Joao Vieira moved all in for 257,000 and Anirudh Seth gave it a long dwell up from the small blind before he too announce that he was all in. Benjamin Pollak was visibly distressed, unable to decide what to do with his hand facing two all-in’s in front of him. Nobody said anything as a couple of minutes ticked by. In the end he threw he cards in in frustration and we got to the showdown between Viera’s and the of Seth. On the flop Vieira moved ahead and Seth Would need and ace or runner. Turn and river gave him the flush so runner, runner it was to send Vieira packing.
With quite a few chips already in the pot and a board reading , Olivier Busquet bet 85,000 from the big blind and was met by a raise to approximately 250,000. Busquet snap-called with the for a flush, and it was good as Rossiter quickly chucked his cards to the muck.
By the time the river of a board was reached there was roughly 185,000 in the pot and Oleksii Khoroshenin led out for 77,000, his lone opponent in the hand was Olivier Busquet. The American reached for chips and settled on a raise to 250,000. The Ukranian then tanked for at least five minutes before calling, Busquet showed and Khoroshenin mucked.
From under-the-gun Ariel Mantel opened to 26,000, it folded to Thomas Muhlocker in the big blind and he three-bet to 67,000. Back on Mantel he moved all-in for 340,000 and Muhlocker called.
Max Heinzelmann raised from the button and, when the small blind folded, Emil Ohlsson moved all in. A quick call by Heinzelmann with and he was way ahead of the of Ohlsson. The cards fell , no help for Ohlsson and he was out.
At the same time Akin Tuna was eliminated, on a different table Bryn Kenney's tournament also came to an end. Oleksii Khoroshenin raised to 25,000 on the button, Max Heinzelmann called from the small blind and Kenney did likewise from the big blind. The flop was with two spades, it checked to Khoroshenin he continuation bet with , Heinzelmann folded, Kenney check-shoved with and Khoroshenin called.
Both the turn and river were blanks meaning Kenney was out, whilst Khoroshenin is up to roughly 1,075,000.
Kenney was eliminated before the redraw was conducted, so it'll be just 15 players combining to the final two tables.
Akin Tuna opened for 25,000 and was raised to 58,000 by Dmitry Yurasov on his left. The blinds folded and Tuna made the call. They saw a flop of . Tuna was first to act and slammed his column of chips all in for his last 190,000. Yurasov studied his opponent and made the call with . He was right, Tuna was on a draw with and could also hit a six. The turn was the and the river bricked out to send Tuna out.
Things have been slow since returning from the break. The two-table bubble has been going on for quite some time, but given that players are playing short handed at each of the three tables, we expect it'll burst sooner than later.
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