Scott Seiver was in the big blind and had called a preflop raise from Govert Metaal. They got to the turn of a board showing 
and Seiver moved all in.
Metaal made the call with 
but Seiver had turned trips with his 
hand. The river was the 
and Seiver doubled up.
“Big blind special.” Mused Metaal who no doubt has had a few of those himself in his time.
Alex Bilokur opened the hand with a raise to 20,000 from the hijack. He got two callers, both of them with position; Andrew Chen in the cutoff and Anatoly Gurtovoy on the button.
Bilokur continued for 26,000 on 
and Chen instantly gave up. Gurtovoy made the call though and they were off to see a turn: 
. Bilokur checked to Gurtovoy, who opted to check behind.
The river 
made Bilokur check again. This time around, Gurtovoy didn't check behind. He bet 30,000 and Bilokur had the decision. Bilokur made the call and Gurtovoy tabled just 
. Bilokur showed his winning 
and took it down.
Rui Cao raised to 16,000 and Adrian Mateos moved all in for 93,000. Cao got a count and made the call.
Mateos: 
Cao: 
The flop was 
to give Cao a gutshot to go with his overcard.
"That's fair," said Scott Seiver.
The on the turn changed nothing.
"Also fair," continued Seiver.
The river was the 
and Mateos doubled up.
"That's fair, everything in that hand was fair," concluded Seiver.
"You're a great commentator," deadpanned Philipp Gruissem to a few laughs.
A double up for Pascal Lefrancois, all in with 
against Finger's 
. The board came 
and Lefrancois flopping a house to leave the German almost drawing dead on the flop.
It didn't take too long to burst the money bubble.
In the first hand of hand-for-hand play, Davidi Kitai opened for 17,000 under the gun and action folded to Igor Yaroshevskyy, who was in the big blind and extremely short stack. The Ukrainian wasn't about to try to grind it out and instead splashed in his stack of 28,000. Kitai called and the two had to wait several minutes while action concluded at the outer tables.
Eventually the time came for them to turn up their cards.
Kitai:
Yaroshevskyy:
Yaroshevskyy was behind, but at least he was drawing to two live cards. The 
flop didn't hit him directly, but it did give him a gutshot to go with his live cards. The turn was no help to him, and neither was the river. With that, the bubble was burst.
Yaroshevskyy's elimination in 32nd place means the remaining players are guaranteed a minimum payday of €46,150.
The board read 
and Martin Finger made a bet of 130,000 which was about a pot sized bet. Byron Kaverman went deep in the tank. If he made the call it would be for most, but not all of his stack. There had been an all-in and a call on a different table and as they were hand for hand there was no question about him stalling for time.
Still the minute ticked by and eventually Finger called the clock on him. With five seconds to go Kaverman released his hand.
Finger showed the assembled crowd his 
stone cold bluff much to the appreciation of Scott Seiver. Kaverman didn’t look too happy about it though.
Update to follow.
With 32 players remaining, and 31 in the money, it's officially bubble time now. One more player will leave empty handed, all others await a prize of at least €46,150.
Alex Kravchenko was short stacked and found himself all in with just . He got looked up by Simon Higgins who had a far better hand: 
.
Kravchenko hit a ten on the flop, but not more than that: 
.
Kravchenko got up from the table, and with big steps headed for the exit.
Igor Yaroshevskyy raised it up under the gun to 16,000. Action folded to Andrew Chen in the cutoff who three-bet all in for 131,000. The other players folded and Yaroshevskyy instantly called.
Chen knew he was in trouble with his as Yaroshevskyy tabled just as quickly.
The flop would save Chen though: 
. The 
on the turn and on the river were blanks and Chen doubled up.
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