We noticed Cristiano Guerra sitting with a mountain of chips, and learned what had transpired after the fact.
The hand in question began three players each put in 2,600 preflop and took a flop of . Two checks saw a player in late position bet 6,000, another player call, and Guerra check-raise to 17,500. The late-position player proceeded to move all in for around 50,000, the other player folded, and Guerra made the call.
Late Position:
Guerra:
Guerra was out in front with a set, and it held as running deuces appeared on the turn and river.
Jakub Michalak miss clicked and only almost moved all in from under the gun with a very short stack, leaving himself about 1,000 in chips.
John Haigh called out of the small blind and the big blind folded.
On the flop Michalak got the rest in with the and saw his opponent turn over . The whole table, including Michalak, erupted in laughter, and after the turn and the river he exited the table with the final words, "Alright. So where is my beer?"
PCA finalist Shyam Srinivasan raised the cutoff to 1,200 and one seat further an Italian called to see the flop. Srinivasan made the continuation bet of 1,500 and did so again on the turn for 3,000, though his opponent quickly called twice. Both then checked the river and the Italian raked in the chips with . This was only a minor setback for Srinivasan however, as the Canadian got all the way up from 15,000 earlier today.
The final board was and Candido Goncalves had bet 5,100. Carlo Savinelli thought about it for a fair amount of time while having a massage. He had a decent stack after doubling through Vanessa Selbst and now he raised Goncalves to 15,300.
There wasn’t much of a pause however before Goncalves declared all in. Savinelli sighed deeply and checked his hand more than three times before making the fold and leaving a fair chunk of chips behind.
On the next hand Carl Henriksson opened for 1,250 and Savinelli three-bet him to 3,500. Sat to the left of Savinelli was Goncalves who four-bet. Henriksson had just over 15,000 left and moved all in.
Goncalves instantly called with and the at risk Henriksson showed . The final run out of the board, , gave Henriksson salvation on the end to double up and survive while Goncalves had to pass a slice of his winnings across the felt.
After a raise and the three-bet by Adrian Naya from Spain, Julian Track in the big blind squeezed it up to 10,000. The initial raiser folded but Naya moved all-in for 22,000 - pot odds for the Prague champion with the and he made the call versus the of the Spaniard. The board however delivered two kings and Naya left the tournament area in a very frustrated mood.
All the chips were in preflop and the player at risk, Vladimir Peck, tabled . He was in pretty good shape against the of German PokerStars player and recent Estrellas Valencia winner Fabio Sperling.
The board ran out and the flush of the PokerStars Pro did for Peck.
There will be no back-to-back victory for Oleksii Khoroshenin from the Ukraine after he has just hit the rail. After an open raise to 1,400, Pawel Brzeski three-bet to 4,000 in the small blind and the Vienna champion moved all in for ~14,000 one seat over. Brzeski looked him up with the and was behind against the of his opponent; however, the flop provided the necessary help. The turn and river both blanked and that was it for the Ukrainian.
All other tables already bagged up their chips but table 4 was still not done with their last hand. We saw the turn and Giuliano Bendinelli bet 2,000 to call the raise of his table neighbor Pratik Ghatge to 6,000. On the river, the Italian check-folded after about 2 minutes the openly when Ghatge made it 10,000 to go.