We're on 75 minute levels today - by the by, we'll be playing five of them today - so players are getting a 15 minute break after every one.
Out on to the balcony, everybody!
We're on 75 minute levels today - by the by, we'll be playing five of them today - so players are getting a 15 minute break after every one.
Out on to the balcony, everybody!
Kristijonas Andrulis fired out a bet of 3,200 on a flop of with Italian Davide Maglione making the call. The turn was the and Andrulis thought for a moment before betting 8,800. Maglione now moved all-in only to be instantly called by Andrulis' flopped set of while Maglione showed a slightly speculative that had turned a straight draw.
The river was the making the straight and Maglione simply said, "Sorry," as Joep van den Bijgaart stifled a giggle, along with several other players on the table. Maglione doubled up to around 100,000. while Andrulis has been crippled with less than 20,000 remaining.
Perica Bukara is having a very easy time at the moment, he just knocked out Tuomas Jalonen, the latter pushing with and Bukara making a quick call with to add another 20,000 to his stack after the board came .
Antonio Buonanno opened to 3,100 from middle position, and next to act, Anders Jensen reraised to 8,900. Buonanno made the call, and they were heads up to the flop. Both quickly checked, and it went check-check again on the turn. The river put a third heart out there, and Buonanno checked again. Jensen bet 10,100. It only tok Buonanno a second to toss out a call, then even less time to muck when Jensen tabled for top pair, top kicker. Jensen moved up to 83,000, leaving 60,000 in Buonanno's stack.
When we caught the hand on the river of a board, chip leader Perica Bukara was heads up with online qualifier Christopher Murphy. Murphy bet out 16,000, and Bukara smoothly made it 43,000 to get to showdown. Murphy made the call, and Bukara turned up for a full boat. Murphy didn't have it beat and dropped down to 40,000 while Bukara soared to 270,000.
Steven van Zadelhoff was looking a board where checked across to the aggressive Belarussian Vadim Markushevski. The Team Pokerstars Pro slid out a bet of 14,000 but after a short while, Van Zadelholff check-raised to 37,000 putting Markushevski into the tank.
Several minutes elapsed and eventually Markushevski folded, Van Zadelhoff later tweeted that he had and is up to 142,000.
Mikhail Glushankov got his last in with and must have felt dreadful when his opponent Team PokerStars Pro Vadim Markushevski turned over .
Board:
Glushanko duly busted out, and Markushevki moved up to 150,000.
Arnaud Mattern opened to 2,800 preflop from early position and Mikhail Mazunin reraised out of the small blind to 7,200. Mattern made the call to see a flop where the Russian continued the aggression with a 9,200 bet.
Mattern made a fairly speedy call before both players checked the turn and then the river. Mazunin looked about as frustrated as the average England fan at the World Cup, turning over having hoped the Frenchman would make a move. Sneaky boy.
Mattern drops to about 87,000 while Mazunin moves up to 66,000.
Kristoffer Thorsson has had a fine start to the day.
We arrived just in time to see him knocking out Zennawi Petros. We didn't quite manage to see what Mr. Petros had, but Thorsson had a flopped set of sixes and Petros couldn't beat it.
Thorsson must have won another decent pot right at the start of the day, as he has managed in just a few hands to increase his stack from 32,500 at the start of the day to almost 100,000 now.
No luck for Andrew Teng at the start of day 2.
"Second hand, I got 32k in with ...he had ," he said matter of factly.