Demers Applying Pressure While Dovzhenko and Mitchell Take Hits

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There are 387 players left, and the time it takes to finish a soccer match, before this bad boy is over for the night. We have just trawled through the Golden section and this is what we saw.

We saw Gionni Demers apply maximum pressure to take down a decent sized pot without the need to play any post flop poker. The player on the button raised to 1,600, Demers three-bet to 4,400 from the small blind, the big blind four-bet to 11,300, the button folded and Demers moved all-in. The big blind fiddled, and thought for a few minutes, in absolute anguish, before eventually releasing his hand.

Alexander Dovzhenko has just lost a blind squabble that has left him perilously low. The action folded around to the player in the small blind who moved all-in holding {9-Spades} {8-Spades} and Dovzhenko called in the big blind holding {Q-Spades} {10-Diamonds} . The board ran out {8-Diamonds} {3-Clubs} {2-Hearts} {9-Diamonds} {10-Hearts} and Dovzhenko was down to just 8,000 chips.

Alexander Dovzhenko is a true live tournament grinder with over $1.5 million in earnings going back over an eleven year stretch.

Finally, we saw former Irish Open champion, James Mitchell, lose a substantial portion of his chips to Frank Piocos and this is how. There was a raise from early position and a call from Piocos on the button. Mitchell was seated in the big blind and he squeezed for a total of 4,800, the initial raiser folded but the button made the call.

Flop: {A-Spades} {9-Hearts} {6-Spades}

The flop looked perfect for both because Mitchell was holding {A-Hearts} {K-Spades} and Piocos was holding {9-Clubs} {9-Spades} . The turn {10-Spades} and river {2-Clubs} changed nothing and Mitchell was down to 11,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Matt Livingstone	69,000
Michael Craig	55,000 10,000	10,000
Gionni Demers	50,000 -5,000	-5,000
Yann Brosolo	48,000 -7,000	-7,000
Sofia Lovgren	47,000 2,000	2,000
Jia Liu	40,000 -20,000	-20,000
Matt Stout	35,400 3,400	3,400
Gianluca Rullo	30,000 -30,000	-30,000
Chris Arvanitis	25,000 -19,000	-19,000
Kevin Vandersmissen	19,000 6,000	6,000
Sam Holden	16,000 6,500	6,500
Tom McCormick	14,500 6,100	6,100
James Keys	14,300 -13,700	-13,700
Darryl Fish	11,000 2,000	2,000
James Mitchell	11,000 -4,000	-4,000
Alexander Dovzhenko	8,000 3,000	3,000
Pierre Neuville	Busted