Daniel Merrilees raised to 5,000 from middle position and Daniel Rodriguez three-bet jammed from the hijack for 48,000. Kavin Shah called from the button but Merrilees let it go.
Daniel Rodriguez:
Kavin Shah:
The runout was and Shah raked in the pot, sending Rodriguez out.
Action was grabbed at the end of a hand with a board that showed . Ibrahim Ghassan tossed out a chunks of chips for a sizeable bet of about 50,000, Andrei Boghean called.
Boghean showed his set but it was no good as Ghassan had the for the flush.
After a preflop raising war between Giovanni Petroni under the gun and Ralf Penzkofer in the big blind saw the majority of Penzkofer's 75,000 chip stack end up in the middle, the dealer spread a flop of .
Penzkofer slid his last 25,000 forward and Petroni called.
Ralf Penzkofer:
Giovanni Petroni:
Petroni's jacks were ahead and remained so on the runout that sent Penzkofer home short of the money.
Scott Margereson raised from the hijack and Maria Ho three-bet jammed a stack of about 35,000 from the cutoff. The action folded back around and Margereson called with a bigger stack.
Maria Ho:
Scott Margereson:
Ho had run into aces and didn't get any help from the runout of to mark her elimination as TV cameras hovered around the table.
"I'll be in the booth soon, boys," the commentator told the camera crew.
The board read . Action went check-check to the river which came the .
From early position Jamila von Perger bet 15,000 which was a pot-size bet over to Julien Sitbon on the button. Sitbon thought for about 30 seconds before he called.
Von Perger tabled the which was the winner as Sitbon mucked.
Atanas Kodinov opened from middle position and Giovanni Petroni flat-called on the button to see a flop heads-up.
The flop landed and Kodinov continued with a bet of 5,500. Petroni called. The turn brought the and Kodinov checked. Petroni bet 16,000 and his opponent folded.
Nacho Barbero raised to 5,000 in middle position and was met with a three-bet to 13,500 by Alex Rodriguez on the button.
Barbero called from his dwindling stack to take a flop.
The dealer spread a monotone and Barbero checked to Rodriguez, who bet 6,000.
Barbero called, and a fourth club came on the turn with the .
Both players now checked and the fell on the river.
Barbero now led out for 22,000, leaving himself just over 10,000 behind.
As the PokerStars broadcast crew gathered to film the action, Rodriguez went into the tank for a couple of minutes, before frustratedly folding his cards to send the pot across the table to Barbero, who is making a valiant attempt to rebuild his stack.