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Morning all, welcome back for what is quite obviously if you were paying attention yesterday now Day 3 of the Scandinavian Open/ Pokerstars EPT Copenhagen. We have, of course, just 39 players left owing to the dramatic triple bubbling attempts last night, and will be playing down to an eight-handed final table today come what may, so Jen and I are praying for a massive explosion of the field resulting in an early hometime looking forward to a leisurely day of world class poker. Join us at Casino Copenhagen at 2pm Scandie/ 1pm UK time.

Chip counts for our Remaining Contenders, courtesy of the lovely Mad Harper:

Rasmus Hede Nielsen   Denmark   295,500
Joris Jaspers   Holland   294,800
Johan Lund   Sweden   290,500
Patrik Andersson   Sweden   268,500
Jospeh Serock   USA   265,000
Jan Sørensen   Denmark   173,500
Ed de Haas   Holland   167,500
Timothy Vance   USA   154,000
Peter Eastgate   Denmark   154,000
Trond Erik Eidsvig   Norway   149,500
Simon Dørslund   Denmark   148,500
Thomas Christiansen   Denmark   145,500
Nicolas Dervaux   France   143,500
Miikka Samuli Mustonen   Finland   131,000
Daniel Ryan   USA   129,000
Michael Marek   Czech Republic   111,000
Henrik Rune   Denmark   105,500
Martin Bjerring Hansen   Denmark   105,000
Allan Bække   Denmark   95,500
Luca Pagano   Italy   93,500
Jarle Aasen   Norway   93,500
Tommy Pavlicek   Canada   87,500
Andreas Glannbro   Sweden   85,500
Torbjörn Jonson   Sweden   85,500
Ulrik Pedersen   Denmark   77,000
Peter Kalsen Petersen   Denmark   70,500
Gino Alacqua   Italy   70,000
Alexander Kravchenko   Russia   68,000
Rolf Slotboom   Holland   64,000
Christoffer Thorsen   Norway   64,000
Magnus Hansen   Denmark   60,500
Søren Jensen   Denmark   58,500
Runar Runarsson   Iceland   56,000
Christian Grundtvig   Denmark   54,500
Sigbjørn Mortueit   Norway   47,800
Erik Veld   Holland   46,000
Michael Eriksson   Sweden   32,000
Kristian Pedersen   Denmark   28,000
Severin Hovde   Norway   27,200

By the way, please note among those Mr Luca Pagano, his presence on the list meaning that he is the first person ever to cash eight times in an EPT. I'm obviously voting for Trond to win it though; take your picks now!Morning all, welcome back for what is quite obviously if you were paying attention yesterday now Day 3 of the Scandinavian Open/ Pokerstars EPT Copenhagen. We have, of course, just 39 players left owing to the dramatic triple bubbling attempts last night, and will be playing down to an eight-handed final table today come what may, so Jen and I are praying for a massive explosion of the field resulting in an early hometime looking forward to a leisurely day of world class poker. Join us at Casino Copenhagen at 2pm Scandie/ 1pm UK time.

Chip counts for our Remaining Contenders, courtesy of the lovely Mad Harper:

Rasmus Hede Nielsen   Denmark   295,500
Joris Jaspers   Holland   294,800
Johan Lund   Sweden   290,500
Patrik Andersson   Sweden   268,500
Jospeh Serock   USA   265,000
Jan Sørensen   Denmark   173,500
Ed de Haas   Holland   167,500
Timothy Vance   USA   154,000
Peter Eastgate   Denmark   154,000
Trond Erik Eidsvig   Norway   149,500
Simon Dørslund   Denmark   148,500
Thomas Christiansen   Denmark   145,500
Nicolas Dervaux   France   143,500
Miikka Samuli Mustonen   Finland   131,000
Daniel Ryan   USA   129,000
Michael Marek   Czech Republic   111,000
Henrik Rune   Denmark   105,500
Martin Bjerring Hansen   Denmark   105,000
Allan Bække   Denmark   95,500
Luca Pagano   Italy   93,500
Jarle Aasen   Norway   93,500
Tommy Pavlicek   Canada   87,500
Andreas Glannbro   Sweden   85,500
Torbjörn Jonson   Sweden   85,500
Ulrik Pedersen   Denmark   77,000
Peter Kalsen Petersen   Denmark   70,500
Gino Alacqua   Italy   70,000
Alexander Kravchenko   Russia   68,000
Rolf Slotboom   Holland   64,000
Christoffer Thorsen   Norway   64,000
Magnus Hansen   Denmark   60,500
Søren Jensen   Denmark   58,500
Runar Runarsson   Iceland   56,000
Christian Grundtvig   Denmark   54,500
Sigbjørn Mortueit   Norway   47,800
Erik Veld   Holland   46,000
Michael Eriksson   Sweden   32,000
Kristian Pedersen   Denmark   28,000
Severin Hovde   Norway   27,200

