Ilan Boujenah is so angry we have just seen him headbutt the wall, and the man responsible for the emergence of lava is Jack Salter.
The pair got embroiled in a pot with Ilan Boujenah three-betting with pocket jacks, Salter four-betting with pocket kings, Boujenah five bet jamming and Salter calling. The outrage is because Salter stacked his chips with his blue denominations hidden behind his pink, red and yellow chips. With each blue chip worth 5,000, this means that around 100,000 was hidden from view when Boujenah went for the jugular.
The Tournament Director was called and Salter was given a verbal warning. Salter apologised, but that was no comfort for Boujenah who has had to pass the chip lead to Salter. But Boujenah is made of strong stuff and in the time it has taken for us to write this article, he his back up to 100,000!
Dominik Nitsche is down to 29,000 and has resorted to getting his chips into the middle preflop. Just now he open-shoved from under the gun for 29,000 in total and picked up the blinds and the antes.
Francesco Favia is one of the chip leaders here in Malta after eliminating two players in a single hand.
The bright-orange top wearing Italian got his chips into the middle with versus the of Casper Toft and the of Latz Hendrik. His queens held and Favia flew towards the top of the counts.
He has just added some more chips after a clash with Ilan Boujenah. The pair checked the turn of a board reading but Boujenah bet the river to the tune of 9,000. Favia called, showed the and won another pot.
Phil Hellmuth's mouth continues to give off little gems to his table mates and he has just given Sampo Ryynanen an earful.
Enrico Tau opened to 3,400 from middle position and the action passed around to Hellmuth on the button. He checked his hole cards and three-bet to 9,000 before entering his trademark pose. The small blind passed but Ryynanen four-bet to 24,000. Tau quickly folded but Hellmuth gave his decision some thought.
"These kids just play so crazy. He probably has ace-jack and thinks its good. Wow, they just play so bad."
As he said this Hellmuth folded and showed and Ryynanen showed Hellmuth a .
"See! You had ace-jack and just wanted to give me all of your chips. I think I deserve them."
Ronnie Bardah may have been eliminated from WPT Malta yesterday but he still took the time out to talk to the PartyPoker blog about a sick hand that went down on his table earlier in the day.
Jackson Genovesi is now up to 420,000 and is running away with this tournament right now.
In a hand just now he opened from the hijack to 3,500 and then called when Jonathan Duhamel three-bet to 8,000 on the button. The flop came down and Genovesi check-called a 8,200 bet. The fell on the turn and both players checked but when the landed on the river, Genovesi bet 8,500 and Duhamel quickly called.
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of Casper Toft and the 
of Latz Hendrik. His queens held and Favia flew towards the top of the counts.
but Boujenah bet the 
river to the tune of 9,000. Favia called, showed the 
.
and Genovesi check-called a 8,200 bet. The 
fell on the turn and both players checked but when the 
and Duhamel mucked.