At the very end of level four, we spotted Paul Newey above starting stack and the Super High Roller runner-up had doubled up with a flopped set of fives versus set of deuces. Andrea Dato had bluffed away the remainder of his short stack and Jonathan Roy won a small pot with versus on a .
The very last hand on Roy's table before the break would provide fireworks. On a four-way flop of , Fahredin Mustafov bet 1,600 and Giuliano Bendinelli called. Roy folded and Markus Ross of Germany moved all in for 12,775 chips. Mustafov moved all in over the top for 19,500 chips and Bendinelli folded pocket nines.
Ross:
Mustafov:
The board completed with the turn and the river to give Ross a straight, Mustafov was crippled and Roy would have knocked out both opponents. Would. But he folded.
In one of the last hands before the break, Micah Raskin and Craig Less Sayers clashed on a flop and Raskin had against the of the Brit. No cards could save Raskin and he took a massive hit to his stack, dwindling down to half the starting stack.
The final board read and Vanessa Selbst bet 8,800 which was a pot sized bet.
Vadim Belov was the man with a decision to make. He asked for the bet to be spread out and thought it over for some time before making the call. Selbst turned over and Belov strained his neck to see what she had tabled.
The dealer helped him out by pulling the cards out to show a straight and Belov mucked his cards.
On a flop of the big blind had 500 in front of him. A player behind him had raised to 1,500 and Benny Spindler directly to that players left had the decision. The EPT London winner moved all in for 15,075 and the big blind almost instantly folded.
The raiser thought about it for some time before eventually calling with . Spindler turned over the for a set and raked in the double up chips after the hit the turn and hit the river.
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Ari Engel raised it up to 500 from under the gun plus one and watched as Oleg Cherepyanyy bumped it up to 1,200 from the next position. The table folded back around to Engel who called, before both players watched the flop come down .
A check call from Engel for 1,100 followed as the fell on the turn. Another check from Engel saw Cherepyanyy lead out for 1,600 which was called before both players tapped the table on the river.
Cherepyanyy then tabled his for a pair which was good enough to take down the pot as Engel mucked his hand.
Witold Wojtkow raised to 450 and got three callers, Vanessa Selbst called as well out of the big blind and they went five-way to the flop of . Only Selbst check-called a bet of 1,100 by Wojtkow and did so again for 2,300 on the turn. Once the river had completed the board, she asked her opponent for the remaining stack size and it was 10,400.
Selbst moved all in and was snap-called to see her fall short to the of Wojtkow.
Next to the feature stage is table 34 and Zohair Karim was moved there not long ago. Super High Roller champion Leonid Markin sat down maybe half an hour ago and already made some chips whereas Sabina Hiatullah and Baden Logan were seated there in level one already.
Logan four-bet a three-bet of Hiatullah from 1,400 to 4,500 and the Italian called to see the flop of . There was no action and Logan then took it down without showdown after betting the turn for 5,000.
With this table constellation we can expect quite a few fireworks in the hours to come.
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, Fahredin Mustafov bet 1,600 and Giuliano Bendinelli called. Roy folded 
turn and the 
river to give Ross a straight, Mustafov was crippled and Roy would have knocked out both opponents. Would. But he folded.
flop and Raskin had 
against the 
of the Brit. No cards could save Raskin and he took a massive hit to his stack, dwindling down to half the starting stack.
and Vanessa Selbst bet 8,800 which was a pot sized bet.
and Belov strained his neck to see what she had tabled.
the big blind had 500 in front of him. A player behind him had raised to 1,500 and Benny Spindler directly to that players left had the decision. The EPT London winner moved all in for 15,075 and the big blind almost instantly folded.
. Spindler turned over the 
hit the river.
fall short to the 
. There was no action and Logan then took it down without showdown after betting the 
