Expekt.com Norwegian Championships ME: Day 3 - At A Glance

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Bjørn Andre Hovden just shoved his smallish stack into the middle but ran into the big slick of Arne Kristian Falkenhaug.

In bad shape with K2, he was looking to spike a deuce and the first card out obliged a 2 hitting the felt to a mighty nordic roar from Bjorn. Arne is a tough nut though, despite his comical "train driver" hat and with just 3 outs to hit now, he nonetheless managed to river an ace, sending Bjorn spiralling out of the comp with another viking roar.

Arne "I'll be a rack"



I've posted pics of him before but here's Bjorn again!

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After that monster pot, here is a shot of our new chip leader, bespectacled Swede Marcus Pettersson.



Apologies for the fact that 30% of the picture is a random backside.

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And once again, a small lull in proceedings proves to simply be the calm before the storm as an action pot develops.

Stig Rune Kveen, holding called Thomas Middleton's push with . Let's race them cards!

The flop came to give Stig the advantage holding the nut flush draw and 2 overs...

an on the turn meant an A or 6 was now also good and finally a arrived on the river to polish off Thomas, meaning...

Thomas Middlethon is OUT, eliminated in 14th spot, winning £2,165

Good game sir, 13 combatants remain...(2 brits still!)

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Ian Frazer Doubles Up!

Three way to a flop after a raise pre to 42k by Kjetil Skau, called by Marcus and then by Ian Frazer.  I think Frazer bet out, was raised by Skau, and then moved in.  Call!

Frazer shows: 
Skau shows: 

Turn and river:  , at which point Frazer can't help it, he yells "Come ON!" and then rushes over to thank Marcus:  "Thank you for calling preflop!  You priced me in!"
Up to half a mil and looking like he's going to remain a thorn in the Norwegians' collective side.

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The demise of Jim Jakobsen who just fell in 11th place, winning £3,031

First off, it passed to him on the small blind and he popped in a raise to 100k.  Clearly disappointed when big blind Erik Borkvik moved in for 119k, he had to call with his , but found Borkvik holding .  This eventually turned into the nut flush on the river, and knocked him down to around 200k.

Then he got it in almost immediately preflop against Borkvik again - this time with against .  Usually a good spot, but not with a 6-3-3 flop, and so we're on the FINAL TABLE BUBBLE........

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ALERT!

Sick pot just played out!

Stokke is short and has been shoving farily often. One more shove, this time was flat called by Stig Rune Kveen, who found Daniel Platten moving in behind him. He called pretty much instantly as you do with Aces!

Daniel:

Tim:

A T came on the flop but an A on the turn was decisive and left Tim and Daniel drawing dead, meaning...

Tim Stokke is OUT, eliminated in 13th spot, winning £3,031 and...

Daniel Platten is OUT, eliminated in 12th spot, winning £3,031




Tim Stokke hopes for a miracle, in vain...



Platten gets flattened "what was I supposed to do!!!"



Stig calmly sips his drink as his two vanquished opponents shakes hands behind his back...

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Stig calmly sips his drink as his two vanquished opponents shakes hands behind his back...

For any of you who are wondering why they were holding auditions for the re-make of the exorcist in the background....no, no no no! The girl who looks like she may maim someone at any moment is in fact Jen who was snapped looking very hungry. Jen's sort of like a mogwai from gremlins, except she differs in that you have to feed her after midnight or she mutates into some sort of "timorous beasty" - ARGHHHHHH!!!!

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And falling in 10th place, winning £3,031 is Arne Kristian Falkenhaug

Well, all ten couldn't make the final - and the one to be eliminated was Arne, who pushed all in for 201,500 over the top of Sondre Barlien's preflop raise to 90k.  He shook his head, ummed and ahed and generally looked uncomfortable, before making his mind up and firmly setting down the call.
Barlien: 
Falkenhaug: 

Flop: 
Turn:
River:

And that was all she wrote.  This was actually the last hand before a scheduled break in the Main Event, so it's just going to be overnight instead.  The Final Table starts at 5pm tomorrow.

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People may think I exaggerated in my last post but here is the initial picture, jsut prior to Jen exploding...



And this photo was taken 3 seconds later. Can you tell the difference, not sure I can...

Click to see full-size image.

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Well! With that elimination, we have reached the end of today's events for us and the players.

The final 9 have been determined and with 7 Norwegians, 1 Swede and 1 Englishman, we are guarenteed to see an exciting final.

We'll get exact chip counts shortly which we will of course post up in due course. Good luck to everyone tomorrow, especially Ian Frazer, the last remaining British hope. We hope you will join us for the commencement of the final tomorrow, which incidentally will start at the later time of 5pm

We'll see you then but for now from myself and Gizmo, sorry Jen...

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End of Day Chip Counts....the final table....

Barlien Sondre   11   8   1036000
Stig Rune Kveen   12   5   777500
Erik Borkvik   11   7   613000
Marcus Pettersson   12   7   602500
Ian Frazer   12   1   526500
Svein Arnesen   11   4   436000
Efraimsen Oyvind   11   2   423500
Kjetil Skau   12   4   422000
Tage Almark   12   9   308000

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