Tomas Jozonis opened to 110,000 in middle position with . Patrik Antonius three-bet with the optional on the button. Jozonis folded his pocket eights and Antonius picked up the pot.
Ole Schemion raised it up with on the button, Nicolas Dumont responded with a three-bet from the big blind holding and Schemion quickly folded.
Two hands later, Schemion raised from the hijack and this time, it was Honglin Jiang with a three-bet out of the small blind, holding . Schemion once again got out of the way.
After Javier Fernandez raised with on the button, Tomas Jonozis three-bet shoved around 50 big blinds effectively from the small blind with and won the hand.
The next hand, Jiang raised to 110,000 from the hijack with . Jozonis got involved again, this time holding just , and three-bet on the button to 350,000.
David Peters found in the small blind and four-bet shoved for 860,000. Despite getting great odds, Jozonis' starting hand was still terrible against Peters his range and he opted to fold.
David Peters opened on the button to 115,000 and Patrik Antonius defended in the big blind. Antonius check-called 150,000 on the flop, but gave up when Peters barreled 375,000 on the turn.
Sadri Saleh opened to 90,000 on the button with and a three-bet to 350000 by Frederic Dumont in the small blind with did the trick to force a fold.
"This is a good structure, so much play," Patrik Antonius said before the next hand was dealt. "Break after one and a half hours is perfect," Ole Schemion chimed in.
David Peters opened to 115,000 with the and Patrik Antonius made it 350,000 to go with the in middle position. Action folded back to Peters and he called to see a flop of . Peters checked and Antonius bet 225,000, prompting the check-raise all in of Peters. Antonius sighed and folded to drop below a million.
Ole Schemion made it 100,000 to go with the and Sadri Saleh called with the in the hijack. javier Fernandez in the small blind three-bet to 450,000 with the and Saleh folded.
The flop fell and Fernandez continued for 335,000 into a pot of 1.1 million and Schemion called. After the on the turn, Fernandez slowed down and checked to Schemion, who let his shot clock run down to five seconds before moving all in.
Fernandez used one time bank extension and sent his cards into the muck.
Honglin Jiang raised to 110,000 with the and David Peters called from the big blind with , then checked the flop. Jiang bet and forced a quick fold.
Nicolas Dumont raised to 115,000 with the and Tomas Jozonis flat-called on the button with the , Krisztian Gyorgyi defended with the . The flop fell and action checked to Dumont, who continued for 130,000. Only Jozonis called and the appeared on the turn.
Dumont checked and Jozonis checked behind. The river brought a straight on the board and Dumont checked once more. Jozonis bet 550,000 and Dumont used one time bank extension before making the call and earning himself the split pot.
Javier Fernandez raised to 110,000 with the and David Peters called in the cutoff with , Ole Schemion called in the big blind with . The flop fell and a bet of 150,000 did the trick for the Spaniard.
David Peters opened to 115,000 with the and Schemion in the small blind three-bet to 460,000 with to force a fold.
Honglin Jiang made it 110,000 to go with the and Schemion flat-called on the button with the . On the flop, Jiang bet 245,000 and forced a quick fold.
Krisztian Gyorgyi raised to 130,000 with the and Honglin Jiang called in the big blind with the . On the flop, Jiang checked and folded to the continuation bet of Gyorgyi, who made it 230,000 to go.
Gyorgyi raised to 110,000 with the and Patrik Antonius from one seat over three-bet all in for 770,000 with the . Gyorgyi took one time bank extension and called.
The board ran out changed nothing whatsoever and the last former EPT champion in the field doubled.
David Peters raised to 110,000 with the and Tomas Jozonis in the big blind three-bet to 400,000 with the in order to force a fold.
Nicolas Dumont opened to 115,000 with the and Peters defended the in the big blind. A flop of was checked by Peters and a bet by Dumont ended the hand right there.
Sadri Saleh raised to 105,000 with the and that won the blinds and big blind ante.
Schemion raised to 110,000 first to act with the and Honglin Jiang called with the . Javier Fernandez moved all in out of the hijack for 1,845,000 with the and