By the way, please note among those Mr Luca Pagano, his presence on the list meaning that he is the first person ever to cash eight times in an EPT. I'm obviously voting for Trond to win it though; take your picks now!

We're here at the casino but there is absolutely no sign of them starting on time. Currently on the big screen in the press room - Thomas Kremser giving some sort of pep talk to the dealers. Watch this space!

I thought just now that all the remaining players were surrounded by some kind of Kremser-generated protective forcefield of invisibility, but in fact they have moved today from the ballroom to the casino. Never fear, there shall be updates! Any minute now.

Oh yes, and the final table will be 9 players, not 8, like I said. Sorry.

Actually, the cards have suddenly hit the air - we're off on Day Two - playing to the all-important final now that that pesky business of making the money is out of the way.  And here's what they could win (I feel like a gameshow host):


1  DKK6,220,488  €834,590

2  DKK3,521,429  €472,463

3  DKK2,045,381  €274,425

4  DKK1,560,394  €209,355

5  DKK1,286,270  €172,576

6  DKK1,012,147  €135,798

7  DKK801,283  €107,507

8  DKK569,333  €76,386

9-10  DKK347,926  €46,680

11-12  DKK274,123  €36,779

13-14  DKK210,864  €28,291

15-16  DKK147,605  €19,804

17-24  DKK115,975  €15,560

25-32  DKK84,346  €11,316

33-40  DKK63,259  €8,487

And players have wasted exactly no time in getting themselves involved, and in many cases, OUT.

First out was Mr Severin Hovde - I'm afraid I didn't see the hand, I just heard a bunch of clapping and saw him putting his coat on. Sorry.

Next, an incredibly lucky outdraw for yesterday's Crazy Man, Mr Soren Jensen - all in in with 9c Qs against Ulrik Pedersen's Ad Qd, with all the sighing and huffing you might expect would accompany that, the board comes a Jensen-friendly 9s 8s 2s 2d Ks. Crazy Man is surprisingly subdued, merely staring wildly, with his wild crazy eyes.

Also OUT is the must-say-not-very-polite-to-innocent-updaters Alex Kravchenko, with 6d Ad against the 5c 5s of the dude being abducted below, French qualifier Nicolas Dervaux.
Board - 5h Qh Ks 4h 7d

God help us, Tournament Mouths Rolf Slotboom and Tim Vance are on the same table.

Much to the chagrin of Dana, previous EPT winner Trond Eidsvig has just gone OUT:

A pile of brown 5k chips was in front of Joris Jaspers (top picture) which represented the raise he'd made to around 110k over the top of Trond's bet of 45k.  Action on Trond, who was thinking hard about whether this Tc 9c 9d flop was the one he was going to bet his tournament life on...  eventually he made the call!
Trond showed:  Ad Th
Joris showed: Jd Qd

Standing up and requesting a Ten, in spite of being obviously pleased that he hadn't run into something monstrous (although it was still not a done deal as you can see by the title), he got instead a 8h and a 2c...

Some excited Dutch railers (I imagine) jumped up and down and one of them said, "No f-ing way!!!" but yes, way - a really really big stack for Jaspers and one sad Norwegian.

