Dominik Panka, the PCA champion, was all in preflop wih against Andrey Shatilov's . The board came and it looked like Panka was heading out of the door but the river was the and Panka doubled up.
A few hands later and Dominik Panka was betting 190,000 on the river of an board. Johan Soderberg check-raised all in for 311,000 and Panka looked pained. He took several minutes before finally calling.
Soderberg turned over and Panka flipped .
Soderberg looked shocked, "You slowrolled me?"
Panka replied, "No, of course I didn't."
Andre Leattau added, "I don't think it's a slowroll."
Egidijus Dovidaitis (and in case you're wondering, no I can't type that from memory) lost a big flip with to Andrejs Maklecovs' (ditto) when the later spiked an ace. Dovidaitis was crippled as a result and was eliminated a few hands later.
Mike McDonald hadn’t had much luck today and saw his stack gradually whittled down. McDonald looked down at and went with it only to run in to the of Bram Haenraets.
The cards ran out with the flop all but sealing his fate and McDonald was out just as the first break of the day was called.
Andrey Shatilov had bet 37,000 from the big blind after small blind Andreas Samuelsson had checked it to him on the turn of a board reading .
Samuelsson likes to take his time with decisions and he certainly took his time with this one. He only had about 80,000 behind so he was entitled to take his time but Shatilov eventually called time on him. As soon as the dealer had called the floor to commence the countdown Samuelsson moved all in and Shatilov instantly mucked his cards.
Miguel Garcia moved all in, got a call from Sveva Libralesso and then Mark Wagstaff re-shoved from the button. There were three players all in and Wagstaff had the other two covered.
Garcia held the , Libralesso had and Wagstaff the .
The cards ran out , Wagstaff’s hand held and he sent two players to the rail in one fell swoop.
There were 500,000 chips in the middle after John Andress had five-bet from the button preflop and had been called in the small blind by.
The flop was and Sowinski checked.
After some thought Andress bet a small 115,000 and Sowinski check-raised all-in. Andress looked distraught as he had most of his stack in the middle and was getting a terrific price. After some agonising he did release his hand asking his opponent, “Slow play?” Sowinski replied, “Maybe.”