Yurii Zdanovskyi defended his small blind against a raise by Denis Pavlenko and checked the flop. Pavlenko bet 8,000 with 82,500 behind and faced a check-raise to 100,000 by Zdanovskyi. A few minutes of table chat in Russian followed and Pavlenko folded, he was then shown .
Over on table five, Maxim Lykov raised to 8,000 and Olga Finogenova shoved from one seat over for 35,000. Lykov eventually folded and Finogenova stayed in.
Vladimir Dobrovolskiy shoved for what appeared to be 70,000 and the action folded around to Jonas Lauck. Until then, the German had not checked his cards and peeked at them, a snap-call followed right after.
Vladimir Dobrovolskiy:
Jonas Lauck:
The flop was barely any hope for Dobrovolskiy, but he picked up some outs on the turn with a gutshot. A blank followed on the river and that sent Dobrovolskiy out in 62nd place.
Mikalai Vaskaboinikau defended his big blind against a button raise by Pavel Shirshikov. By the time the river had come and showed , Vaskaboinikau bet 21,000 for one third of his remaining stack. Shirshikov called and mucked when he was shown for a straight by Vaskaboinikau.
Close to the money the all in spots usually involve a very tight range of hands and it was no surprise to see two premium hands clash one table over. Anton Gilivov was the initial raiser from under the gun and Kostiantyn Tupalo gave him some action. Ultimately it was Tupalo who ended up at risk for more than 100,000 and soon found out that he'd tapped into a cooler.
Pavel Ignatov jammed a tiny stack from late position and Ruslan Voitovich called in the big blind with . Ignatov showed and doubled on a board of .
One table over, Timur Bubnov opened to 9,500 and Dmitry Vitkind three-bet to 26,000 on the button. Daniil Kiselev forfeited his small blind and Bubnov called. The flop came and Bubnov checked, then folded to Vitkind's continuation bet of 20,500.
In the last hand before the break, Jason Wheeler opened to 9,000 and was called by Nikolay Prokhorskiy from two seats over and Mikhail Galitski in the big blind. The flop of was checked to Wheeler and his first barrel worth 13,500 was called by both opponents.
On the turn, Galitski checked and Wheeler fired a second barrel of 26,000. This time, only Prokhorskiy called and the came on the river. Wheeler made it 68,000 to go and Prokhorskiy had slightly more than that behind. "I don't know man, it might be ICM suicide," Prokhorskiy said half in Russian, half in English.
The call came half a minute later and Wheeler rolled over for a full house to claim a big pot several minutes into the break.
After coming back from the break, Jason Wheeler opened to 10,000 and Nikolay Prokhorskiy shoved for 22,500. The action folded back to Wheeler and he called.
Nikolay Prokhorskiy:
Jason Wheeler:
The board ran out and that was it for the Russian.
Over on table four, Anton Gililov raised and called the shove of short stack Pavel Ignatov for 28,000 with . Ignatov had the and the kicker played on a board of .
flop. Pavlenko bet 8,000 with 82,500 behind and faced a check-raise to 100,000 by Zdanovskyi. A few minutes of table chat in Russian followed and Pavlenko folded, he was then shown 
.
flop was barely any hope for Dobrovolskiy, but he picked up some outs on the 
turn with a gutshot. A blank 
followed on the river and that sent Dobrovolskiy out in 62nd place.
, Vaskaboinikau bet 21,000 for one third of his remaining stack. Shirshikov called and mucked when he was shown 
for a straight by Vaskaboinikau.
. Ignatov showed 
.
came on the river. Wheeler made it 68,000 to go and Prokhorskiy had slightly more than that behind. "I don't know man, it might be ICM suicide," Prokhorskiy said half in Russian, half in English.
and that was it for the Russian.
. Ignatov had the 
and the kicker played on a board of