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Play starts at 4pm (3pm UK time).


Ram Vaswani -- 152,800
Paul Gourlay -- 63,900
Nikolai Evdakov -- 36,500
Atanas Gueorguieu -- 91,000
Jeff Lisandro -- 150,800
Csaba Kuremski -- 115,000
Will Ma -- 130,200
Vivian Anseline -- 57,400
Christophe Cabras -- 59,100
Runar Runarsson -- 133,900
Sami Shakhtoor -- 72,600
Nichlas Saalisilta -- 253,600
Nikolas Liakos -- 140,800
Antoine Nouel -- 71,600
Yury Kerzhepkin -- 23,700
Jeff Wallace -- 61,700
David Redlin -- 202,700
Otto Richard -- 138,300
Freddie Deeb -- 262,500
Clement Amagot -- 25,300
Adrien Gavile -- 114,400
Tor Gammelgard -- 165,700
Kirill Rabstov -- 33,400
Johan Storakers -- 61,600
Turgut Gunar -- 43,900
Georges Teboul -- 121,800


Table 5:

(1) Kirill Rabstov
(2) Yuri Kerzhapkin
(3) Johan Storakers
(4) Paul Gourlay
(5) Samir Shakhtoor
(6) Jeff Wallace
(7) Freddy Deeb
(8) Ram Vaswani
(9) Viven Anseline

Table 6:

(1) Otto Richard
(2) Csaba Kuremszki
(3) Georges Teboul
(4) Jeff Lisandro
(5) Tor Gammelgard
(6) Turgut Guner
(7) Runar Runarsson
(8) Antoine Nouel
(9) Adrien Gavile

Table 7:

(1) David Redlin
(2) Will Ma
(3) Clement Amagat
(4) Nikolas Liakos
(5) Atanas Gueorgiuieu
(6) Nichlas Saarisilta
(7) Christophe Cabras
(8) Nikolay Evdakov


Prize Structure:

1  €422,560
2  €224,480
3  €158,460
4  €105,640
5   €79,230
6   €66,020
7   €52,820
8   €39,615
9   €26,410
10-13 €19,810
14-18 €13,205

The blinds are currently 1,600/3,200, ante 300.

It has been announced that they will play from 26 players down to....18.  They will stop at the money.  I'm looking at a bit of a half day at the office...

Kirill Rabstov gets it all in with Th 6s vs. the 8h 8c of Samir Shakhtoor, spiking two Sixes to knock out one of Snoopy's picks straight away...  ::)

Then neighbouring shortstack Yuri Kerzhapkin gets a call for his all-in Jacks from Vivian Anseline's Ad 9d.  Despite the Js Td 7c flop, a second 7h housed Yuri up and doubled him through.

Interesting action on table Runarsson:  Runar gets extremely het up after he finds himself re-re-raised all-in preflop by Georges Teboul.  He talks at his opponent for a minute or so, until some of the more restless elements on the table kind of prod him to make a decision. 
"I can speak to the man, right?" yells Runar, "You can call the clock, you can do nothing else!  He's not involved in the hand...give him a yellow card..."
Someone calls the clock.

With 30 seconds left to act, on a decision for his tournament, Runar says, "I've never done this before," and passes Kd Kc face up.

Georges shows the Ac Ahrt. 

Turgut Guner is OUT in 24th place...

He moved in for a total of 31,900 after a double preflop limp from Georges Teboul and Jeffrey Lisandro.  Teboul (and the blinds, who were yet to act) got out of the way, but Lisandro looked at the 15k pot and decided to call with his Jd Td.
Georges Teboul showed Aspades 9s.

Flop:  Ks 9h Qs   Turgut looked hopeful...
Turn:  Ad
River:  3c  Turgut looked a bit stunned as the chips were shipped gently the other way, leaving him to do the walk of shame.
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Clement Amagat finishes in 23rd place, at almost exactly the same time.  No details though, might have to ask Benjo...

Christophe Cabras is OUT in 22nd place...

...getting it all in with 7c 7h on an 8-4-7 flop against Atanas Gueorgiueu's Ts Tc.  No improvement, no money finish - and painfully close, too...