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THE SORRY DEMISE OF TABLE 2

Actually it's not really that bad, I just thought I'd give it a dramatic title for fun.

Ulrik Pedersen shoves several times in fairly quick succession; eventually he is called by Rasmus Nielsen.

Pedersen -  Aspades Js
Nielsen - Pedersen makes a little noise like "owwwww" as he turns over Jc Jh

Board - 2h 6c 5c 3c 2s

And with that we are down to 32; table 2 is now broken, and we are four tables, yes we are.

A big hand between Peter Eastgate and Henrik Rune, which I only manage to catch the dwelling bit of - the flop is 5d 5s Kc and Eastgate has bet 16k; Rune (once again may I say, Danish names are AWESOME) has raised to 37k, and Eastgate is dwelling. Actually he dwells so long that Rune has lost interest in the hand by the time Eastgate folds, and he's paying attention to something else entirely as the chips are pushed towards him.

Rolf Slotboom is OUT - in a hand involving the two chattiest players still in the tournament, one (Tim Vance) busted the other (Rolf) leaving this EPT 50% quieter...

Vance had raised on the button to 14,500 and after a minute or so found Mr. Slotboom pushing all in over the top.  He stood up, sat down, said, "I don't have a very strong hand, sir..." and then called the extra 45k or so.

Tim Vance:  Kh Qh
Rolf Slotboom: Td Jh

Vance was looking happy, but Rolf said, "Not over yet!  I am very live!  Very live!"

It wasn't looking too great for the Dutch player after the flop came Kc Kd 2s, and the rest was Ts 2h - housing up the American.  They are pictured below during the tense will-he-call/won't-he-call moment, and then both looking nearly hysterically happy as Rolf shook hands and made his cheerful exit.

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MULTIPLE SIMULTANEOUS ALL-IN THEN CRIPPLED THEN ALL-IN AGAIN CRAZINESS!

Miika Mustonen of Finland (just said that because it sounds like Tom of Finland and I think that's funny) and Runar (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1181) Runarsson (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1181) find themselves on their backs, Runarsson holding Ad Qd and Mustonen holding, um, 5d Kd.

Board - 8c 9c Tc Jc 2s and Runarsson doubles up, leaving Mustonen with around 10k.


Meanwhile, on the next table, Erik Veld and a gentleman whose number we can't see but looks a bit like a guy we knew at college called Vadim so until we can verify his actual name we're calling him Vadim, are on their backs.
Veld - Ac Qs
Vadim -  Ahrt Kh
Board - Jd Tc 5h 4c 2c - Vadim keeps saying, "I have the King, the King is mine," just in case the dealer thinks they're splitting or the A-K was Veld's or something, and he doubles up, leaving Veld (below in the grey hoodie) with around 20k. Ouch.



So, very next hand, in a not massively unexpected way, both Mustonen and Veld move their microstacks in. At the same time. I have to write very fast, and the camera guys look like they might explode. Anyway.


Erik Veld has Kd Td and gets himself dominatey-called (in fact he re-raises all in but no-one else is up for it) by Henrik RUne's Ad Kc. Board - 7h Aspades 7c 4c Jc meaning that Erik Veld is OUT.


Meanwhile Miika Mustonen, however, finds Ac Th and is called by Thomas Christiansen's Kh Jd - the board is 9h 6h 7d 2d Qh meaning that he's doubled up, woo, to like 20k, or like 30k with the antes and things. Go, microstack!

UPDATE:

Vadim's name is actually Christoffer Thorsen.

On the TV table, the action does seem, mainly, to be Kristian Pedersen moving in, repeatedly.  He did manage to double up through Johan Lund with Aspades Ahrt though (Lund's Kc Tc flopping a tension-producing flush draw but failing to improve).
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Nearly all-in call on Table Andersson...

Patrik Andersson raised preflop to 15k.  Then Peter Petersen re-raised to 45k.  Back to Andersson.... and contrary to what all the spectators seemed to think would happen, he moved in, for 135k.  A dwell ensued, but we forgive Petersen because he was torturing himself with an actual decision - eventually thinking better of it and passing Js Jd face up...

