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Mattias Jorstedt yesterday - he looks much the same today
We arrived just in time to see Maxim Panyar leaving the table, his chips disappearing into the stack of Mattias Jorstedt. Whatever Panyar was holding it couldn't beat the of Jorstedt, which looked so pretty lying face up on the table that the dealer accidentally shuffled the deck for the next hand without them. Jorstedt eventually pushed his cards to the dealer, who nodded his thanks and play continued. Jorstedt was up to 250,000 after that.
By the by, also recently busted: EPT Barcelona finalist Mihai Manole.
Ville Salmi raised to 4,450 in the hijack, and right behind him, Katja Thater moved in her whole stack. That made it 41,000 total. The big blind, Matvey Linov, tanked for a few minutes before folding. Salmi quickly followed suit, and Katja scooped the pot to move up to over 50,000.
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Montgomery - much happier than he looks
We arrived at Scott Montgomery's table to find the 2008 WSOP Main Event finalist all in on a flop. His opponent Christopher Jensen had tanked up long enough for the clock to be called, but no sooner than TD Thomas Kremser had reached the table than Jensen decided to make the call and the two players turned over their cards.
Montgomery: for a pair and a gutshot
Jensen: for overcards
Turn:
River:
Montgomery's pair stayed ahead and he doubled up to 55,000, around what he started the day with.
The official chip counts from the first break put British circuit regular Jonathan Weekes at 28,000, but we can only assume that this was a typo as he is currently our chip leader.
Weekes was short towards the end of last night, but doubled through Kristoffer Thorsson right at the death to put him near the top of the counts at 145,400 when Day 2 came around. Since then (barring a theoretically possible but somewhat unlikely drop to the aforementioned 28,000) he has only increased his stack, and is currently at a whopping 355,000.
Raymi Sanchez Thorn raised to 3,700 from the cutoff, but Jeff Sarwer made it 10,500 to go from the small blind. Back to Thorn, who now went all in to cover Sarwer's remaining 50,000.
Sarwer paused for a moment. "Are you from Italy?" he asked.
"No," replied Thorn.
"Romania?" Sarwer tried again.
"No."
"Hey, what have you got against people from Italy?" chuckled Italian tablemate Attilio Donato.
"No, nothing," said Sarwer quickly. He paused again. "Maybe Bulgaria?"
Anyway, Sarwer eventually folded, and Thorn, who we understand is from Sweden, took the pot.
Didier Erb just jumped up to 85,000 after he found right at the moment that Slobodan Bjelobrk picked up with the board running out .
Meanwhile, Domenico Ficarra just got very excited and banged the table after his held up against Andrey Mitlyansky's when the latter saw a backdoor flushdraw whiffed on a board.
Mikhail Mazunin made it 4,000 under the gun and it folded around to Arnaud Mattern in the cutoff who made it 11,200 to go. Back to Muzunin, who thought about it very briefly before announcing, "I'm all in," with a flourish of his hand.
"I call," announced Mattern without so much as a pause for breath.
Mazunin:
Mattern:
Board:
Mattern's cowboys held up, and he lassoed himself a brand new 187,000 stack. Mazunin was left with a still very manageable 115,000.
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of Jorstedt, which looked so pretty lying face up on the table that the dealer accidentally shuffled the deck for the next hand without them. Jorstedt eventually pushed his cards to the dealer, who nodded his thanks and play continued. Jorstedt was up to 250,000 after that.
flop. His opponent Christopher Jensen had tanked up long enough for the clock to be called, but no sooner than TD Thomas Kremser had reached the table than Jensen decided to make the call and the two players turned over their cards.
for a pair and a gutshot
for overcards
right at the moment that Slobodan Bjelobrk picked up 
with the board running out 
.
held up against Andrey Mitlyansky's 
when the latter saw a backdoor flushdraw whiffed on a 
board.
flop only to see Pokerstars qualifier Christopher Murphy move all for around 40,000 or so.
and made the call, only to see he was drawing to a solitary out as Murphy flipped 
turn and 