It's going at incredible speed today - all this action within the first 40 minutes of play.  It was perhaps an odd decision to play a full five 90 minute levels yesterday (when the advertised structure announced that Day Two would play down to 72) but one way or another it IS going to be a six-day tournament and that's that.

Johan Storakers (shortstacked) just went out in harsh style to Ram Vaswani... I just saw his Ad Kc vs. Ram's Kh Tc with a raggy board, crowned with what looked like a rivered Ten.  A shrug from the semi-contrite victor and it's all nearly over...20 players remaining...

A mountain of chips gets pushed to Will Ma courtesy of neighbour David Redlin (pictured) a couple of minutes ago...
The board read Ac 3h 5s 2h 2d (although I think the Ace might have been the river).  Will's Kh Kc were on their backs, and were the winning hand - I heard they'd been up against Jacks.  The amount Will was all in for on the river alone was 86,100, with around 120k in the pot already, that puts him up around the 300k mark, while David Redlin has just 40k currently.

Vivian 'Aniki' Anseline is OUT in 20th place... all in preflop with Ac Qc vs. Jeff Wallace's Ks Kc.  The eliminating board:  Qd Jc Jd Js 5c and we are Hand For Hand...

Now perilously short stacked, David Redlin shoved preflop over mid-position raiser Atanas Gueorgiueu, who called sharpish with his Th Ts, finding young Redlin on Ad 9d.  "Bubble boy," he commented to himself, "That was stupid..."
Flop:  Td Kc 3d
Turn:  5d
River:  7h

And David's back in it, remarking on the age-old truism that luck is needed in poker.

We have a Final 18...

Otto Richard raised preflop, and found Tor Gammelgard in the big blind raising 113k.  That was mainly all in neat white 5k chips, but Otto's stack was all towers of lower denom chips and when he announced 'Call' he ended up leaving himself a sad 20k behind.
On the 3s 9h 5c flop, Tor put him all-in, he autocalled.
Tor:  Jh Js
Otto:  Ks Qh
The turn and river: 3c 2d

SO Otto Richard is our bubble, 19th place finisher.

So - they will play 18 down to 6 tomorrow (Thursday) from 4pm (3pm UK time).  Coverage will continue right here, as I don't feel I really got started today...

    * Tor Gammelgard 377,800 5/8
    * Freddie Deeb 299,100 6/4
    * Will Ma 294,500 5/1
    * Ram Vaswani 252,400 6/8
    * Nichlas Saarisilta Mattsou 205,900 6/7
    * Atanas Gueorguieu 202,400 6/9
    * Jeff Lisandro 197,900 6/6
    * Nikolai Liakos 140,500 5/6
    * Runar Runarsson 123,100 6/1
    * Kirill Rabtsov 113,800 6/2
    * Csaba Kuremszki 96,300 6/3
    * Georges Teboul 95,300 5/3
    * David Redlin 92,000 6/5
    * Adrien Gavile 89,800 5/7
    * Jeff Wallace 57,200 5/2
    * Antoine Nouel 50,900 5/4
    * Yuri Kerzhapkin 50,500 5/9
    * Paul Gourlay 43,800 5/5

Bonjour les Anglais!

The final two tables, hopefully rested after their miniday yesterday, are just kicking off.  Same level they were playing yesterday, unbelievably... 1,600/3,200 ante 300 for a few minutes, then up to 2k/4k ante 400.

Attack of the Eights:

Paul Gourlay all-in under the gun with the Eights, no call, but some blinds for the Rocketman...

David Redlin all-in with 8s 8d against Ahrt Jc..a board of Ad 6h 2c Ac 8h looked good for one but better for the other and the short-stacked American doubles up to around 150k. 

 :hello: Cooooeeeee

Csaba Kuremszki is OUT, rocked by Ram Vaswani who er... I guess rocked the Casaba (ahem).

Anyhow, I joined it at the very last second, but looking at seating position, it appears as though Csaba raised pre-flop from middle position and Ram smooth called from the big blind.

All the money flew in like lightening on an Ac Tc 5c board, and the cards were turned over.

Csaba = Aspades Ad

Ram = 7c 6c

Turn = 9s

River = 8d

Tough one, huh?

