Andreas Vlachos was all in preflop for his last 52,000 chips and initial raiser Gleb Tremzin called with . Vlachos was well ahead with but the Russian made a flush on the board.
Sergey Lebedev three-bet a raise of Georgios Sotiropoulos from 14,000 to 36,000 and was called to go heads-up to the flop of . The Greek check-called a bet of 42,000 before the turn was checked. On the river, Sotiropoulos checked again and then folded to another heavy bet.
Peter Turmezey opened for 12,000 and got called by the cutoff and button before Glib Kovtunov shoved all in fromt he small blind for 44,000. The big blind folded and Turmezey thought for a bit before isolating to 80,000. The cutoff and button quickly folded and the hands were turned over.
Peter Turmezey:
Glib Kovtunov:
Kovtunov got up from the table as if he knew what was going to happen. Turmezey, one of the earliest internet famous young online MTT players, indeed hit top pair: . The on the turn and on the river didn't change a thing anymore and Kovtunov made his way to the exit.
The action started with Sam Grafton raising to 13,000 from the hijack. Francesco Grieco made the call from the button before Yann Dion had a decision to make on the big blind. He opted to move all in for 144,000 which was enough to force a fold from Grafton. Grieco asked for a count before making the call.
Grieco:
Dion:
The board ran out to see Grieco spike an ace on the flop to take down the pot.
Andrey Zaichenko three-bet shoved to put Bjorn Wiesler at risk and the German as initial raiser happily called for his last 294,000 chips with . Zaichenko, who was the chip leader after Day 1b, only had and couldn't get there on a board of .
Akin Tuna raised to 16,000 out of the cutoff and was called by Sergey Lebedev on the button-seat and the player in the big blind. On the flop, the third player got out of the way and Lebedev called a continuation bet of 22,000 by Tuna. The German then check-called a bet of 32,000 on the turn and checked again the river.
Lebedev moved all in and Tuna called with only to see the Russian turn over for the better hand.
Miltiadis Kyriakides opened to 12,000 and Praz Bansi called before Kai Herold three-bet on the button to 33,000.
Kyriakides clarified the bet before sliding out a raise to around 100,000. Bansi folded and when it got back to Herold he moved all in and was instantly called.
Herold flipped over his and when he saw the of Kyriakides muttered, “I am so dead.”
Indeed he was as the board ran out to send Herod to the rail and put Kyriakides’s stack at over a million.
"All in and a call!" we heard coming from the dealer at one of the outer tables in the room. We rushed over and saw Quentin Lecomte open up while Ilkin Amirov had in front of him.
Lecomte got lucky on the flop hitting , but things turned sour for the Frenchman on the turn: . The on the river didn't change a thing and Lecomte made his way to the exit.