The stone-cold money bubble has been reached with the elimination of Holger Bansner. He was all in for very few chips in a battle of the blinds and Hollywood looked him up out of the small blind with . Bansner only had with the flop showing and neither the turn nor the river changed anything.
As a result, the field has been reduced to the last 104 and the money bubble is now taking place.
On the heads-up turn of , Timur Caglan bet 100,000 and Ričardas Vymeris calls before the river completed the board.
Caglan again bet 100,000 from late position and Vymeris gave it some thought on the button with 152,000 left. He called and Caglan mucked, tapped the table in defeat. Vymeris showed him the and the other players at the table acknowledged a great call.
Tippy333 raised and Andreas Thomas Gondrom got his short stack into the middle of the table from one seat over. Sandro Pitzanti called and so did Tippy333.
The Dane then bet three barrels on the board of and Pitzanti called down for a far bigger side pot. In the showdown, Gondrom flashed and Tippy333 had that beat with to ensure the burst of the bubble. However, it was Pitzanti who won the entire pot with for a pair of aces.
As expected, many short stacks took their luck in the new level. Among them were the two Slovakians Roman Lakatoš and Andrej Dikos. Lakatoš lost with against and Dikos was unable to improve in a flip with against pocket fours.
First Tezer Cetindag won a flip with against the ace-queen of Gilbert Asmowidjojo on a board of and was soon after all in again, this time for 162,000.
Francisco Arce on the button and Marco Antonio Natalino in the small blind were also all in with Arce being the biggest stack.
Cetindag:
Natalino:
Arce:
The board ran out and Cetindag tripled whereas Natalino doubled through Arce for 200,000 after having paid off Cetindag.
Earlier today, Karol Janiszewski had doubled through Tomer Aminpourna and the dup just clashed again. The Pole raised to 34,000 from early position and Aminpour defended his big blind.
The flop came and Aminpour check-raised all in, receiving a snap-call by Janiszewski.
Aminpour:
Janiszewski:
Neither the turn nor the river changed anything and Aminpour headed to the rail. There are only 89 players remaining, more than one dozen participants joined the rail within 20 minutes of the level.
Antonio Turrisi had a squeeze to 56,000 in front and Xavier Vidal then moved all in for 158,000 from one seat over. Action folded back to Turrisi, who quickly called.
Vidal:
Turrisi:
The board ran out and Turrisi's aces were cracked.