After some clicking back and forth, a bet of 105,000 was in front of Simon Boss, who had opened the action from early position. Idan Raviv now moved all in for 276,000 and the Swiss was sent deep into the think tank. Ultimately, Andras Nemeth called the clock on him and the one minute of consideration ran down without Boss making any decision. His hand was declared dead.
"Yeah raise, I call, call call, bet flop, call, shove shove, call" was about what Stephen Graner told us when we, with our jaws still on the ground, asked what had happened in the double knock out we just wrote down.
Graner apparently had flatted with pocket aces only to get a lot of action on the flop. On he got it in three way with his up against and for Reto Timucin Locher and Philipp Teipel.
The on the turn was a blank and the on the river didn't change anything effectively either. A double knock out made Graner the chip leader of the tournament with about half an hour on the clock. Reto Timucin Locher finished 77th as he had fewer chips than Philipp Teipel who finished 76th.
Remi Castaignon opened the action for 16,000 and then called a 36,000 three-bet from Dobromir Nikov.
It went heads-up to the flop of and when Castaignon checked Nikov bet 44,000. Castaignon check-raised all in and Nikov made the call with the smaller stack.
Castaignon showed for the straight draw and Nikov had . The turn card and river missed Castaignon to double up Nikov.
From the hijack seat, Raffaele Sorrentino four-bet shoved for 150,000 chips with and got called by Pablo Sanz Quiles in the cutoff with . It was already all over by the turn of a board.
After a raise to 16,000, Theodoros Aidonopoulos moved all in for 60,000 and Georgios Vrakas reraised to 120,000 to scare off the initial raiser. Aidonopoulos had a flip with against but could not improve on a board of .
Bjorn Wiesler had Ville Nyman at risk preflop with and saw his opponent improve with on a flop of . The on the turn now gave the German a gutshot, but it would be the on the river that awarded the pot to the better hand preflop. Nyman was sent to the rail in 72nd place and that was also the last spot to receive only €11,920.
After the turn of a board, Dylan Linde was all in and at risk with and initial raiser Nandor Solyom called from the button with . "Nice hand," Linde said and stood up, ready to leave. Instead, the on the river gave him a flush and he sat back down.
First [Removed:2] doubled up for 121,000 with against the of Praz Bansi on a board of . The Brit had 75,000 left after the hand and doubled once before then being at risk for 157,000 with against the of Miltiadis Kyriakides.