And extreme short-stack Yuri Kerzhapkin doubles through (I am sure I've said that at least twice a day...) all in preflop with 4d 4s vs. neighbour Tor Gammelgard's Ac 2d.  The little pair makes two pair with the help of the board, and he's still there.

Double up for Antoine Nouel... he raised to 15k preflop (just under half his stack..."Hmmm," we thought) put all in for less than 45k by later-position Tor Gammelgard.  He happily shoved the rest with his Ac Aspades, up against Tor's 6h 6d. 
The board:  Js Qh Qs 8h 2c  and the Frenchman's nearly at six figures once more.

***Great Background Moment***  Benjo told me that Antoine is actually an actor/comedian who also does dubbing voice-overs for TV and movies.  Included in his resume is being Chandler in the French Friends.  Wikipedia verifies this - who would have guessed...?

Nichlas Saarisilta is playing quite a few hands... first raising preflop and getting called by big blind Kirill Rabstov, they checked until the river with the board reading Qd 9h 6d 9c Kh at which point a 14k bet from Nichlas took down the pot.

Then he lost it back to Runar Runarsson, who called his under the gun raise and 17k on the Ac 6d Js flop, only to bet him off on the Ahrt turn. 

Back and forth...we've had a press side bet on the time they get to 6 players (the finish for Day 4).  Go 21:17!

Double up for Paul Gourlay, all-in from the button for 33,700, called by Nikalas Liakos in the small blind.

Paul = Ac Qd

Nikalas = 9h 9c

Board = 2h Js Jd Kh Th

WE HAVE ACTION!

;as; 

Huge hand between Runar Runarsson and Freddy Deeb.  Freddy called Runar's preflop raise, and with around 25k in the pot, the flop comes down 4h 8h Jd.  Runar checks, and Freddy announces, "All in," almost immediately.  This is a big bet - Runar is covered by about two to one in chips, but starts off the verbal drama which follows by asking for a countdown.
"I got you covered," says Freddy.
"He's got you covered," agrees the rest of the table. (Runar has about 125k behind).
"You have a flush draw?  A-J?  Queens?" asks Runar to a silent Freddy, who's hands are clasped patiently.  But not that patient.  For the second time I see the clock called on the agitated Icelander. 
"Why you ask for the clock?" continues Runar, before suddenly saying, "I don't f-ing care.  I made a good laydown before, this time I call."
Runar shows Kh Ks
Freddy shows Qd Qs  and is clearly not pleased at being marginal-slowrolled, in his opinion ("Hope the Queen comes...You were never going to fold...")
But it doesn't - the rest of the board cards bring a flush for Runarsson:  5h Jh and Freddy Deeb's stack is down to maybe 130k.

Double through for Deeb... immediately after he loses a pot to Jeffrey Lisandro (who called on the button to take him off on the flop) short stacked Freddy Deeb raises to 15k preflop.  Again, Lisandro takes him on, calling on the small blind.
Flop:  2d Qh Qd  Jeffrey thinks for a good long time, reading the board as if the secret recipe for Coca-cola might be hidden in those three cards, before saying, "All in...45, right?"
Freddy Deeb agrees, his stack is, "45,800.  I call."  He shows Jd Jc which remain good against Jeffrey's Ahrt 5h.

We have also lost Adrien Gavile in 17th place (very short stacked, all in for his final hand with just 21k, called and eliminated by Will Ma) and just now Atanas Gueorguieu in 16th, whose Ac Qc was demolished by Jeffrey Lisandro's Kh Kd (ending up with Kings full and a stack to rival Ram's...full counts in one minute).

Payout reminder:

1  €422,560
2  €224,480
3  €158,460 
4  €105,640
5   €79,230
6   €66,020
7   €52,820
8   €39,615
9   €26,410
10-13 €19,810
14-18 €13,205

Seemingly tough decision for Paul 'Rocket Man'Gourlay.

I join the action with around 30k in the pot and the board reading Kh 4h Th.

Will Ma has put Paul all-in for his last 45-50k.

At first, Will Ma leaves the table so as not to give anything away, but is asked to return to his seat by the TD.

Upon returning, Will Ma proceeds to hide his perhaps slightly wobbly poker face.

Back to Gourlay. Clearly faced with a tricky decision, you can see it on his face as he rises from his seat, hands on his head.

