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With blinds on 600 and 1,200 with a running ante of 100, a short-stacked Marc Veldhoven decided to make his move, pushing in his final 7,200, in addition to a Bounty Bar that was resting on his stack, with . Unfortunately for him, Joey Buhmann was salivating in the big blind with , and had no trouble surviving a harmless board.
As Veldhoven donated his Bounty Bar to his assassin, Buhman commented, "It's not the real thing."
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Three players saw an flop, and in the small blind position Salvatore Cundari open-shoved for his last 3,500. Big blind Bessi Bessy passed, but Uzi Gellman who'd limped in under the gun called.
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With the board reading , big blind Jeroen Kersjes checked to Mark Vos, who bet 3,500. After a short pause, the short-stacked Kersjes merely flat called, and Vos had mucked before Kersjes even showed him a six for the lower end of the straight.
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Nik Lackovic is no more for this tournament after falling foul of an expressionless Simon Kullenberg. Lackovic had mucked by the time this blogger got there, but the board read and Kullenberg could boas for a full house. Kullenberg had Lackovic just covered, and he is very definitely our new chip leader on around 70,000.
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Alexander Eder is out, but not before being poked and prodded by the Poker gods. All in with versus , Eder was in dire need of assistance, which duly arrived on the flop, but a turn and river dealt a cruel blow, given that he had completed the hard part of spiking the flop.
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It's not unusual to see Mark Vos play a marginal hand, but there were more than the odd eyebrow raised when Vos had a man all in with , UTG. His opponent held .
Although there were shouts of a deuce, no such luck emerged as the flop came a rather emphatic . "I can still win," observed an optimistic Vos, but not when the turn, followed by an academic river.