Pictured:  Patrik stacking chips, but mainly Runar Runarsson's head.

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Oh crap, we just bokked him. SNOOPS!

Luca Pagano is OUT with Td 6d against Martin Hansen's Q-2 on the turn of a Qd 3d 6s 8h board. 2h on the river and the Beagle Bok is complete.

Some chip counts:

Martin Hansen - 277,000
Johan Lund - 195,000
Kristian Pedersen - 186,000
Nicolas Dervaux - 117,000
Michael Marek - 89,500
Magnus Hansen - 108,000

Results so far today in list form courtesy of Mad at Pokerstars.com:

28th  Luca Pagano
29th  Erik Veld
30th  Christian Grundtvig
31st  Rolf Slotboom
32nd  Peter Eastgate
33rd  Ulrik Pedersen
34th  Peter Petersen
35th  Torbjom Jonson
36th  Severn Hovde
37th  Trond Eidsvig
38th  Alexander Kravchenko

24 left now, and they're balancing tables somehow.

Last out was Henrik Rune, who shoved with A-8 and was INSTAcalled by Soren "Crazy Man" Jensen. Before the river of the eight-less board even hit the felt, Crazy Man was already on his mobile, shouting a bunch of stuff in Danish and also "YES! YES! YES!" in English, and doing a little dance in most ungentlemanly fashion. Even poor old Henrik Rune thinks this is pretty funny, while the dealer is quietly pushing his chips into Crazy Man's stack.

Chipcounts from the players who still have their ID numbers in front of them (will get Christiansen too if he's still in when I get back to the room ;)  )


Martin Bjerring Hansen - 223,000
Nicolas Dervaux - 145,000
Joseph Serock - 195,000
Tim Vance - 396,000
Christoffer Thorson - 84,000
Gino Alacqua - 73,000
Johan Lund - 238,000
Soren Jensen - 258,000
Patrik Andersen - 250,000
Danny Ryan - 280,000
Joris Jaspers - 400,000
Rasmus Nielsen - 435,000
Peter Petersen - 202,000

Finished-close-to-but-not-in-the-money-er Leroy Soesman, overheard at the rail:

"You never scratch your ass when you go all in? That's how you win. You scratch your ass and smell your finger. That's why I went out yesterday."

Vadim-a-like Christoffer Thorsen is OUT.

Johan Lund raises to 23k and he re-raises all in. Much calling, obviously, as Lund has  Aspades Ahrt.

Most unfortunately for him, Thorsen has Ks Kd.

Board - 9c Qs Qd 2s 7c

Mr Tim Vance of St Louis, MO, would like it to be known that he loves his daughter Nancy.

This young guy, who looks like he has fake marionette legs but I think that's just the angle I took the photo at, is OUT. He ran his Jh Jd into Jan Sorensen's (also below, looking angry, which we think is just his default expression)  Ahrt Ad, poor chap.


Board - 5c 7s 2h Ac 8s


By the way Jen informs me that Marek qualified online for $109, so when he's thought about it for a while he probably won't be as massively sad as he appears to be in the photo. :(

Runar Runarsson has doubled up with A-6 against A-T and a giant and ungentlemanly "YESSSSS!" when the Six hit.

Cagey Crazy Three-way Raisey!

Johan Lund raises to 22k preflop.  Neighbour Soren Jensen (of hallway-screeching fame) minraises.  Sirens go off somewhere, silently, but Joseph Serock doesn't appear to hear them... he counts down his own stack before raising to 105,000.  Lund gets out of the way as if the other two were both skateboarding towards him on the pavement and then it's the insta-all-in/insta-call of two people with...
Soren Jensen:  Ad Aspades
Joseph Serock:  Ahrt Ac

No flush nastiness and they reset and start playing less interesting hands.

Tommy Pavlicek moves in from the small blind and gets himself called by Ed de Haas on the big blind.

Pavlicek - Jh Qs
de Haas - Ad 3d

Board - 6d Ks Kc Jc 7s

Double-up for the young Canadian.