Back in his chair, he suddenly announces "Call", and we have a showdown.

Will Ma = Kc Js

Rocket Man = Ahrt Qs

Turn = 5h

 ;letsparty; ;sexybanana; :dd: ;karabiner; ;thankyou;

Academic River = 5d

Another double up for Rocket Man who er... rockets up to over the 130k mark!!!

Nikolai Liakos is OUT in 15th (I believe & hope), his Queens running into the American Airlines of local hero Georges Teboul, no help on the board.

Chip Counts at the Break:

Table Chip Leaders

Runar Runarsson    365,700
Kirill Rabtsov            66,200
Freddy Deeb         120,000
David Redlin           168,000
Jeff Lisandro          195,000
Nichlas Saarisilta      117,000
Ram Vaswani         462,000

Table Short Stacks

Will Ma                 276,000
Jeff Wallace           76,000
Georges Teboul     185,000
Antoine Nouel        74,000
Paul Gourlay          140,000
Tor Gammelgard    327,000
Yuri Kerzhapkin      125,000

Blinds up:  2,500/5,000 ante 500.

Exit:  The likeable Antoine Nouel ran his A-5 into the A-A of Will Ma, and finishes, therefore, in 14th place.  It got all-in on a 4-A-K flop, and the huge set took out Antoine and his remaining 75k or so. 

Paul Gourlay, "Extra six grand!"

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Tor Gammelgard has suffered a big hit at the hands of table neighbour Yuri Kerzhapkin, all-in with Qh Qc vs. Ad Ks, Jd 8h Ahrt 2d Ac board.

Paul Gourlay takes a bit of a hit - raising to 15k preflop, it passes to big blind (5k) Will Ma.  Who calls. 
Flop:  7h Js Jh  A superquick double-check.
Turn:  Aspades  Will throws in two blue 10k chips.  Quick smooth call from Paul...
River:  4c  Will bets out 30k and gets another quick call, Paul showing the Ac Qd.  But the slowplayed flopped trips of Will Ma (holding Jc 9c) take the pot and reduce the Rocketman back to a short stack...
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And then he gets right back up and on with it...a bit of a build back for Paul as he first of all shoves from the small blind on a threeway limped flop of 7s 6c 9c - no call - showing the 9s, and then pushes preflop pretty much straight after that, building back to around 90,000.

So too is Jeff Wallace, pictured, who has remained under the radar a bit today, but was just caught pushing, uncalled, for his <100k.  The quiet American (oxymoron?) seems to be getting past the aggressors on his table like Will Ma and Tor Gammelgard, while remaining permanently on a bowl of rice...maybe we've just been looking the other way when he's been involved, but it would be interesting to see a few of his cards...
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For Fan-of-Yuri, chip counts from his table (where he's done very well seeing as he started to day second shortest in chips:

Will Ma               500,000
Jeff Wallace         70,000
Georges Teboul   190,000
Paul Gourlay         62,000
Tor Gammelgard  142,000
Yuri Kerzhapkin    247,000

And counts from Table Ram+Runar:

Runar Runarsson    470,000
Kirill Rabtsov          105,000
Freddy Deeb         135,000
David Redlin          110,000
Jeffrey Lisandro     250,000
Nichlas Saarisilta      83,000
Ram Vaswani         370,000

Georges Teboul raises it up to 15k pre-flop from the button, Tor Gammelgard calls from the big blind.

Flop = 7h 6s Qc

To instachecks, Georges bets 20k, Tor calls.

Turn = 3d

Tor bets 25k, Georges pushes all-in, Tor instacalls.

Tor = 7c 7s

Georges = Qh Js

River = 9s

Georges down to the felt.

Nichlas Saarisilta is OUT in 13th place, winning €19,810...

He pushed all in fron the small blind after a cutoff raise to 16k from David Redlin.  Another 60k even to Redlin (more than half his stack, it looked like) and he thought for a while, saying, "Just a little bit too much..." but maybe that meant, "A little bit too much for me NOT to call with my Sevens," because that's exactly what he did.
David Redlin showed:  7d 7h
Nichlas Saarisilta showed:  Ac 5c
The board came Jc 6h Jd 6c... 8d and the quiet, "Please hold!" from David was answered by the poker deity in the affirmative.

