Nicola Grieco Eliminated in 23rd Place (€25,000)

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Level 24 : 15,000/30,000, 3,000 ante

Fabrizio Cataldi could never have guessed the carnage his action would have caused when he raised to 66,000 from under the gun. Nicola Grieco three-bet from the cut-off making it 200,000 to play. Rupert Elder was the man on the button and he promptly four-bet to 345,000. The small blind folded and Luca Cavecchi suddenly shouted "problemo!" from the big blind. He gave the table the usual Italian hand gestures and muttered a lot of words before folding what we can only assume to be a very strong hand.

Cataldi was the next person to speak when he asked Elder how much he had started the hand with and Elder replied, "two million." Cataldi put his hand over his mouth, shot a glance at Grieco and then decided to fold.

Grieco had 800,000 behind and he played with a tower of blue chips worth 200,000 before eventually announcing all-in. Elder called so quickly I thought he was going to fall off his chair. Everyone dived around the table to watch the demise of the Italian and the rise to the top of the chip counts by the youngster from the UK.