Charlie Coombs was the first to act and raised to 1,200. Kuljinder Sidhu called as did Sandro Taddei. The blinds both folded and we went to the flop with three players.
The dealer put out the first three cards
Coombs continued the pre-flop aggression with a bet of 1,800. Sidhu folded but the Irish pro wasn’t willing to give up just yet and called the bet.
The was the turn card and again Coombs bet, this time 3,700.
“How much?” Taddei asked raising his sunglasses. “I can’t see.”
A break was called and as the other players drifted away Taddei raised the bet to 9,000 leaving himself very few chips behind.
It looked like Coombs knew he was in trouble. A quick sigh and he folded.
Taddei showed him the . The turn had filled his gut shot straight draw and Taddei headed to the break declaring, “I should have flatted and waited for the river.”
Jan Przysucha must be a very happy man right now, he's just knocked out his compatriot Milan Tomasz Rabsz. Przysucha opened from the button and then called Rabsz' all in from the small blind and found himself in a dominating position.
Przysucha:
Rabsz:
The board teased the possibility of a split but it came in Przysucha's favour.
There were two more eliminations that happened in Level 6 prior to the break. The first happened when a preflop raising war between Nial Farrell in the small blind and Jamie Burland in the big resulted in the latter being all in for roughly 16,000. Burland was ahead with the , but he was flipping against Farrell's .
The flop was disaster for Burland as it paired Farrell's ace. Burland needed a queen to win the pot or running diamonds to chop, but the chop option disappeared wen the turn. Burland needed a queen on the river to survive, but it wasn't in the cards as the rolled off.
The other elimination came when Zsolt Vasvenszki got his stack of about 40,000 all in preflop holding and was well out in front of Kyle Maguire's . The Hungarian was primed to double into the chip lead, but the flop delivered a fatal blow by pairing Maguire's ace. The turn actually left Vasvenszki drawing dead, and after the was run out on the river for good measure, he watched as the stacks were verified before exiting the tournament floor.
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Nursing a stack of about twenty big blinds Jake Cody had raised from button on the previous hand for half his stacks. The statement was clear and he picked up the precious blinds and antes.
The next hand he raised smaller to just 1,700. The button called but Kyle Maguire raised to 4,000 from the small blind. The big blind folded and Cody, getting a massage at the table, nonchalantly dropped the rest of his chips over the line. He was all in.
The button folded and Maguire too had to fold to the aggression.
“You just love to play that game don’t you?” Maguire said.
We're into the final third of today's action. Just 17 players remain with a redraw when we hit 16. We're playing nine levels today so the tournament is scheduled to finish around 1.15am with a restart again at 2pm tomorrow.
Dermot Blain has been all in for his tournament life several times today but he's just won a big pot to him ticking along. Blain opened to 1,600 from the cutoff before Anaras Alekberovas made it 4,000 from the small blind. William Ranulf Dorey then cold four-bet in the big blind to 7,600 and Blain shoved for around 25,000 in total.
The Lithuanian quickly folded and Dorey made the call.
Blain:
Dorey:
The board ran out and Blain leaped above the 50,000 mark.
was the turn card and again Coombs bet, this time 3,700.
. The turn had filled his gut shot straight draw and Taddei headed to the break declaring, “I should have flatted and waited for the river.”![[user76023]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
, but he was flipping against Farrell's 
flop was disaster for Burland as it paired Farrell's ace. Burland needed a queen to win the pot or running diamonds to chop, but the chop option disappeared wen the 
turn. Burland needed a queen on the river to survive, but it wasn't in the cards as the 
rolled off.
. The Hungarian was primed to double into the chip lead, but the 
on the turn saw the action go check check.
. Graydon again checked and Maguire had another look at his hole cards, paused. and bet 5,100.
for the winning flush.
on the turn prompted Maguire to attempt to take the initiative with a bet of 7,000. Alekberovas called.
. Maguire checked and when Alekberovas moved all in he had to fold.
and Blain leaped above the 50,000 mark.