Seating Plan! 

Name                Country              Table    Seat
Kristian Pedersen    Denmark    3    1
Simon Dørslund    Denmark    3    2
Tommy Pavlicek    Canada    3    3
Ed de Haas    Holland    3    4
Jan Sørensen    Denmark    3    5
Patrik Andersson    Sweden    3    6
Jarle Aasen    Norway    3    7

Magnus Hansen    Denmark    4    1
Thomas Christiansen    Denmark    4    2
Peter Kalsen Petersen    Denmark    4    3
Runar Runarsson    Iceland    4    4
Rasmus Hede Nielsen    Denmark    4    5
Joris Jaspers    Holland    4    6
Daniel Ryan    USA    4    7

Martin Bjerring Hansen    Denmark    TV    1
Nicolas Dervaux    France    TV    2
Jospeh Serock    USA    TV    3
Timothy Vance    USA    TV    4
Gino Alacqua    Italy    TV    5
Johan Lund    Sweden    TV    6
Søren Jensen    Denmark    TV    7

Now you know who's battling whom for one of the coveted Final Eight spots... where the money reaches the Millions of Kroner...

Also Thomas Christiansen is OUT. Didn't see the hand, I'm afraid, just managed to take a photo REALLY CLOSE to his face as he was leaving.

And just before the dinner break, a HUGE hand between Rasmus Nielsen and Joris Jaspers. Joris was chip leader before the start of the hand, and Rasmus was chip leader by the end of it - somehow they got it in with Qs Qd (Joris) and Ad 7h (Rasmus).

Board - 9d 5h 8s 3c - wait for it - Ahrt

Rasmus has around 450k now.

TV Table Chip Counts (they're almost, but not quite, ready to restart).

Johan Lund - 381,000
Tim Vance - 324,000
Joseph Serock - 303,000
Soren Jensen - 260,000
Martin Bjerring Hansen - 179,000
Gino Alacqua - 84,000
Nicolas Dervaux - 81,000

Martin Bjerring Hansen is OUT!  Suddenly - like so - He raised preflop, and found Tim Vance re-raising... I think it was a push for a huge pot - around 400k after Hansen called for his entire stack showing Ts Td.
Vance showed: Ahrt Kh and was muttering something about being owed, "I deserve it..."

Well, it came straight away:  Aspades 7d Jc
Turn: 4d   ("Just not a Ten - anything but a Ten," reminds Vance)
River: Jd

And something seems to have given way inside the extrovert American - he's singing now.  Singing while he stacks the chips, singing through the next few hands - including some ironic-style lyrics:  "You're driving me mad...driving me mad..."  In between which he re-raises Gino Alacqua all in (no call) and then bestows this gem of advice on his silent adversaries:  "Ask and you shall receive!"

Full dinner break chip counts from Madam Harper and her most excellent Pokerstars slaves:

Name    Country    Table    Seat    New ID    Chips dinner break
Kristian Pedersen    Denmark    3    1    301    99000
Simon Dørslund    Denmark    3    2    302    320000
Tommy Pavlicek    Canada    3    3    303    210000
Ed de Haas    Holland    3    4    304    245000
Jan Sørensen    Denmark    3    5    305    127000
Patrik Andersson    Sweden    3    6    306    235000
Jarle Aasen    Norway    3    7    307    94000
Magnus Hansen    Denmark    4    1    401    229000
Sigbjørn Mortueit    Norway    4    2    402    181000
Runar Runarsson    Iceland    4    3    403    175000
Rasmus Hede Nielsen    Denmark    4    4    404    458000
Joris Jaspers    Holland    4    5    405    209000
      4    6       
Daniel Ryan    USA    4    7    407    410000
Martin Bjerring Hansen    Denmark    TV    1    TV1    179000
Nicolas Dervaux    France    TV    2    TV2    80000
Jospeh Serock    USA    TV    3    TV3    303000
Timothy Vance    USA    TV    4    TV4    324000
Gino Alacqua    Italy    TV    5    TV6    84000
Johan Lund    Sweden    TV    6    TV7    376000
Søren Jensen    Denmark    TV    7    TV8    260000

Gino Alacqua pushes all in preflop with Kc 5c for his 70-something thousand...

