Roman Emelyanov raised to 55,000 in the cutoff and called a three-bet to 145,000 from Viliyan Petleshkov on the button. Emelyanov checked the flop, Petleshkov bet 135,000 and the Russian check-raised to 375,000.
Visibly annoyed, Petleshkov asked how much the raise was, then folded his hand shortly after. Two hands later, Petleshkov open-shoved 23bb in middle position to pick up the blinds and antes.
Preben Stokkan in the cutoff made it 50,000 to go and Sergio Aido called on the button. Kfir Ivgi in the small blind seemed interested but folded, while Hossein Ensan in the big blind moved all in. The shove was for 567,000 and Stokkan jammed over the top to force out Aido.
Hossein Ensan:
Preben Stokkan:
"Good luck my friend," Ivgi said to Ensan and added "good luck to you also" towards Stokkan. The board came and Ensan spiked a jack to double in the last hand of the level.
After two levels and the additional seven minutes of the previous night, the field has been reduced from 16 to 12 and they have been sent into a 15-minute break.
The action was on Guillaume Pau Davy on the button and he moved all in for 320,000. Roman Emelyanov glanced over out of the big blind to see the stack of the Frenchman and called.
Guillaume Pau Davy:
Roman Emelyanov:
Davy had two live cards, but was drawing to a chop only after the flop and turn. A blank river sent Davy to the rail in 12th place for €38,100.
It has been quite a week for the 21-year old, who started playing poker one year ago and attended a boot camp of Johan "YoH ViraL" Guilbert on Malta earlier this year. Davy min-cashed the Main Event and decided to jump into the High Roller, turning that into quite a nice payday.
Sergio Aido made it 60,000 to go on the button and Hossein Ensan called in the big blind. On the flop, Ensan checked and called a continuation bet for 80,000. Ensan bet the turn for 105,000 and Aido called.
The on the river went check, check, and Ensan was first to show, flipping over for bottom pair. That was enough to win the pot, though, as Aido mucked.
Ben Heath raised to 60,000 under the gun, Tsugunari Toma three-bet shoved 430,000 from the big blind and Heath instantly called.
Ben Heath:
Tsugunari Toma:
Toma found himself on the brink of elimination and the rundown meant sayonara for the Japanese high roller. He said his goodbyes in 11th place and received €43,400.
Viliyan Petleshkov moved all in for 580,000 from early position and Ben Heath called out of the big blind. Both were about to flip over their cards before noticing that a hand was still in progress on the other table. Once that was done, the showdown proceeded.
Viliyan Petleshkov:
Ben Heath:
The flop gave Petleshkov some more outs with a gutshot straight draw, but the turn and river were both blanks.
Petleshkov was eliminated in 10th place for €43,400 and the remaining nine hopefuls will now combine to one table. A short break is to follow and the new seat assignments will be available shortly.
The first hand of the unofficial final table provided some action right away and it was start-of-the-day chip leader Sergio Aido that ended up as short stack.
Danny tang opened to 70,000 and Aido called out of the small blind. On the flop both players checked and Aido bet the turn for 145,000, Tang called. On the river, Aido made it 320,000 to go and Tang called.
Aido rolled over for top pair, but Tang had that beat with for aces and sixes.