Sam El Sayed, renowned for his extremely loose style of play, has just eliminated Mattias Lannermark and EPT London Champion, David Vamplew from the tournament in one hand.
El Sayed opened the betting with a raise to 2,200 in middle position. The player next to act folded, then Vamplew moved all in for what turned out to be 22,300. The action folded to Lannermark in the small blind and he moved all in too for 23,700 chips. This put the focus back on El Sayed and he set about figuring out what he needed to do.
"I was folding but not now," Sayed informed the table, before muttering under his breathe something about the average chip stack and that it was now time to gamble. After close to two minutes of chatter he made the call.
El Sayed:
Lannermark:
Vamplew:
By the turn the board read and it looked like a double up was on the cards but El Sayed pleaded with the poker gods "jack one time please" and low and behold his prayers were answered as the showed up on the river.
With that both Vamplew and Lannermark have been eliminated and El Sayed finds himself armed with more than 100,000 chips.
Yesterday we watched an incredibly patient display of poker by Johan Van Til. Despite being very short most of the day he was able to remain focussed and make excellent decisions throughout. The online phenom known as "busto soon" finished that day with a paltry 5,300 chips but we have just witnessed him winning a hand and he now has an incredible 90,000 chips.
Yotam Bar-Yosef raised to 2,000 from early position and Van Til raised to 5,100 from the small blind. Bar-Yosef moved all-in and Van Til snap called.
Roberto Romanello's stack had been on the slide all day after he came back with very healthy 80,000-plus stack. That slide has just stopped after he doubled through Yury Yurchanka.
A preflop raising war saw both players all in, the Welshman having the smaller stack with 28,000.
Hannu Peltola moved all-in for his last 5,000 and was called by Janar Kiivramees. It was your classic coin flip situation but unfortunately for Peltola his drama didn't last too long as Kiivramees flopped a Royal Flush.
Peltola
Kiivramees
Flop:
Obviously no need to explain the turn or the river and Kiivramees won a round of applause and 5k - nice for him!
Irene Baroni is continuing to beat up on Maksim Kolosov.
The Day 1A chip leader raised to 2,200 and was called by Pierre Neuville in the small blind before the Italian three-bet to 2,200 from the big blind. Kolosov tanked and folded to drop to just 18,000 now. Neuville folded too.
Praz Bansi just made a good call on the river against David Sonelin despite having a very low kicker to go with his hand.
Joining the action on a board reading Bansi check-called Sonelin's 4,100 bet. The river was the and Bansi checked to Sonelin again. The Swede paused for a few seconds before betting 7,700, sending the double WSOP bracelet winner into the tank. He stayed there for around 90 seconds before making the call.
Juha Helppi has been eliminated at the hands of Jeremy Nock. There were four limpers who all saw a flop of . Nock was the first person to make a move on the flop when he bet 2,300 and Helppi raised to 7,500. Everyone folded back around to Nock who moved all-in for around 34,000 and Helppi called with 31,000.
Nock
Helppi
The turn and river bricked off and the Finn was out. Nock is now up to ~73,000.
and it looked like a double up was on the cards but El Sayed pleaded with the poker gods "jack one time please" and low and behold his prayers were answered as the 
showed up on the river.![[user76079]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
to pair Romanello's ace.
Bansi check-called Sonelin's 4,100 bet. The river was the 
and Bansi checked to Sonelin again. The Swede paused for a few seconds before betting 7,700, sending the double WSOP bracelet winner into the tank. He stayed there for around 90 seconds before making the call.
. Nock was the first person to make a move on the flop when he bet 2,300 and Helppi raised to 7,500. Everyone folded back around to Nock who moved all-in for around 34,000 and Helppi called with 31,000.