David Peters opened to 90,000 from early position and Antoine Saout re-raised to 1,025,000 from the cutoff. The action folded back to Peters who eyed up the remaining 55,000 chips in front of Saout and then shoved all in himself. Saout obviously called and tabled . Peters was slightly behind with the .
The flop came and both players flopped top pair with Saout holding the better kicker. The turn was the and the river landed the , giving Saout a full double up at the hands of Peters.
Davidi Kitai raised to 80,000 under the gun. Mikita Badziakouski moved all in for 420,000 one seat over and action got folded to Kitai. Despite the good price, Kitai didn't like it, and he took nearly two minutes before calling it off.
Davidi Kitai:
Mikita Badziakouski:
Badziakouski got there right away on an board and doubled up.
Down to his last 700,000, Jean-Noel Thorel limped in from the small blind. Dominik Nitsche raised from the big blind, Thorel limp-shoved and Nitsche called it off.
Jean-Noel Thorel:
Dominik Nitsche:
Thorel flopped an eight on the flop. The turn and river, however, favored Nitsche with and , and Thorel was out.
Benjamin Pollak and Kenny Hallaert are a couple of the recent eliminations as their seats were seen vacant. Both players will have the option to rebuy should they choose to do so with late registration staying open until the beginning of level 13 on Day 2.
Jean-Noel Thorel has rebought himself right back in, bumping the total number of players to 100. 72 of them are still in contention near the end of level 8.
With the pot having around 250,000 in the middle already, Koray Aldemir bet 175,000 from the hijack on a board reading . Dario Sammartino was sitting in the cutoff and made the call.
The river brought the , putting two four-card straights on the board. Aldemir fired another 480,000 and Sammartino leaned back in his seat with his hands on his head. He tanked for over two minutes and then looked across the dealer at Aldemir, trying to get a read on him. Aldemir turned away from the table, hiding his face from Sammartino who eventually folded.
"I folded a straight," Sammartino pointed out after the hand. "I never thought I would ever fold a straight."
Jan Schwippert raised to 90,000 from under the gun, Jordi Urlings three-bet to 290,000 on the button, Sam Trickett cold-called from the small blind and Schwippert called as well.
Despite the substantial preflop action, Schwippert would be the only one to put a bet in postflop. After the flop got checked around, Schwippert took it with a 550,000 bet on the turn.
and Katchalov moved all in.
. Eiler turned over 
and handed over the chips.
. Peters was slightly behind with the 
.
and both players flopped top pair with Saout holding the better kicker. The turn was the 
and the river landed the 
, giving Saout a full double up at the hands of Peters.
board and doubled up.
, and Thorel was out.
. Dario Sammartino was sitting in the cutoff and made the call. 
for the straight and Holz mucked.
