Artem Savchenko opened to 6,000 from the cutoff and one seat over, Chris Moneymaker bumped it up to 15,000. Action folded back around to Savchenko who though for a moment before announcing a four-bet to 41,000.
Moneymaker cut down his stack, gave his decision some thought, and slid his cards into the muck.
Igor Dimitrijevic opened to 7,000 from the button and called the shove of Yurii Zdanovskyi with . Zdanovskiy only had but got there on the board .
Soon after, Michal Majewski and Yehor Filipenko tangled in a pot. The former shoved the river for 37,000 and Filipenko asked for a count before calling. Majewski was bluffing with and Filipenko claimed the pot with for two pair.
There were two seat open on the feature table early on. The first to go was Andrey Morgun and Igor Sharaskin just followed. Alexey Nikolenko raised to 7,000 and Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier called from one seat over in the small blind. Sharaskin shoved for 34,000 in the big blind and Nikolenko eventually folded, Grospellier called.
Bertrand Grospellier:
Igor Sharaskin:
The board came and Sharaskin was drawing dead after the turn already.
An orbit earlier Jason Wheeler had opened the action and folded to a shove from Konstantin Tolokno and the same just happened.
Wheeler opened for 7,000 and Tolokno moved in for 54,000. Wheeler decided to let him know his thoughts.
“You don’t like this tournament? I don’t know how many more nice hands I can fold to you. Next time I have to call out of principle. I’m not the Bank of America.”
With a bit more than 30,000 in the middle of a board, Vladimir Troyanovskiy and Chris Moneymaker both checked to see the complete the board on the river. Troyanovskiy led with a bet of 13,500 and Moneymaker called. Troyanovskiy tabled missing his flush and Moneymaker took down the pot with .
Boris Yanpolskiy lost a flip for around 100,000 with ace-king against the pocket queens of Jonas Lauck and soon after the next player would run out of chips.
Dmitriy Motorov shoved for his last 37,500 and Aram Vartevanyan called. Dmitry Nikitin shoved over the top out of the big blind and that got Vartevanyan out of the way.
Artsiom Zhadinsky opened to 7,500 from early position and Alexander Lakhov three-bet to 20,000 in the hijack, which Zhadinsky called. On a flop of , Zhadinsky check-raised from 18,000 to 55,000 and Lakhov called to see the pot grow to 158,000. Zhadinsky had 166,500 left and moved all in, and Lahkov called with the superior stack.
Artsiom Zhadinsky:
Alexander Lakhov:
The on the river was a blank and Zhadinsky doubled.
Hand 2
Zhadinsky opened and Dmitry Manashov called in the cutoff. Vladislav Tonkikh shoved for 59,000 in the big blind and Zhadinsky called, Manashov folded.
Vladislav Tonkikh:
Artsiom Zhadinsky:
It was all good for Tonkikh on the flop and the turn, but the river gave Zhadinsky a set and he busted Tonkikh.
Hand 3
Now it was Manashov that shoved for his last 30,500 and Zhadinsky called in the big blind. Manashov had and Zhadinsky looked him up with . It looked certain to be three in a row for Zhadinsky after the flop, but Manashov imprved on the turn and held up thanks to the river to double.
Ivan Kozyrev moved all-in preflop, and Pavel Kovalenko put him at risk.
Kozyrev:
Kovalenko:
Kozyrev was in pretty good shape but a flop gave Kovalenko the lead. Needing a ten or any six or jack to make a straight, Kozyrev bricked out and was eliminated.