Peter-ing Out

Pete Charalambous is out after being unable to recover from his short-stack angst.

Scrabblicious Zuhair Razook has been eliminated by Tore Lagerborg holding the weakish A-7 against the Norwegian's pocket Kings, a board of Q-8-5-3-K never seemingly providing any help.

My last pick, the other Norwegian, Andreas Hagen is also still in, though he just lost around 40k to leave himself on 100k after calling Mark Bointon's reraise all-in with Qh Td, Hagen said, "Show me a pair of nines and I'll be happy..." Bointon showed Ah-Js, "I'm fairly happy," said Hagen. The flop came out As-Jd-6d..."Ok now I'm not happy." No King appeared on the turn and river and Bointon doubled up.