From early position, Dzmitry Urbanovich raised to 55,000 and left himself 15,000 behind. One seat over, Olivier Busquet called and everyone else got out of the way. Urbanovich checked the flop and Busquet put him all in. Urbanovich called off with the , Busquet had that beat with the .
"I was sure it was an under pair," Busquet said. The turn and the river delivered yet another seat open only minutes into level 17.
Alex Longobardi open shoved under the gun for 40,000. Action folded to Stephen Chidwick in the big blind who made the call.
Chidwick:
Longobardi:
The flop would be terrible for Longobordi as it took away some of his outs: . The on the turn sealed the deal and by the time the on the river fell, Longobardi was already up from the table.
Over at the feature table, the last hand of Level 16 went a good five minutes into the break. That's because Dominik Nitsche was contemplating what to do on the river with a board reading .
His opponent, Stephen Chidwick, had moved all in, and after some intense thought, Nitsche called. Chidwick rolled over the for a set, and it was good as Nitsche went to muck. However, it was an all-in hand so the dealer tabled his hand — . Nitsche had a pair of tens, but it wasn't good enough.
In the two minutes before the break we caught the following three hands that saw two seat opens and the triple up of Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden.
Jorge Ribeiro limped in the small blind and then moved all in after the raise of Matas Cimbolas in the big blind. Cimbolas wasted no time in calling all in with the . His opponent turned over the and picked up a few further outs on the flop. Both the turn and river were no help and Ribeiro was gone.
Mario Sanchez Cano four-bet shoved the button and Federico Petruzzelli called in the big blind with the . He was in excellent shape against the of his opponent, the confirmed that.
Last but not least we went back to table four and it was Johnny Lodden at risk. Pedro Pellicer raised the cutoff, Lodden moved all in one seat over for 12,500 and both Pellicer and Shyam Srinivasan in the big blind called. The board was checked down. Pellicer showed the and Lodden won the pot with the .
In one of the first hands after the bubble broke, and just a few minutes before the break, Dmitry Ponomarev got his short stack of 27,500 all in preflop at the feature table and was in great shape to double through Stefano Garbarino.
Ponomarev:
Garbarino:
Ponomarev got it in good, but his Italian foe got lucky when the flop came down . Neither the turn nor river helped Ponomarev, and he exited in 78th place for €8,434.
Just after the bubble burst there was a three-way preflop all in on another table.
Andrey Lobzhanidze
Jan Sjavik
Andrea Benelli
Benelli covered them both and the excitable Russian, Lobzhanidze was out of his seat shouting in anticipation.
The cards ran out .
Lobzhanidze had to dodge a queen on after the flop and when it didn’tdome he pounded the table in celebration, tripling up. Meanwhile Sjavik was quietly eliminated.
flop and Busquet put him all in. Urbanovich called off with the 
, Busquet had that beat with the 
.
turn and the 
river delivered yet another seat open only minutes into level 17.
even delivered quads for the Swede.
on the turn sealed the deal and by the time the 
on the river fell, Longobardi was already up from the table.
for a set, and it was good as Nitsche went to muck. However, it was an all-in hand so the dealer tabled his hand — 
and picked up a few further outs on the 
turn and 
. He was in excellent shape against the 
confirmed that.
