On the turn of a board, Miltiadis Kyriakides check-raised all in out of the big blind for 165,000 and Marko Ilicic called after having fired 75,000.
Ilicic:
Kyriakides:
The river was a blank and the Greek doubled with the table also including former chip leader Steven Stephan. Johnny Hansen and Zoltan Gal are there too and now took over the role as big stacks.
Apparently there has been a power cut in the city and the casino currently runs on their own power systems, though the internet cuts off from time to time. In the meanwhile, the field has been reduced to the final 46 players and the seat open occur again quite frequently.
Janathan Klüpfel went out in 45th place after his flush on a board of with was dominated by a full house from Nick Krasniqi who was holding . Klüpfel banked €3,679 after just making the next money jump.
Alexandar Denishev raised to 25,000 from early position and Vasili Firsau called before Ömer Cubukcu shoved from the button for 293,000. Atik Miah called all in for less out of the big blind and Denishev asked for a count before making the call. Firsau folded the and made the correct decision.
Denishev:
Miah:
Cubukcu:
The board ran out and Denishev made a full house to bust two short stacks.
Quirin Zech opened the action with a raise and Patryk Chaciak shoved for around 120,000 chips with the . Zech called with and locked up the hand on the turn of a board. Right after, the table broke and the field had been reduced to the last 40 hopefuls.
Stefan Raschbauer raised and Nick Krasniqi three-bet to 64,000 before the action reached Ali Sameeian in the small blind. He moved all in for just under half a million in chips and both his opponents folded. "Half an hour ago I just had 100,000. I have one of the three best hands," Sameeian said and stacked the chips.
Miltiadis Kyriakides won a WSOP Golden Ring early in the series in the PLO8 event, and has been one of the more entertaining players to watch. In that event, he had a prop bet where he won €1,000 which involved a coin-flip as to whether he needed to make the final table or win the tournament. Whether or not the prop bet provided extra motivated for Kyriakides, isn't known, but it is apparent he likes to have fun on the tables.
While receiving a massage, he announced, "I am going to play a pot. I always play from the big blind." The action folded around to Johnny Hansen in the small blind. The Greek proclaimed without looking at his cards, "Everyone folded, I have at least one ace."
Hansen keeps to himself, but appeared to be undeterred. He raised the action preflop which Kyriakides calls after taking a look at his cards for the first time. The flop came and Hansen fired a bet for 26,000 which Kyriakides quickly called. Both players checked on the turn of . Hansen checked again when comes, however, Kyriakides fired out a bet for 200,000 which Hansen called.
Kyriakides turns over for the full house and Hansen mucks his hand.
Marek Blasko raised for all but a few chips behind from under the gun and Thomas Erler made the call, exposing his cards in the without noticing that Blasko in the eight seat had chips behind.
Blasko committed the rest with ace-ten and the board ran out to award the chips to Erler. He then received a one round penalty for exposing his cards out of turn.
Süleyman Erdar was the initial raiser and Alexandar Denishev had defended his big blind. Quite a nice pot emerged until the river of a board and Denishev fired 181,000. Erdar tanked for a while and then called, claiming a lower flush when getting shown the by Denishev.