Bottom Pair Good

In a blind on blind battle Stefan Deutsch opens to 625 with Tom Finneran flatting behind, two to the flop of 2hQsKd Deutsch leads 600 & call, 4d check/check and when the board paired on the river with Kh both players once again checked the action as the original raiser shows 2c9c which is good as Finnerans cards head to the muck.

Overbet the Pot

Missing the pre flop action I see Ross Johnson involved in a hand, board reading KdJcQd 2,200 or so in the middle having checked his action to the other player in the hand his opponent asked how much he had left 13,500 was what he had, betting 7,000 into the pot Johnson was in the middle of tweeting a hand before he decided what to do.

Putting all the chips in the middle he was met with a quick call, Johnson held KhJs for two pair but was in bad shape up against Ah10c for the flopped straight, needing the board to pair with a King/Jack on the turn or river but it wasn't to be as the board ran out 3s7h.

Ross Johnson @RoscoJohnson

And bust Top and bottom vs a flopped straight. Wasn't a normal pot....

Split Dinner Break

Tables 30-51 will now leave the tournament area & go on a 1 hour dinner break, players from tables 1-29 will continue on with blinds now running 200/400/50

Eliminations So Far

Lars Zeulner

Nils Renneborg

Grzegorz Kolodziej

Julian Niquille

Marc Detaille

Anthony Rafter

Verbraeken Jorden

Niall Murphy

Alexis Bauby

Ngoc Lam Nguyen

Frederique Brelot

Ivo Schoofs

Colin Johnson

Level 5

Players retake their seats as we move into blinds 150/300/50 clock reads 445 players with 436 remaining.

Break

Players once again leave for a 20 minute break.

Elimination

Alexis Bauby is one of the most recent eliminations and I get the hand details off his table mate Gerard Harraghy, flop read KQ10 two spades Baudy called a bet when the turn fell X spade he open jammed the flop only for his opponent to call holding three Queens vs his JJ.

Sneaky Backdoor Draw

Table 15 saw Hannu Korva raise to 600 from the CO Max Silver on the button flats as does Franco Munafo from the BB.

Flop s3d8hKd Munafo leads into the pot for 1,000 & Korva raises to 3,000 with Silver side stepping the action, flatted from BB. Kd turn lead the Munafo to now check call 5,000 as we went onto the river card 7d, checking his action once more it was up to Korva to figure out how much he could bet that would get called 8,000 was the figure & met with a quick call, Jd8d turned over by Korva for the backdoor flush draw while his opponent flashed the  Kh

Glasses

Wigs

Level 4

Blinds now running 100/200/25

Unique Players

With 438 players registered at the moment we are on coarse to hit similar numbers of unique players as we had last year with 6 levels still for late entrants, 492 unique players played the event in 2012 with the addition of a re-entry that took the number to 590 total.