Soren Jensen calls quickly, no fuss with Ac 9c...

Flop:  7h 7s 9d
Turn: 9h
River: totally irrelevant

So I am afraid we've lost the besuited Italian, as Jensen vigorously punches the air and chants his own name loudly.  I am not making this up.  He was saying it in a kind of hoarse stage whisper, probably as a kind of nod to modesty as he's being filmed. 

Tommy Pavlicek has been getting jiggy, first moving all in from the small blind to Simon Dorslund's button raise, thus making him fold, and then limping in on the button next hand and stealing the pot with a chunky bet on the 3h Ad Ks flop.

Runar Runarsson is OUT!

Peter Petersen raised on the button to 28,000, but walked into a world of raising as Runarsson moved all-in on the small blind, and Rasmus Nielsen in the big blind either called or raised again (a flurry of cameras now block our view unless we're already accidentally in prime viewing position).  Either way he got it heads up with the all-in player.

Nielsen showed:  Ad Jd
Runarsson showed: Kd Tc

The board came: er... no paint, no straight, no split so -

Exit for the 18th place finisher and even more chips for a media-swarmed Nielsen, as you can see.

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Also now Magnus Hansen is OUT in 17th place, meaning that we are down to just 16 players, and this is now Hansen-free tournament. They're redrawing for the last two tables right now.

Everyone on the non-TV table apart from one who had his back to me:

Soren Jensen - 260k
Tim Vance - 620k
Danny Ryan - 500k
Joseph Serock - 205k
Patrik Andersson - 211k
Tommy Pavlicek - 145k
Jarle Aasen - 185k
Kristian Pedersen -- had his back to me

Nicolas Dervaux finds himself all in against Ed De Haas, with A-K against De Haas' A-T. Board - K-Q-Q-7-T and De Haas is crippled.

Just a few hands later De Haas moves in and again he is dominated by Dervaux.

De Haas - Ad 9d
Dervaux - Ac Qc

Board - A de/der-lightful 6h 8s Ks Tc Jc and De Haas is OUT in 16th place.

Joris Jaspers exits in 15th place (DKK147,605  €19,804)...

He moved in over the top of Johan Lund who had a bit of a decision with his Ad Qc... something like 200k in his stack.  He surprised the commentators by relatively quickly making the call...
Jaspers held Aspades Ts which was in bad shape - worse after the Ac Qh 3s flop.  No help in the 9c 7h which followed on, so we're down to 14.

Chipcounts and whatnot from the redraw break, courtesy of the Pokerstars chipcounting elves:

Rasmus Hede Nielsen    Denmark    TV    6    778,000    
Timothy Vance    USA    1    4    563,000    
Daniel Ryan    USA    1    6    450,000    
Johan Lund    Sweden    TV    8    427,000    
Simon Dørslund    Denmark    TV    5    310,000    
Søren Jensen    Denmark    1    8    285,000    
Patrik Andersson    Sweden    1    1    267,000    
Magnus Hansen    Denmark    TV    3    246,000    
Jospeh Serock    USA    1    5    225,000    
Tommy Pavlicek    Canada    1    7    192,000    
Joris Jaspers    Holland    TV    4    187,000    
Ed de Haas    Holland    TV    7    139,000    
Kristian Pedersen    Denmark    1    3    139,000    
Nicolas Dervaux    France    TV    1    134,000    
Jan Sørensen    Denmark    TV    2    130,000    
Jarle Aasen    Norway    1    2    69,000

An intriguing hand from the TV table -

Simon Dorslund and his pink hoodie open-shove the 6c 6h Js flop. Johan Lund, as those of you watching the EPT Live will already have become bored with, dwells for an unnecessarily long time - so long that I really would quite like to know what he had. He passes.

14th place is Joseph Serock, falling at the hands of fellow but much louder, more in-your-face, excitable American Timothy Vance.

