In a heads-up pot to the turn, Marios Ioanndes bet 3,400 and was called by Oriol Gregori I Palacios. The fell on the river and Ioanndes bet 10,000. His opponent snap-called and Ioanndes tabled the , which had to settle for a chop as Gregori I Palacios held the equally strong .
Yana Gorskaya appears to be the current chip leader as she has more than doubled her stack while Pablo Diaz Andreu Sanchez has become the second casualty of the day.
With some 8,500 in the middle to the river, Jaime Bertran Mainou bet 2,800 and had four red T-5,000 chips behind. Tom Evans then pushed all-in from the button and the Spaniard was sent into the tank.
Bertran Mainou eventually folded and flashed the , which had made a straight. Evans double-checked his cards before raking in the pot and exposed the .
Three ways to the river, Shah Athar bet 3,000 in the small blind and Ilan Malka raised to 7,000 in the big blind. Bogdan-Ion Sovaiala folded on the button and Athar immediately smirked.
He eventually folded and the players at the table asked Malka if he had the jack of hearts. "I hope so," Athar grinned and another then remarked "maybe he had the six seven", to which Malka finally replied "same thing"
Several MVP players have been invited by 888poker to take part in the tournament and two of them are Ian Trewhella and Marios Ioanndes. The former just took a hit to his stack while the latter chipped up without showdown.
Trewhella checked behind the river in a pot of 4,000 and Esteban Calvet Martos tabled the for a flush to win the pot.
Yana Gorskaya then limped from under the gun at the end of the previous level and Daniel Arribas Franco raised to 500 for Ioanndes in the big blind and Gorskaya to call. The flop was checked to the initial raiser, who bet 600. Ioanndes called and Gorskaya folded which led them to the turn.
Both players now checked and the river brought a bet worth 700 by Ioanndes, Arribas Franco folded.
Three ways to the turn, Mauro Guglielmoni bet 3,700 into 5,700 and was called by Petru Tarlev on the button. The fell on the river and Guglielmoni checked. Tarlev jammed for just 8,100 and was instantly called to reveal the for a flush.
Guglielmoni was beat with for the broadway straight and saw his stack cut into more than half.
On the tail end of a heads-up pot between Zaharia-Mihai Borlovan and Kian Khaleghian, the board showed . Borlovan check-called a bet worth 1,500 and Khaleghian tabled the for a busted flush draw, which he had beat with the .
"I wanted the flush," Khaleghian joked and Borlovan replied "me too".
Picking up the action on the flop, Jorge Ufano check-raised to 1,700 out of the small blind and was called by Sawas Charalambous from one seat over. Ufano bet the turn for 6,700 to receive a call and fired another 13,400 on the river.
Charalambous mulled it over for a while and sent the cards into the muck.