Alexandru "steakaddict." Papazian limped the cutoff, Luis "luis_faria" Faria raised to 140,000 on the button and Niklas "Lena900" Astedt called from the big blind. Papazian limp-raised to 1,200,000, Faria folded and Astedt jammed. Papazian threw is last 156,560 into the middle and was at risk.
Alexandru "steakaddict" Papazian:
Niklas "Lena900" Astedt:
The sweat was real for Papazin after a flop spread on the virtual felt, giving Astedt a flush draw to go with his over.
A turn added some straight outs for Astedt but not a thing connected for him on the river. Papazian scooped in a complete double with his set of ducks.
Vlada "Vlada2108" Stojanovic was looking at an 80,000 open by "tarantaleo" when he three-bet to 232,000 and "tarantaleo" called to see the flop.
The action checked to Stojanovic, he bet 135,340, "tarantaleo" check-called and the then peeled off.
Both tapped to the river where Stojanovic pushed. "tatantaleo" check-called his last 459,701, tabling for aces over treys but it was not even close when Stojanovic showed .
The flopped eight of Stojanovic took down the pot, eliminating "tarantaleo" from the field.
Before the break, Dalton "daltonhb" Hobold opened to 80,000 from middle position and Simon "C. Darwin2" Mattsson made it 388,000 to go, sitting in the small blind.
Hobold called to see the flop where Mattsson fired in 654,760. Hobold again called, bringing down the turn card.
Mattsson jammed for barely enough to cover Hobold who snap-called, tabling . Mattsson was absolutely dominated when he showed his and a chip lead pot looked to be within reach for Hobold.
An unlikely fell, saving the day for Mattsson. Hobold took an exit on a gross river, and Mattsson then took the lead.
The action folded around to Gabriel "aaurelio" Moura in the small blind, he limped and a raise of 157,500 came from "vm174" in the big blind. Moura three-bet shoved and "vm174" snapped it off.
Gabriel "aaurelio" Moura:
"vm174":
The board came down and a set of queens secured the pot for "vm174". Moura took an exit, shipping his bounty over to "vm174".
Andriy "Andre_Hansen" Lyubovetskiy raised to 132,000 from middle position and Yago "yhsimplicio" Simplicio piled in 450,000, three-betting from the cutoff. Lyubovetskiy four-bet to 1,050,000 and Simplicio flatted.
Lyubovetskiy bet 360,000 after the flop landed and Simplicio called. A turn peeled off, Lyubovetskiy shoved 1,490,543 and Simplicio called with ease.
Simplicio turned over and had Lyubovetskiy drawing dead to the river after he showed .
Simplicio took down the pot, catapulting his stack into first on the leaderboard.