The dealer announced the seat open already and Gailius Modestas was spotted on his way out of the chair en route to a long waiting line at the payout desk. His were already mucked as the pot was shipped to Charles Grigoriu, who had gotten there with the .
While ahead preflop, Grigoriu fell behind on the flop and still trailed on the turn. However, the fell on the river and gave Grigoriu the superior two pair and a modest boost to his stack.
A short-stacked Miguel Knafo Gutierrez was all-in for around seven blinds with the . He was looked up by David Nunez Arguello with the and the best case scenario with a coin flip unfolded.
The flop vaulted Knafo into the lead but the turn left him drawing dead, which made the river bitter sweet. "One more card please," Knafo joked on his way out.
With the bubble finally bursting, several short stacks who had hung around quickly vanished and the field almost immediately dropped below 300 hopefuls.
Jose Valls was left with crumbs and essentially all-in blind out of the big blind with the . Mihai Ghergu tabled the from under the gun and the board gave Valls a miracle straight to retain his chances of a deeper run.
Another three all-in and call during the next hand brought one double up in the Mandalay Room.
Up next, Ouajdi Oueslati three-bet jammed for 63,000 in the big blind and he was called by the initial raiser Adriano Abbracciavento from the cutoff.
Ouajdi Oueslati:
Adriano Abbracciavento:
The French rail celebrated on the board as Oueslati secured the double up.
Last but not least, a battle of the blinds saw the raise by Alexandre Dana to 35,000 and he then called the shove by Thomas Santerne for what appeared to be 292,000 in the big blind.
Thomas Santerne:
Alexandre Dana:
The board kept the jacks in the lead and the bubble eventually burst.
Mehdi El Meray jammed a shorter stack with the into the of Roberto Gioffre and found no luck on the board to bust in 314th place.
There was one more all-in showdown in which Julien Lemee got the last trey blinds in from the big blinds with . Ivan Camacho Armentero had raised from under the gun with but the overcards got there on the board.