A hand prior to this, Vance had made up the small blind and Serock had raised him off with an extra 30k.  So when Vance limped on the button for 12k (not something seen all that often here so far) and Serock made it 50k to go, he clearly didn't feel like backing down again.  He called.
Flop: Ts 8s 9c  Serock calmly moves the rest of his stack in, and Vance instacalls.
Serock:  Aspades Jh
Vance:  Ahrt Th

The younger player sits almost impassively, saying not a word as Vance yells, "DEUCE! DEUCE!" as the turn comes the 8h - the river is the 4d - apparently close enough to a Deuce to bring forth a loud, "YEES!" from Vance and send the blue-shirted Serock to the rail.  Pictured - Vance leaping from his seat (again). 

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Next to Joseph Serock (in blue) is Danny Ryan - another American, but of the same low-key attitude as his neighbour.  It looks like contrary to some experiences we've had updating in the US, over in Europe the young American players making the transition from online to live do so with a low-blood-pressure, dignified professionalism, while it's the slightly older ones giving them a reputation for perhaps a tad less self control...

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Just after Dana got back (isn't it always the way) big action on the Feature Table:

Jan Sorensen raises preflop and gets put to the test by the all-in move of Magnus Hansen.  He sweats about it for a bit, obviously not too happy with how this has gone, but eventually commits the rest of his stack with Ac Js.  Hansen has the dominating Ahrt Qh, though.
Flop: Td Tc 9c
Turn: 7h  So there's still hope for the win, the split or perhaps for the power to go out in the building, alarms go off and the hand declared dead an hour later when everyone's been evacuated...
River:  6d

None of those things happens and Jan Sorensen finishes 13th winning DKK210,864 ( €28,291)

15 minutes pass and nothing happens on the non-TV table. Then something happens! Or almost happens!

Tim Vance makes it 40k or so from the button, and big blind Danny Ryan says, "I can't fold this, I'm going all in. Nothing personal." It's about 200k more, looks like.

So Vance is the centre of attention; lots of people suddenly appear from nowhere and try to stand in front of me even though I've been standing there watching nothing happen for ages. Sigh.

Again he asks whether he can turn over his hand before he decides whether to call. He's told it's a ten-round penalty. He is considering it; the decider seems to be that he will get absolutely no attention during the ten rounds he has to sit out, plus the blinds are now 6k/12k/2k (sorry, SOMEONE'S hijacked our tournament clock) and would therefore eat all the chips he'd be taking off of Ryan anyway, should he theoretically win the hand. He passes. Double sigh.

Ryan shows him the Ac. "Oh, you had me beat anyway," says Vance. ???

Photos to follow, battery is dead and recharging...

Big Action on Table Ryan... involving him (which is why I named it that...)

Firstly, Kristian Pedersen raised preflop to 45k, and Danny Ryan re-raised five big blue stacks (aka 100k).  There was a pause, during which there was some theatrical dwelling by Pedersen - but I only know it was theatrical because he'd moved all-in and was called in the blink of an eye only to show Aspades Ad.
Ryan showed: Kc Tc

Flop:  2d 9d 8d  Now Tim Vance, not actually involved in this 420k pot started calling for 'Diamonds!' which made little sense until after the blank turn and river - 2h 9s - shipped the double through to Pedersen and knocked Ryan's stack to just 90k.  Then Vance elaborated:  "Urgh!  I would have won!  I had Queen-Seven of Diamonds!  Did you see that?"  to any and everyone on the rail.  Meanwhile not a word from new short stack Danny Ryan - he just tapped the table and accepted defeat. 
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Next hand Ryan is the small blind, and when it folds to him, he shoves.  Well, this might have been completely expected, but big blind Tommy Pavlicek thinks for a good while before calling.  It might have helped that Ryan said the traditional, "Well, just call and send me home or give me a few chips..." but he went for it with Jh 6h.  Interesting.
Ryan had 9h 9c.
No outdraw later and he's still in it.   

Ooh, ooooooh, something happened!

