It's been a rough level for Walid Bou Habib, who began the day as the chip leader.
In a recent hand, a preflop raising war resulted in Artem Metalidi getting his stack of 105,000 all in preflop holding the , which was well out in front of Habib's . The board ran out an uneventful and Metalidi doubled through Habib.
Eugene Katchalov opened to 6,000 and was met by a three bet to 15,000 by Tapio Vihakas. A couple positions down someone with a wrong id-card shoved all in for 28,900. When action back on Katchalov he made it 58,000 to go which forced out Vihakas.
Katchalov had and was up against . There was some paint on the flop but neither would set up: . The on the turn did nothing and the on the river didn't either. Katchalov picked up some much needed chips while his opponent had to depart.
"Good luck all" he said to the table while making a big sigh.
We got to the table just as Bejjani Kamal bust out holding on a Queen high board but was outkicked by Joe Laming from the UK. Kamal stormed away angrily from the table leading Ana Marquez, who had been chatting to him earlier, to comment “Oh my God, his wife is going to kill him for going out before the bubble.”
Players are now on their first 20-minute break of the day. The tournament clock shows 155 players remaining, which means just four more need to hit the rail before the money is made. Stay tuned!
We're on the bubble here in Prague as just 152 players remain, two players, on different tables, busted on the first hand back from the break.
Christian Golob was all in for 105,000 with and Aleksey Ponakov had the board meant Golob was gone in 154th.
A few seconds later there was another all in and call, this time it was EPT8 Campione champion Jannick Wrang who was at risk, he was all in for 68,000 with and up against Sergey Baburin's . The board gave Baburin the win though and sent Wrang to the rail on the 'soft' bubble.
Play has stopped for now and the tournament staff is counting the amount of players still left in the tournament. This has been going on for some time now, it's unclear why it's taking so long. Some of the players are convinced the bubble has already bursted and that they're actually already in the money. We'll report back to you when we know for sure.
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