A full board reading was out on the felt when we got there; Tom Dwan's perma-rail had increased significantly owing to the fact that he had bet 25,000 to cover Tomer Berda. Berda removed his shades and looked very unhappy. In fact, he looked bereaved. Over the course of the next seven or eight minutes, Berda appeared to go through the following stages:
- incomprehension
- grief
- anger
- back to incomprehension
- then back to grief
Finally, acceptance - he folded. Berda is at 18,000 after that. Dwan is up to around 40,000.
Three of the top fifteen stacks belong to Frenchmen - these players having reached the half point mark of Day 1a in good shape. Elsewhere Michael Tureniec is up over 78,000 and may have sneaked into the lead overall.
Vitaly Lunkin has been eliminated, following a preflop confrontation in which having three-bet with he continued with the rest of his stack when the original raiser set him in. It was around 17,000, soon 0,000 after his opponent's held on a board.
With the board reading and after both players had checked the turn, Ben Wilinofsky had fired out 4,200 on the river against Henri Kasper. The Estonian making a semi-reluctant call but nodded and tapped the table when Wilinofsky turned over .
Allen Bari is back up to almost his stack after doubling up with against an unknown gentleman's on a board. He's at 29,000 now and it's like his painful last hour or so never happened at all.
Rupert Elder - a look of boredom that only someone who has just won �930,000 can have.
Rupert Elder, the latest EPT winner, had previously tweeted that he really hadn't been playing very well and gave himself a rating of "C-".
He'd fired out a bet of 900 on a on a flop of and was check-called by his opponent in the big blind. Both players checked the turn while the big blind checked the river as well, Elder now fired 2,000 - getting called once again. The Brit showed and it was good.
Andrew "LuckyChewy" Lichenberger was a pretty short stack at the start of the hand, and he was even shorter at the end of it.
The pot comprised exactly 9,050 on the turn, the board reading . Lichtenberger checked and behind him in the hijack Leo Fernandez checked as well.
The river was the and Lichtenberger checked again. Fernandez tanked for what felt like an hour (possibly an exaggeration) before checking behind, and turning over . Lichtenberger mucked his hand, then changed his mind; the obliging dealer returned his hand so that he could show a .
Fernandez is at 44,000 now, Lichtenberger at just 10,000.
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was out on the felt when we got there; Tom Dwan's perma-rail had increased significantly owing to the fact that he had bet 25,000 to cover Tomer Berda. Berda removed his shades and looked very unhappy. In fact, he looked bereaved. Over the course of the next seven or eight minutes, Berda appeared to go through the following stages:
he continued with the rest of his stack when the original raiser set him in. It was around 17,000, soon 0,000 after his opponent's 
held on a 
board.
and after both players had checked the turn, Ben Wilinofsky had fired out 4,200 on the river against Henri Kasper. The Estonian making a semi-reluctant call but nodded and tapped the table when Wilinofsky turned over 
.
board. He's at 29,000 now and it's like his painful last hour or so never happened at all.
and was check-called by his opponent in the big blind. Both players checked the 
.