Tom Alner got his stack of 126,000 all in preflop and received a call from Team PokerStars Pro Vicky Coren, who had recently moved tables.
Alner:
Coren:
Alner was in trouble, but he found some help on the . Neither the turn nor river changed a thing, and Coren had no other option than to take to Twitter.
From the cutoff, Vicky Coren raised to 13,000 and Raul Mestre defended his big blind. The Spaniard check-called 15,000 on the flop, both then checked the turn. On the river, Mestre bet for 35,000 and Coren raised to 75,000. The Spaniard did not snap call, in fact he took about two minutes before tossing in the chips for the call.
Coren turned over the for the nut flush and that was enough to rake in the chips.
There had been a fair amount of action by the look of it based on the amount of chips in the middle of the table.
The cards read and with about 300,000 in the middle Raul Mestre thought for a while before announcing “two hundred thousand.” and sliding the chips out.
A jolt shot through his opponent, Brazilian PokerStars player, Douglas Souza agonizing audibly. In the end he decided he just couldn’t fold and jumped out of his chair when Mestre turned over for the rivered full house.
Eventually Souza turned over for the turned, but ultimately worse full house. Several polayers agreed that they couldn’t fold that.
Jordan Westmorland felt moved to say, “Oh my God. This game is gross.”
Russian player Alex Bilokur has just been eliminated from the tournament in 48th place (€10,170).
He was already extremely short but a bit remarkably he saw a flop first in one of the hands. In that hand it was Andrea Benelli who opened to 12,000 before the flop. Bilokur called from the big blind, leaving himself just 23,000 behind. Bilokur checked the flop, and instantly folded after Benelli bet all in.
The next hand he folded his small blind but the hand after that one he shoved all in. Action folded to him on the button and he shoved his last 18,000 in. Xia Lin in the small blind announced all in as well and the big blind folded.
Bilokur showed and was up against Lin's . The flop gave Bilokur a flush draw but Lin top pair: . The on the turn gave Bilokur some more outs, but the on the river wasn't one of them.
Two players had reached the river of a board reading and Andreas Goeller had made a bet if 85,000 after several minutes deliberation.
Michael Tureniec sat stock still, eyes hidden behind dark glasses. He too took his time before moving all in.
Goeller asked for a count and found it was 234,000 which would be the majority of his stack. Tureniec had piled the pressure on at apparently just the right time. Goeller acknowledged as much by tapping the table and folding his cards.
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In the second last hand of level 18, Alessandro Meoni moved all in for what looked like 55,000 chips from under the gun. The action folded to Dan Murariu in the small blind and he made the call with the , the big blind folded. Meoni showed the and the delivered one of the six outs for the Romanian.
After a raise from under the gun, Yordan Dimitrov moved all in for six big blinds. On the button, Filippo Marroccoli moved all in himself to scare off the blinds and initial raiser Rocco Palumbo.
Dimitrov:
Marroccoli:
The Italian could not get there on the board and Palumbo said, "I would have busted you. I folded ace ten."
. Neither the 
turn nor 
river changed a thing, and Coren had no other option than to take to Twitter.
flop, both then checked the 
turn. On the 
for the nut flush and that was enough to rake in the chips.
and with about 300,000 in the middle Raul Mestre thought for a while before announcing “two hundred thousand.” and sliding the chips out.
for the rivered full house.
for the turned, but ultimately worse full house. Several polayers agreed that they couldn’t fold that.
flop, and instantly folded after Benelli bet all in.
and was up against Lin's 
. The flop gave Bilokur a flush draw but Lin top pair: 
. The 
on the river wasn't one of them.
and the 
board and Palumbo said, "I would have busted you. I folded ace ten."
