Steve Savio checked the turn out of the small blind and then called a bet worth 16,000 by Yannick Cardot. The fell on the river and Cardot pushed all in to force out Savio, who open-folded the .
Following a flop of , Damien Robert bet 4,500 and Mark Buckley called on the button. Robert bet another 11,500 on the turn for Buckley to call and the river completed the board. Robert checked and Buckley bet 13,000 to take it down uncontested.
Brian Kim and Alex Kulev were all in, Kim with the least, and Diego Zeiter was there to put both players at risk with the biggest stack. The cards were on their backs and the dealer was ready to go.
Brian Kim:
Alex Kulev:
Diego Zeiter:
The board ran out and Kim flopped a pair of jacks to beat both players and triple his stack of 32,000. Zeiter counted out 46,200 to pay Kulev's side pot.
The cards of Ouri Cohen were already in the muck as he paid off the double to table neighbour Jamil Wakil. In a duel of shorter stacks, Wakil's made top set on the runout and that was good enough for the double.
Action was heads up with over 20,000 in the middle and on the board when William Kassouf bet 12,500. Alexane Najchause went into the tank to consider her options, and Kassouf's voice was not far behind.
Kassouf went into his line of questioning. The usual "do-you-have" and a string of accusations relating to which card improved her hand. The clock was finally called, but it was a mere formality when Najchaus put out the chips to call.
"Nice hand, you win," Kassouf said, not yet turning over his cards.
He finally showed and Najchaus turned over to take the pot with a pair of nines.
Steven Warburton check-called the turn for 4,500 and then led the river when randomly grabbing into his stack and placing forward 15,800. Dimitar Danchev instantly called but nodded and mucked upon being shown the for trips gours.
On a completed board of , Samuel Ju paid off a bet worth 27.200 by Masato Yokosawa and was shown the for kings and fives by the Japanese poker streamer. That was good enough to win the pot and Yokosawa was all smiles when raking in the pot.