It's very tense out there at the moment, with most hands taking quite a while to complete. We did witness one all-in, however, as Ramazanali Abbassi's preflop raise of 7,000 was reraised all in by J?rg Peisert for what appeared to be around the 18,000 mark. Naturally, Abbassi made the call.
Abbassi =
Peisert =
Not a bad flop for Peisert...
Turn =
River =
Abbassi is now the current short stack and engulfed by the looming shadow of the bubble.
With some sort of confusion over whether Mark Vos had called or reraised Tony G preflop, Tony declared himself all in before the flop. "I hope you don't have a wrap," said Vos as he eyed up the flop. "I have a gutshot." He called.
Vos:
Tony G:
Vos, looking at Tony G's cards: "That's my gutshot."
Turn:
River:
Tony G doubles up to just over 20,000, while Vos drops down to 23,000.
With the board reading , Simon Kullenberg bet 10,000.
His opponent Thierry Loqmane bit his lip, then sat back in his chair. He pulled a peculiarly French expression, his mouth downturned at the corners, before folding.
This hand was, it seems, a pretty big setback for him -- just a few hands later and Loqmane was out, the rest of chips heading to Klaus Dresl.
Jorn Walthaus is our latest low-roller casualty: he raised pot and then called all in to a reraise from Fedor Los. Walthaus' was behind Los' all the way, and he finishes in 12th place, just outside the money.
John Duthie, short again, pushed all in on his big blind, and got himself called by Mark Vos. The actual cards are a little hazy, but Duthie was all done, and has presumably headed for the buffet.
Thierry Loqmane limped in, and it folded around to Simon Kullenberg in the small blind who raised pot -- 6,400 in total.
Big blind Tony Bromham, however, made it pot again -- a total of 20,800. Loqmane got out of there pretty sharpish, and after a pause, so did Kullenberg.