Jules Dickerson raised to 2,000 from under the gun and Jakub Michalak called on the button. Kamel Tamer also called in the small blind. The flop came and all three players checked.
The turn was the . Tamer checked, Dickerson bet 3,500 and Michalak called. The river was the . Dickerson checked, Michalak bet 11,000 and Dickerson folded.
Lianmin Bai opened to 2,000 from the hijack and [Removed:428] called in the cutoff. Nariman Yaghmai then three-bet to 9,500 in the small blind and Bai and Maloku both folded.
Ken Okada raised to 2,000 from the button and Timo Kamphues called in the small blind. The flop came . Kamphues checked, Okada bet 1,900 and Kamphues check-raised to 4,800. Okada, however, quickly shoved all in and Kamphues just as quickly folded.
Conor Beresford raised to 2,000 from under the gun, before Jimmy Saft made it 6,200 from middle position. Mauricio Ferreira Pais was on the button and came in with a cold four-bet to 15,000.
Beresford got more than he bargained for and quickly mucked his hand before Saft put in the five-bet to 40,000. Ferreira Pais used two time bank extensions before announcing his all-in, worth 94,300. No count was needed, however, as Saft snap-called.
Mauricio Ferreira Pais:
Jimmy Saft:
Saft let out an expletive, condemning the classic cooler. It would not help him as the board ran out , forcing him to give away many of his hard-earned chips to Ferreira Pais.
Players have been sent on their final 20-minute break of the day with the clocks showing 212 of 376 players remaining. They will play two more levels when they return and then will bag for the evening.
Aliaksandr Shylko raised to 4,200 from the small blind and Thomas Santerne defended out of the big blind.
Shylko continued for 2,200 on the flop and Santerne called. Shylko then bet 17,000 on the turn with less than that in the pot and Santerne called.
The completed the board and Shylko used a time bank before betting 35,000 and leaving himself just 1,600 behind. Santerne snap-called. Shylko showed for a set, but it was no good against the rivered flush of Santerne with to leave Shylko with crumbs.
A few hands later, Shylko jammed for just more than one big blind and Juha Helppi and Pieter Aerts both called out of the blinds.
Helppi and Aerts both checked on the flop as well as the turn. Helppi checked again on the river and folded when Aerts bet 2,500. Shylko tabled for an underpair and couldn't survive as Aerts showed for a pair of jacks to send the 2023 PokerStars Players Championship winner to the rail.
The action was caught on the flop when Sam Grafton had just check-raised Thi Xao Nguyen's unidentified flop bet to 14,000 chips. Nguyen called and the two saw the turn.
Grafton slowed down and checked, leading to Nguyen betting 16,000. Grafton did not have to think long before he called. The river brought the and both players checked.
Grafton was first to show and tabled . The turned pair was good enough, because Nguyen threw her hand into the muck. ''I was starting a bluff!,'' Grafton remarked while he stacked his newly acquired chips.
Kazuhiko Yotsushika opened to 2,500 from the cutoff and Ramon Colillas three-bet jammed a stack of 15,400 from the small blind. Sultanem gave a shrug and called with a bigger stack.
Ramon Colillas:
Kazuhiko Yotsushika:
The table was shocked by Yotsushika's call, but that didn't stop him from taking a massive lead on the flop of .
"Impossible!" reacted Georges Sultanem.
The board finished out and Yotsushika scooped the pot to eliminate Colillas, who is the second PokerStars Players Championship winner to fall this level after the earlier elimination of Aliaksandr Shylko.