More Paint in Here Than the National Gallery

A quick tour of the tournament area produced a weirdly impressive number of premium hands. No wonder the chips are flying.

Michael Tschanz was fortunate enough to pick up A-K suited; he duly doubled up with it against A-J, although he's still relatively short after the event.

Meanwhile across the room A-K was not good enough for a gentleman we believe was Friedrich Pfalzer - he left too quickly for us to verify his name. It looked as though the majority of his stack had gone in preflop, and the rest on the innocuous Th 3h 9c flop. Opponent Peter Kamaras couldn't get his chips in fast enough, holding the As Ac, and although the Kc on the turn gave Pfalzer a little something, the river was a blank Qh and Pfalzer hit the rail.