With dozens of players below or just over ten blinds as soon as the bubble had burst, the floodgates opened very quickly and more than two dozen players hit the rail in a blink.
Belarmino De Souza bet the turn and Joachim "jochee" Haraldstad opted to check-raise the pot to 108,000 out of the small blind. De Souza called and they got the rest of it in after the river.
Haraldstad tabled for two pair but De Souza had the best of it with for a set of sevens.
On a flop of the action escalated between Jens "Tankanza" Lakemeier and Mark "Beanboozled" Herm with the former at risk in a pot of nearly two times the average.
Jens "Tankanza" Lakemeier:
Mark "Beanboozled" Herm:
The turn changed little nor did the river as Lakemeier doubled.
Just before the blinds went up, Chris "FamousJameis" Conrad raised to 24,500 with very few chips behind from the under the gun position. Andriy "smbcall911" Lyubovetskiy three-bet and Conrad called all-in when it was his turn to act.
Chris "FamousJameis" Conrad:
Andriy "smbcall911" Lyubovetskiy:
On a board of , Lyubovetskiy flopped the nuts and dodged the flush draw to eliminate Conrad, who fell just shy of the top 100 and a pay jump.
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GGPoker online streamer Michiel "Easterdamnz" Van Elsacker has just scored a big double in a battle of the blinds. With 60,000 in the middle to the flop the chips went in against Lim "BoomPiPi" Jing Jie.
Michiel "Easterdamnz" Van Elsacker:
Lim "BoomPiPi" Jing Jie:
The board completed with the turn and the river to improve Van Elsacker to a full house.