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.
Brian Kim has been eliminated, and he was kind enough to tell us the details.
The player to his right opened to 16,000, and with just 95,000 left Brian Kim shoved all in. Action folded back to the initial raiser who made the call holding . Kim was ahead with but the turn would do him no good: .
On a board of the small blind checked, and Sam Grafton in the big blind lead for 38,000. Eugene Katchalov flatted in middle position and Georgios Sotiropoulos shoved all in right behind him for what we believe was 197,000, but the dealer counted as 207,000. The small blind quickly folded, Grafton soon realized his hand wasn't good enough and folded, Katchalov instantly called.
Eugene Katchalov:
Georgios Sotiropoulos:
The on the turn made Katchalov drawing dead, the was just insult to injury. Katchalov had 240,000 left after that hand.
Omar Lakhdari three-bet a raise from 20,000 to 60,000 in the cutoff and was called to continue with a bet of 50,000 on the flop. His opponent called and the on the turn was checked. The river saw the Frenchman lose another 100,000 chips with pocket as his opponent check-called and then showed for a gutshot that completed on the river.
In the penultimate hand of the day the tournament lost one of Team PokerStars Pro's most prolific members.
Eugene Katchalov just lost the big hand with a flopped straight to a turned flush (and rivered straight flush), and moved the remainder of his stack in before the flop not much later. His opponent was once again Georgios Sotiropoulos.
Katchalov had and was up against the jacks of Sotiropoulos. No help on the board for Katchalov and with just one hand to go the Ukrainian made his exit.
Oscar Kroon opened for 17,000 and Idan Raviv in the cutoff made the call. Simon Boss in the big blind shoved all in for 147,000 and Kroon shoved over the top. Raviv knew enough and folded.
Kroon had by far the best hand holding , Boss had . Some table mates would describe him as on semi tilt afterwards, and the tilty move did not get rewarded: .
Tatiana Barausova got her 131,000 stack in before the flop holding . Evgenii Starikov was the one looking her up with . The board came and Starikov was left with just over 75,000, Barausova doubled.