Action was heads-up with around 50,000 in the pot and on the board when Pavel Veksler shoved from the small blind and Aram Sargsyan called from the cutoff.
Pavel Veksler:
Aram Sargsyan:
Veksler was ahead with a pair of eights when the turn came and the river was with no help for Sargsyan. Veksler secured the double with a pair of eights and brought some health back back to his stack.
Kamel Atoui raised from an early position and received one caller before Erkan Soenmez on the button three-bet to 57,000 and Atoui was the only caller. The flop was checked by Atoui, who then called a bet worth 88,000 by Soenmez.
After the turn, Atoui moved all-in right away and Soenmez beat him into the pot for the final 255,000.
Erkan Soenmez:
Kamel Atoui:
The double for Soenmez was already confirmed as the river completed the board.
With roughly 200,000 in the pot on a completed board, Sylvain Loosli was in the big blind and facing a decision for his tournament life against Nikolai Tulin in the hijack. Loosli had approximately 105,000 behind and after using multiple time extensions, put in the chips.
Tulin tabled , while Loosli could only flip over as he made his exit from the tournament.
Action was heads-up with 80,000 in the pot and on the board when Pavek Veksler checked and Hugo Pingray bet 106,000. Veksler went deep into the tank and spent four time banks before he finally got away from it and gave the pot to Pingray.
Alejandro Romero shoved his last 146,000 from middle position and Dragos Trofimov looked him up from the next seat over. The rest of the table got out of the way and action was heads-up with Romero at risk.
Alejandro Romero:
Dragos Trofimov:
The board ran out and the aces held to double through Trofimov.
There was a ton of action over on table one and it resulted in two eliminations.
First up, it was Marcelo Simoes who raised to 18,000 on the button and Julien Veyssiere three-bet to 59,000 in the small blind. Simoes then four-bet jammed for 380,000 effective and Veyssiere studied the tournament clock to see if there was a pay jump or not before calling it off.
Julien Veyssiere:
Marcelo Simoes:
The board knocked out Veyssiere as Simoes leaped into the lead by some margin.
Soon after, Nicola Grieco raised the button and Jerome Zerbib defended the big blind. They got it in after a flop via check-raise to 100,000, push and call with Zerbib at risk for around 285,000.
Jerome Zerbib:
Nicola Grieco:
The turn and river let Grieco celebrated and he then pointed to the ace of clubs and said "this was important" as he held the nut flush blocker. Both stacks were counted and Grieco had the covering stack to score the knockout.
The cards were already on their backs before the flop and Oliver Bosch was somehow all-in for a rather large 351,000 only to get snapped off by Fausto Tantillo.
Oliver Bosch:
Fausto Tantillo:
There was some back door outs following the flop and one of them came with the turn. However, the river was a brick and Bosch bowed out.