After folding 2-5 on the button ("I didn't fancy it"), Rocket Man finds a spot the very next hand, moving in for 37k from the cut-of with 6h 6d and being called by Tor's 5c 5h.

Board = Qd Jd 2c

"Keep 'em high, dealer"

Turn = 9d

River = 6s

"Ooooh, I wasn't sure for a moment there."

Paul survives.

Ma vs. Kerzhapkin... Yuri raised it to 15k preflop, called in position by Will Ma. 
Flop:  Jc 2h 5h  Yuri checked, Will bet 20k; call.
Turn:  2c  Yuri checked, Will bet 40k; call.
River:  8h  Yuri now bets out the strange amount of 20k.  Will thinks for a while, looks a little agonised, but eventually either had the goods himself or decided this wasn't a milky value bet after all and raised it a further 65k.  A chagrined Yuri Kerzhapkin passed, leaving himself just 110k or thereabouts.

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Georges Teboul, who's been in and out more times than the hokey cokey over the last couple of rounds, has just moved all-in for his last 37k from under-the-gun, but called by Will Ma in the small blind who pretty much put the big blind (Jeff Wallace) all-in if he wanted to play.

Both players turned over A-2, and we had a split pot.

Bit of a weird one on that same table now... Paul Gourlay limps preflop, Tor Gammelgard does the same, small blind Jeff Wallace passes for the 3k it is to him, and big blind Georges Teboul passes for the 0k it is to him...wait, no, he didn't mean to do that, and gets his cards back even though the dealer had swept them in.  "If it doesn't touch the muck," the ruling goes, "the hand is not dead."  OK... so threeway flop:
Jh 7d Qc  Check-check-check
Turn:  5s  Check-check-check
River:  9h  Georges checks, Paul puts in a 10k bet, called by Tor on his left.  He unhappily shows 3d 3c, losing to his opponent's Ac 9c.

Doublement Tapis!

Two of the shortest stacks find themselves on the small and big blinds, Jeff Wallace pushing on the small blind (pretty much automatically), covered his neighbour Georges Taboul, who called all-in instantly with Ahrt 3s.  Jeff showed Jd 6s.
Flop:  Qh Kh Ac
Turn:  6c
River:  Tc  "Straight!  Jack,"  points out Wallace, helpfully - Georges is a little shocked after that promising flop, but leaves the table smiling in 12th place (winning €19,810), amid a veritable flurry of French and some arm-waving.

Rough counts for the Final 11:

Runar Runarsson   440k
Kirill Rabtsov         106k
Freddy Deeb        110k
David Redlin         240k
Jeff Lisandro        325k
Ram Vaswani       310k

Will Ma               590k
Jeff Wallace         105k
Paul Gourlay          80k
Tor Gammelgard  265k
Yuri Kerzhapkin     72k

And we're down to 10 players, as short stack Kirill Rabstov gets it all in against Jeff Lisandro... Q-3 vs. Lisandro's A-Q - Jeffrey just limped with his A-Q, having seen Kirill short-stack-shove several times previously, and after Ram and Runar both limped too Kirill did in fact put the lot in.  Lisandro called and that was that.

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The current shortstacks and potential bubble boys are:

Yuri Kerzhapkin -- 57,500
Paul Gourlay -- 91,000
Freddy Deeb -- 108,000

Yuri Kerzhapkin is proving unbustable in this tournament... despite moving in just now on the button with Kc 7h and getting an instacall from small blind Will Ma's Aspades Kd, he spiked the flop like so:  7d 6s 2h and the 8c 6d turn and river came down harmlessly (while Paul mysteriously rooted for the all in player to crack the dominating hand). 

Freddie Deeb is OUT in 10th position.

All-in pre-flop.

Deeb = Tc Td

Lisandro = Ad 9c

Board = 3d Kd 2d 5d 6c

(1) Paul Gourlay -- 122,000
(2) Jeff Wallace -- 103,000
(3) Will Ma -- 610,000
(4) Yuri Kerzhapkin -- 111,500
(5) Tor Gammelgard -- 255,000
(6) Runar Runarsson -- 309,000
(7) Ram Vaswani -- 413,000
(8) Jeff Lisandro -- 490,500
(9) David Redlin -- 370,500