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Blinds: 15,000-30,000 (ante: 3,000)
3.05pm: Break time
As the level ends players take a 15 minute break.
3pm: Annette looking dangerous
Obrestad bet 65,000 pre-flop which Woodward called for a 2â™ Qâ™ 6â™ flop. Obrestad checked her cards again before betting 83,000. Woodward moved all-in and Obrestad called showing a king high flush with Kâ™ 4â™ . Woodward called showing Q♣ 9♣ . The turned helped him, a 9♦ giving him outs, but the Jâ™ on the river wasn’t one of them. Obrestad doubles up.
2.55pm: Roy rumbled
Alain Roy is out, the latest victim of the juggernaut that is the Russian Mikhail Tulchinskiy. After some small pre-flop raising, Roy shoved for 750,000 and Tulchinskiy called, building a pot of close to two million. Tulchinskiy had Qâ™ Q♦ and Roy had A♣ K♦ . The board came 6♣ J♥ 10â™ and Roy said: “Bring a queen for my friend,” obviously giving him straight draw outs. But the turn was 8♣ and the river 3♦ and Tulchinskiy turned to his vociferous rail, including Alex Kravchenko, to celebrate what might be the claiming of the chip lead.
2.50pm: Morozov raising
Morozov backs off another pot having raised 70,000 pre-flop. Naalden then raised to 235,000 making it 165K to call. But Morozov backs down.
2.45pm: Annette still here
Annette Obrestad just re-rasied all-in behind a Morozov bet pre-flop. Morozov was having none of it and passed.
2.40pm: A quick look at what’s in store today…
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2.30pm: Lacay and Naalden duel over massive pot
As news comes through that Olivier Douce is the 23rd place finisher, pocket eights vs pocket tens, a big hand develops between Lacay and Naalden on the feature table. Lacay started pre-flop with 75,000 which Naalden re-raised to 235,000 and the action was folded back to the Frenchman who calls for a K♦ 5♠6♥ flop. Naalden then bet 300,000 which Lacay re-raised to 700,000. Naalden then pushed all-in, getting people on their feet before Lacay passed. A 2.7 million pot costing Lacay an even million.
2.25pm: When is a redraw not a redraw
When it’s what they just did here. They’ve broken a table, moved a few folk around, and have counted the chips. The full official counts will be on the chip count page any minute.
2.15pm: Redraw
With 24 players remaining, we are condensing the field to three tables and there’s a redraw for the seats.
2.10pm: Danzer done
George Danzer got his final chips all in, and Eric Qu, of France took them of him. The details were very scarce, owing to a French-German scrum around the table, and it was the locals celebrating as one of their own, Qu, downed the German ShootingStar.
2.05pm: Lacay up again
Ami Barer’s tournament has ended. He shoved with J♣ 9♦ but didn’t like the speed with which Lacay called, showing A♥ K♥ . The board missed everyone. Lacay up to more than 2.3 million.
2.02pm: Lacay up
On a flop of 10♠Q♣ A♥ Ludovic Lacay bet 115,000 which Morozov called from the small blind. With a 9♥ on the turn Lacay bet again, making it 280,000 which Morozov eventually folded. Lacay up to 1.5 million.
2pm: Danzer damaged
George Danzer is flirting with elimination having just doubled up Sergio Castelluccio. They got it all in pre-flop and Danzer had K♣ 10♦ . Castelluccio had A♠Q♦ and the flop ran out 6♣ 2♠J♠Q♥ Q♣ which only favoured the Italian. Danzer is down to his last 200,000; Castelluccio is close to a million.
1.55pm: Barer back
Barer moves all in for exactly 350,000. He just lost a big pot to Daniel Zink and is looking for a recovery, but not here. No callers.
1.45pm: Obrestad obre-back
Annette Obrestad got it all in pre-flop with A♣ 8♦ against Ludovic Lacay’s 9♦ 9♥ . The flop was all spades: 5â™ 10â™ 7â™ , and the turn was also a spade, but it being Aâ™ gave Obrestad the lead. The river was Q♥ and Obrestad survives and doubles up to 800,000.
1.40pm: Three way action
A three way pot develops, with Patrick Wymann all-in. Peter Traply is involved, as is Eric Qu. With the board showing 6♦ J♣ 2â™ Jâ™ Qu bet enough to get Traply out of the way, and his 8♥ 8♣ was good to see off Wymann’s Qâ™ 7â™ .
1.30pm: Another level
And so, we’re into level 24. Annette Obrestad celebrates the increase in blinds by pilfering them with an all-in pre-flop shove. “I won a hand today!” she chimes. “Yessssssss.”