"Bang! Madonna! Bravo."
Those three words just summed up Francesco Cirianni's afternoon. The bang was the sound of him moving all-in; the 'Madonna!' on seeing the call and the hand he was up against, and the 'Bravo!' a sporting salute when his opponent's K-J easily manoeuvred passed his own Q-J. Oh well.
Elsewhere Maria Mayrinck has been moved to a new table. "I had 22K" she said, "before I went thought some 'flips'" she added, making the air quotes herself. "Now I have 16K. It's all good."
Finally, Julian Thew is out, never recovering from the Baer hand that stripped him of a weighty stack. He's on the rail but he's not alone. 220 players remain as we move into level six, with blinds at 150-300 with a running 25 ante.
