Tale of two calls

Team Paradise are now within 350 players of the money in the Rio's Pavilion Room, but Pham Kim-Phuc and Udo Seepe have endured contrasting fortunes when faced with big calls.

Seepe (pictured) came up with a gutsy call with AK when an opponent shoved a 999 flop, crushing his KQ and taking his stack to leave Udo with 32,000.

After a day when everything has seemed to go his way, it was perhaps surprising that it was Kim-Phuc who layed down the winner when holding JJ.

The pre-flop action had convinced him he must be beat, with a 3-bet and 4-bet shove behind his early position raise, but both villains showed pocket 9s.

The German citizen is still hovering around the 40,000-chip mark, however, having pulled off a big bluff with AK unimproved and forcing a foe to fold JJ of his own on the river.

Meanwhile, Johnan "Dusty_Rat" Jakobsson will not repeat his final table appearance of 2010 after he ran his short stack into Aces holding AK.

Latest Selected Chip Count
Pham Kim-Phuc - 42,000
Jakub Milion - 35,000
Udo Seepe - 32,000
Robert Norberg - 28,000
Manuel Cuberos Lopez-Cozar - 24,000
Alex Hannell - 17,000
Tom Garland - 15,000
David Pishvafar - 6,000
Jose Luis Cobo - 3,500