The only pressure that Hossein Ensan experiences right now is the one from the massage, because at the tables it is the German that applies pressure on his opponents. Ensan called a raise from Alexander Ivarsson and check-raised the flop to 125,000. Ivarsson called that but then bowed out to a bet of 143,000 on the turn.
Niccolo Ceccarelli had won quite some chips off Bart Kuiper on the river of a board after spiking a two outer with his to beat the jack of Kuiper. As a result, the stack of the Italian had grown to around 900,000 but that all vanished just now after a massive clash with Fedor Holz.
It was Holz who five-bet shoved preflop and put Ceccarelli at risk with the . The Italian went into the showdown with and the WCOOP champion found a flush draw on the flop. The turn completed said flush and Ceccarelli now needed a king or queen to stay alive.
The dealer burned and turned the river and that was it for the Italian.
Up at the feature table, Bjorn Lundgren got his short stack of 153,000 all in preflop from the hijack and ran into Remigiusz Wyrzykiewicz in the small blind.
Wyrzykiewicz:
Lundgren:
The didn't do Lundgren any favors, but the turn did. Lundgren spiked his set, and successfully cracked Wyrzykiewicz's aces when the blanked on the river.
In a battle of Spain, Javier Gomez Zapatero fired a continuation bet of 58,000 on the flop and Sergio Aido called on the button. The action on the turn is unknown, but Gomez Zapatero took down the pot without showdown by betting the river for 180,000.
Koray Aldemir opened to 53,000 from under the gun and Rudolf Wilhelm Zintel defended his big blind to see a flop of . Zintel check-called a bet of 74,000 and the turn was checked through. Zintel also checked the river and reluctantly paid off the 150,000 bet of Aldemir to muck when shown for top pair.
With two all ins in a row, Jacek Ladny increased his stack slightly The first hand was an open shove and the second one came after a raise of Antonin Duda to 53,000.
A lot of raises, squeezes and bets later, Fedor Holz has added another another 300,000 chips to his stack and is making a run for the over-night chip lead.
A bigger pot emerged between Antonin Duda and start-of-the-day chip leader Javier Gomez Zapatero. It all started rather innocent with a raise from the button by the Czech and Gomez Zapatero was sitting in the big blind. It culminated in a check-raise by the Spaniard after the river of a board.
Duda had bet 104,000 and Gomez Zapatero check-raised to 269,000, revealing the for trips nines once he got called.