Ole Schemion opened under the gun for 23,000 and Anton Astapau on the button made it 70,000 with 341,000 behind. Schemion called and checked to his opponent on . Astapau bet 85,000 and Schemion raised to 175,000. Astapau moved all in for 341,000 total and Schemion insta called.
Astapau showed and Schemion tabled . The on the turn and on the river were of no help to Schemion and Astapau doubled.
Christopher Andler from Sweden is one of the shorter stacks in the room with 108,000 in chips. Every hand he takes all the time he can get before folding. Table mate Dan Shak gave people three-to-one on $100 that Andler would be folding just a couple of hands ago. It's not hand for hand yet, so he's taking as much time as he can. "I don't blame you!" laughed Shak, "I don't blame you sir."
Oleksii Khoroshenin raised to 25,000 from the cut off as the action folded around to Oliver Price in the small blind. He tanked for several minutes finally releasing his hand. Martin Kabrhel was in the big blind and moved all in for 185,000 in chips. Khoroshenin received a count from the dealer and made the call shortly after.
Khoroshenin:
Kabrhel:
Kabrhel was in great shape to double up but was out flopped when the dealer spread out the . Kabrhel would then watch as he missed all his straight and flush outs to be eliminated from the tournament.
The remaining 40 players are now on the money bubble and are playing hand-for-hand.
On a board of we saw Ole Schemion bet out 75,000. Georgios Karakousis right next to him didn't waste much time making the call. Karakousis, with a stack of 385,000, faced a bet of 150,000 on the river. Schemion smiled a bit when Karakousis open folded his and offered to show one card. Karakousis picked the left one and Schemion showed the .
Ioannis Apostolidis just shoved all in from early position and had a speech to go along with it; "Don't do anything stupid now, You all know what I hold. Don't f*ck up!"
Simon Ravnsbaek opened to 26,000 from the hijack and Alexander Ivarsson on the button made the call. Ravnsbaek continued to bet 28,000 on and Ivarsson made the call. The turn was the and Ravnzbaek bet one more time, though we couldn't see if it was 52,000 or 76,000. Ivarsson made the call however and both players checked on the river.
Ravnsbaek had nothing with , Ivarsson opened and took it down. "Dealers next hand!" the floor shouted.