We look up at the live feed to see that the cameras on the non-tv table where there are probably like billions of chips in the middle (ok, possibly not billions, but easily the biggest hand we've seen so far, and way way more than the 36k that the live feed is claiming it is). I leg it into the other room and elbow my way to somewhere near-ish the table.

What has happened is this:

Kristian Pedersen in the small blind has made it 50k. Tim Vance in the big blind has made it 150k. Pedersen has called.

Flop - Qh Js 5c

Pedersen checks. Vance bets 100k. Pedersen goes all in for 260k. Vance talks for 10 minutes. Then he calls.

Pedersen - Ac Ks
Vance - pocket Nines

Turn - 6c
River - 6s

And now Pedersen is OUT and there will be no shutting up Mr Vance...

And Another One's Gone!

Tommy Pavlicek gets it all in with 8h 8s against, yep, Tim Vance who gave him a spin preflop with Ad Td... It wasn't for peanuts either - it looked like Pavlicek's stack was around 250k (although I could be mistaken).  He might have already been donning his coat as he saw the flop come 9-Q-J... and sure enough the turn was a King making the broadway straight for the American.  Pavlicek picks up DKK274,123  €36,779 for his 11th place.

The feed from that table, incidentally, has no sound but we get much the same effect from watching the gesticulating airpunching.

LEADERWATCH

Tim Vance has around 1.4 MILLION (MILLLLLLIIIIIIOOOOOOONNNNN!!!)

Next biggest stack is Rasmus Nielsen with around 760k.

Name    Country    Table    Seat    chips end L22
Patrik Andersson    Sweden    1    1    204,000
Jarle Aasen    Norway    1    2    140,000
Timothy Vance    USA    1    4    1,421,000
Daniel Ryan    USA    1    6    192,000
Johan Lund    Sweden    1    8    179,000
Nicolas Dervaux    France    TV    1    204,000
Magnus Hansen    Denmark    TV    3    447,000
Simon Dørslund    Denmark    TV    5    468,000
Rasmus Hede Nielsen    Denmark    TV    6    537,000
Søren Jensen    Denmark    TV    8    820,000

Double up for Nicolas Dervaux!

Dorslund raises from the cut-off and Dervaux really puts on a proper show before shoving with his Aces. Dorslund calls.

Dervaux - Ac Aspades
Dorslund - Jd Ks

Board - Qd Qc 6d Ad 7d

Final Table But Not The Final Eight!

With the bust-out of Jaale Aasen in 10th place for DKK347,926  (€46,680)....

Awkward-stacked Danny Ryan considered on the button for a while, before opting for the push.  Fold to big blind Aasen, who called all-in quickly with Ts Td.  It was bad timing - Ryan had the Aspades Ac.
The board came 2d 4h Qc Ks Jh.... so they're reforming on one table only to eliminate one of their number...

Pictured, Ryan counting his 350kish in chips... talking to fellow stripe afficionado Johan Lund.

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SO this is the lineup of the final nine - with counts.  They are just restarting...

1. Rasmus Hede Nielsen 785,000
2. Tim Vance  1,404,000
3. Danny Ryan  368,000
4. Patrik Andersson  183,000
5. Simon Dørslund  311,000
6. Nicolas Dervaux  380,000
7. Johan Lund 167,000
8. Soren Jensen 518,000
9. Magnus Hansen 432,000

ALL IN, enthuse the commentaries...

Kh Qh for Danny Ryan who shipped it in preflop -  but Johan Lund in the big blind picked up Ad Aspades and what to do there but call? 

Flop: 7d Jh 9d
Turn: 4h

Now that is exciting... the crowd has an equal number of Ryan and Lund supporters and all their breath was collectively held as the river came...

River: 3h

A disappointed Lund, therefore, finishes in 9th place, winning DKK347,926  (€46,680) and the rest of them are coming back tomorrow...

Looks like we are DONE, and there is a rumour that there's a party going on somewhere... So we are not massively sure what time we'll be back tomorrow, but for the moment we are sticking a fork in all of this and heading in the direction of hopefully some booze.

Until tomorrow,

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