Arne Ruge (small blind) three-betted and called the shove of his opponent in the cutoff. Ruge was at risk with the shorter stack of 3,140,000.
Arne Ruge:
Cutoff:
The flop came , his opponent had flopped two pair. The turn brought them the but the river completed the board with the which gave Ruge a set and kept him in the tournament.
Martin Staszko almost up for 2.795 million when his when Vasyl Penteliuk looked him up with the and Andrea Piazza went into the showdown as shortest stack with the . The board came and all three players hit their sets.
Roberto Romanello took a big hit to his stack when Barny Boatman doubled through him for 1.82 million with versus , the board ran out .
Jon Kyte had a huge grin on his face when the live reporting team walked past him.
"13 million!" he said. "Easy game, you just play. Won a small flip against Martin Finger. He shoved all-in from the small blind for about 14 big blinds with sixes. I called with ace-seven. Seven on the river. That guy (pointing to another player at the table) was unlucky to have pocket nines. He folded on the river on my big bet."
He then whispered: "I had queens, you can put it on the blog. He's Welsh, he doesn't read it anyways."
raketak was spotted all in for 4.8 million on the turn of a board and his sole remaining opponent was Vlad Darie, who had some 2.5 million behind. There were more than 3.2 million in the pot and Darie tank-folded.
Aleš Karban raised to 175,000 and Vlado Banicevic three-bet out of the bib blind to 475,000, Karban called. On the flop, Banicevic continued for 300,000 and Karban raised it up to 725,000, Banicevic called. On the turn, Banicevic checked and check-raised to 2.8 million over the top of a 900,000-bet by Karban to force a fold.
According to the screens there are only 272 players remaining and among the latest batch of bustouts were Steve O'Dwyer, Martin Finger, Bartlomiej Machon and Michal Mrakes.
Andrew Ross Laurie raised to 180,000 from mid-position and action folded to Georgios Zisimopoulos in the small blind who three-bet to 835,000. After some careful consideration, Laurie called.
The flop came , Zisimopoulos continued with a bet of 450,000 and Laurie folded.
- partypoker Sponsored pro, Dzmitry Urbanovich, has unfortunately been eliminated but the details of the hand are unknown.
- The player in the small blind completed and Julian Thomas opted to check his big blind. They both checked through the on the flop and the on the turn to the on the river. The small blind check-folded to the 210,000 bet of Thomas.
- Henk van der Heijden raised to 115,000 from the cutoff and was called by Manig Loeser in the big blind. The flop came , Loeser check-called the 175,000 bet of Van der Heijden. They both checked through the on the turn to the on the river. Loeser bet 490,000, Van der Heijden raised to 1,000,000 and Loeser folded immediately. Loeser went down to 4,300,000 but shortly after managed to win again to take him back up to around 7,000,000.
"What the ..." Greko Gregor said after he just departed from his table. According to Oliver Price, the German with Greek roots was involved in a three-bet pot with against the of Vasyl Penteliuk and check-shoved the flop with a flush draw only for the Russian with the inferior flush draw to get there.
Right after, Vasyl Zabrodskyy raised in the hijack and called the shove of Andrea Piazza for 935,000 with the . Piazza had and the board came to give the Italian a full house.