
105,000
|
105,000 |
|
250,000
-16,000
|
-16,000 |
|
249,000
-6,000
|
-6,000 |
|
|
240,000
85,000
|
85,000 |
|
226,000
94,000
|
94,000 |
|
|
211,000
196,000
|
196,000 |
|
|
||
|
208,000
126,000
|
126,000 |
|
|
||
|
204,000
127,000
|
127,000 |
|
198,000
55,000
|
55,000 |
|
|
||
|
196,000
68,000
|
68,000 |
|
190,000
89,000
|
89,000 |
|
|
188,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
186,000
164,000
|
164,000 |
|
|
185,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
|
183,000
95,000
|
95,000 |
|
176,000
162,000
|
162,000 |
|
175,000
123,000
|
123,000 |
|
170,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
|
||
Neil Johnson just announced, "We know many of you players have been asking, but I can confirm that there is now still water in the fridges here!"
A few cheers and a ripple of applause as there has only been two different types of sparkling water available up until now.
Alessandro de Michele only had a few chips left when he went all in with 
and soon thereafter he had none left at all as the awesomely monikered Pustolas Povilas of Lithuania called with 
.
There was a glimmer of hope for de Michele as the door card came a , but the rest of the board ran out 
to put an end to his tournament hopes. Povilas is up to 185,000.
We found recent WSOP bracelet winner Tomer Berda all in preflop, his well ahead of Vallo Maidla's .
The 
board brought Berda no nasty surprises and he doubled to around 50,000. His Estonian opponent dropped just a little to a still commanding 240,000.
