Damien Luis raised to 70,000 from under the gun and Spyridon Koukouris called on the button. The flop came and Luis bet 140,000. Koukouris raised to 325,000 and Luis carefully counted his remaining stack before opting to fold.
From under the gun, Sebastian Malec raised and Alisan Holozlu three-bet to 160,000, Malec called. The flop came and Malec checked. Holozlu bet 65,000 and Malec called.
Once the appeared on the turn, the action went check, check. After the river, Malec asked for the stack of his opponent, then bet 280,000. Holozlu folded within a few seconds.
The last 38 players have been sent into a 80-minute dinner break. They will return for two more levels of 90 minutes each at approximately 8.30 p.m. local time.
Pavel Veksler opened to 55,000 from under the gun, saw Miroslav Forman make it 155,000 from the small blind, but Alexey Romanov ramped it up even more to 275,000 from the big blind. that was enough for Veksler to slam his entire stack into the middle (571,000) and when Forman folded, Romanov called it off.
Pavel Veksler:
Alexey Romanov:
The flop of gave Veksler the lead and prompted Forman to announce to his friends that he folded pocket nines. The turn of and river of kept Veksler ahead and gave him a priceless double up.
Short stack Diego Zeiter shoved for 230,000 and Vojtech Ruzicka called from one seat over on the feature table. Mikhail Molchanov then reraised all in for 885,000 and Ruzicka called to put two opponents at risk.
Zeiter:
Molchanov:
Ruzicka:
The board came and the stack of Zeiter was chopped up, he was sent to the rail.
The cards of Erik Friberg were already in the muck when his stack was sent over to table neighbor Stephen Malone. Friberg had defended his big blind against a raise by Malone, who was in under the gun, and then shoved the flop with for top pair.
Malone called with the and the turn and river were blanks for Friberg.