A player with only 41,000 jammed on the button, and Viacheslav Belyaev woke up with in the big blind and called. His opponent had a measly and saw the board run out to leave him dead on fourth street.
Rumen Nanev eventually busted only a few minutes later and he was soon followed by Samy Salah. The latter min-raised from middle position and Andrew Hulme called in the big blind.
On the flop, Hulme check-called a continuation bet for around 20,000 before checking again the turn. Salah shoved for his last 90,000 and Hulme called after brief consideration.
Samy Salah:
Andrew Hulme:
"Of course," Salah said after noticing that he was behind, and that didn't change with the river anymore either to eliminate the Frenchman.
While many hands have been going quickly, with the field getting smaller, some hands are taking 10 minutes or even more to complete.
Konstantin Uspenskiy opened up in early position to 13,000. The action folded around to Paul-Francois Tedeschi who called. Both players check on the flop of .
Uspenskiy fired out a bet of 27,000 when the appeared on the turn which was quickly called by Tedeschi. Uspenskiy then went all in for 178,000 when the hit the board on the river. Tedeschi, who barely had his opponent covered with 195,000 chips at that point in the hand, went into the think tank for more than 10 minutes. Eventually, Tedeschi folded and the dealer shipped the pot over to Uspenskiy whose stack increased to 256,000.
After a raise by Nicolas Chouity, short stack Rumen Nanev shoved for only 37,000 from the button. Action folded back to Chouity, who called with . Nanev had two over cards in and got there on a board of .
Several players joined the rail soon after coming back from the break and among them was also Hulya Pehlivanlar. Short-stacked, she shoved for her last 47,000 from early position and the action folded to Tsugunari Toma in the small blind, who called with only a few chips more.
Hulya Pehlivanlar:
Tsugunari Toma:
The board came and Toma scooped the pot with a full house.
One table had still been playing well more than 10 minutes into the previous break and the board showed . Demosthenes Kiriopoulos in the big blind and Danut Chisu in the cutoff invested 100,000 each and the came on the river.
Kiriopoulos bet 67,000 only into a pot of 300,000 and Chisu eventually folded, reducing their break from 20 to just seven minutes.
The tournament is now on its second 20 minute break of the day. The field is down to 128 players. When action resumes, blinds will be 3,000/6,000 and an ante of 1,000.
After a preflop raise by Eduards Kudrjavcevs and a three-bet from Janos Kurtosi, the Latvian called and the flop showed . Kurtosi check-called a bet before the appeared don the turn.
Kurtosi checked again, Kudrjavcevs bet 80,000 and called before the came on the river. Kurtosi checked for the third street in a row and Kudrjavcevs pushed all in. Kurtosi called for 220,000 after some consideration with the and his opponent was caught bluffing with to forfeit half of his stack.