Joao "vovo_leo" Studart in the big blind battled with Anton "Bomber&Granater" Wigg in early position and it was a fair flip with Wigg at risk.
Anton "Bomber&Granater" Wigg:
Joao "vovo_leo" Studart:
The board came and that left the Brazilian very short, he bowed out to Wigg a couple of hands later and was replaced by late entrant Elior "Crazy Elior" Sion.
Sergei "Futti18" Koliakov raised it up to 16,960 in the cutoff and "fers223" called on the button. Konstantin "krakukra" Maslak three-bet to 73,675 from the small blind and Koliakov got out of the way. This prompted the shove of "fers223" for more than 475k effective and Maslak called after some consideration.
Konstantin "krakukra" Maslak:
"fers223":
Board:
The queens held up to send the former SCOOP player of the year on a stack of nearly one million in chips.
"pita1" won a pot of more than 250k when his hit a set on the flop and turned a full house on the board to boost their stack to nearly 900k.
On the same table, Andrew "ClockWyze" Pantling had even more than that but doubled "Lindk25" when for top pair on a three-way flop of was second-best heading into the showdown versus . The turn and the river runout failed to improve Pantling, instead, "Lindk25" even hit a set of kings.
Ramon "RamonColillas" Colillas raised it up to 16,720 and was called by Joao "Naza114" Vieira who had fewer than 100k behind to the flop on which they got it in as follows:
Joao "Naza114" Vieira:
Ramon "RamonColillas" Colillas:
The turn gave Vieira an additional gutshot but the river kept Colillas in the lead with his nutflush.
At nearly the same time on a different table, Daniel "DANMERRRRRRR" Merrilees limped the cutoff, the button limped and Ludovic "ludovi333" Geilich raised to 48,000 with 184,502 behind out of the small blind. Merrilees jammed and Geilich used his time bank before calling it off.
Ludovic "ludovi333" Geilich:
Daniel "DANMERRRRRRR" Merrilees:
The board instantly gave Merrilees quads on the flop.
Shortly after, Merrilees scored another knockout when his flip with against the of "WalmartCNXN" hit a flush on the river.
Another Brit then took the vacated seat of Geilich as Conor "1_conor_b_1" Beresford arrived with a stack of more than a million.
Among others, Samuel "€urop€an" Vousden was eliminated by Andrew "ClockWyze" Pantling when he came up short with against on a board of and Pantling then moved up to more than 1.5 million in chips prior to the next scheduled 5-minute break.
Francisco "Tomatee" Benitez also joined the chip millionaires when he held up with against the of "edoiler" on a board of and held a top 10 stack with 219 players out of 405 entries remaining.
On a board of , Vezhenkov rivered a full house for good measure.
Other big names that ran out of chips and will have to re-enter include Anton "Bomber&Granater" Wigg (against Vezhenkov), Joao "Naza114" Vieira on his second bullet, Christian "WATnlos" Rudolph and Kayhan "KayhanMok" Roshanfekr.
Just a few days ago, "Alexgirs" claimed the title in the $10,300 SCOOP Main Event and he was left very short just now on his first bullet in the Main Event 2nd Chance. The Belorussian got it in with against the of "Hasseh922" and tripled up thanks to the chips in the middle on a runout.
Ilya "Leqenden" Anatsky got it in with a flip against the of Artem "veeea" Vezhenkov and the board left him drawing dead on the turn.
A short-stacked Juan "Malaka$tyle" Pardo was at risk preflop for fewer than 10 blinds with out of the small blind against the of button raiser Alexandros "mexican222" Kolonias. The [JdJc9ds3d] board improved Kolonias to superior two pair.