Andrea Dato is now pretty short-stacked after getting his stack in with 
against the 
of Julien Biague. The final board ran out 
and Biague helped himself to Dato's chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
85,000
68,000
|
68,000 |
|
17,500
-70,500
|
-70,500 |
|
||
Sampo Ryynanen is our new chip leader after taking almost all of Alfonso Amendola's stack and all of Timothy Reilly's.
He claimed Reilly's chips for his own whilst holding 
t Reilly's 
on a 
fop that had two diamonds on it, then almost scalped Amendola in a huge coinflip 
versus 
.
Amendola lost the rest of his stack with 
against Ryynanen's 
when the board ran out 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
190,000
136,100
|
136,100 |
Those of you who are keeping an eye on the chip counts will have no doubt noticed he has flown up the standings after starting the day as a short stack.
He told us he has been all in twice and both times had 100% equity. The first he held 
on a 
flop and was all in against then he got his bigger stack in the middle with 
vs Giovanni Rizzo's on a board.
Now that Mattern has chips at his disposal he has more room to actually play poker and he is certainly a threat again here in Malta.
Jeffrey Rossiter has been on somewhat of a poker tour over the last few weeks, participating in WPT Paris, WPT Malta and we would assume he will be heading to Cannes this week for the World Series of Poker Europe.
He started the day with a healthy stack of 80,000 or so chips but now has more than double that as he is currently sat behind a stack of 185,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
185,000
102,600
|
102,600 |
Vanessa Selbst has been eliminated at the hands of Enver Abduraimov. We caught the very end of the action where Selbst was all in and at risk with 
(having made a pair of tens on a jack-high board) and Abduraimov holding pocket aces.
Selbst couldn't catch one of her outs and has thus been eliminated from WPT Malta.
Former World Series of Poker Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel is short stacked and has resorted to pushing all in or folding. He chose the former just now and moved in for 12,400 and the action folded all the way around to Svetlana Afanasjeva in the big blind, and she checked her cards showed the 
, chuckled and folded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
129,000
-18,500
|
-18,500 |
|
91,000
-400
|
-400 |
|
|
||
|
|
88,000
-18,300
|
-18,300 |
|
|
||
|
74,000
28,000
|
28,000 |
|
63,600
-32,500
|
-32,500 |
|
||
|
62,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
61,500
-34,300
|
-34,300 |
|
61,200
47,300
|
47,300 |
|
59,000
43,300
|
43,300 |
|
58,000
8,500
|
8,500 |
|
57,500
-19,900
|
-19,900 |
|
|
||
|
54,100
-3,900
|
-3,900 |
|
50,000
-7,000
|
-7,000 |
|
||
|
39,000
-35,800
|
-35,800 |
|
35,000
-8,900
|
-8,900 |
|
33,800
-2,000
|
-2,000 |
|
16,700
-89,300
|
-89,300 |
|
12,400
-28,500
|
-28,500 |
|
Busted | |
Level: 10
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
The players have been sent on a 10 minute break as out first of six levels have been played out.
