Yunye Lu raised to 100,000 from the hijack and action folded to Isaac Haxton in the big blind who shoved. Lu asked for a count and the dealer confirmed Haxton had 745,000 behind. Lu looked at his cards once more to confirm they were what he thought they were and then made the call.
Isaac Haxton:
Yunye Lu:
The board ran out for Haxton to hold with the higher pocket pair to double up.
Johan Storakers raised to 155,000 under the gun and Rui Sousa called from the cutoff.
Players saw a flop of and Storakers checked. Sousa bet 150,000 and Storakers check-called. The dealer burned and turned the and Storakers check-called another bet of 400,000 from Sousa. The filled up the board and Storakers checked for a third time. Sousa fired 900,000 and Storakers with about 1,200,000 behind, thought for a long while, then folded face up.
Just before the break at the feature table, Jerry Odeen and Balakrisha Patur clashed in two back-to-back pots. First, Patur raised from under the gun with and Jerry Odeen defended the big blind with . Odeen check-called 75,000 on the flop.
The turn brought the and Odeen now check-called 150,000 from the American. On the river, Odeen checked, Patur bet 500,000, and Odeen folded the best hand.
In the subsequent hand, Pascuale Braco raised to 90,000 from early position with , Jerry Odeen called from the small blind and Patur called from the big blind.
Everyone caught a piece of the flop and Braco continued for 175,000. Odeen called his top pair before Patur raised his nut flush draw to 500,000. Braco got out of the way but Odeen called.
The turn gave Patur a pair to go along with his draw. Odeen checked and Patur simply shoved it in for 1,915,000, slightly covering Odeen's remaining stack.
"Whatever, you're good," Odeen said after briefly contemplating it. The Swede added a few more remarks, not responded to by Patur, before ending with a "you've got my number".
Shannon Shorr raised the cutoff to 105,000 and Stefan Jedlicka came along to see the flop, which both players checked. On the turn, Jedlicka bet 200,000 and Shorr called before Jedlicka check-folded the river to a bet worth 250,000.
Johan Storakers defended his big blind and check-raised the flop from 100,000 to 250,000. His sole remaining opponent Rui Sousa jammed all in and Storakers called for the last 1,060,000.
Johan Storakers:
Rui Sousa:
The turn and river were both blanks and Storakers doubled.
Ut Tam Vo shoved the first time for 320,000 from the middle position but got no action. The hand after, he shoved again, this time for 445,000 and from under the gun. Action folded to Jiayuan Liu in the big blind who wished him good luck.
He looked at the first card: "The first one is a king already..." He rubbed his hands together, looked at the second card and then made the call.
Ut Tam Vo:
Jiayuan Liu:
The flop came for Liu to hit top pair.
The turn was the which gave Vo a glimmer of hope to stay alive but the river completed the board with the which didn't help Vo at all as he was sent to the rail in 27th place for €42,910.
Shannon Shor raised to 110,000 on the button and Diego Falcone defended his big blind. The flop was and Falcone checked. Shorr bet 90,000, Falcone check-raised all in for 875,000, and Shorr quickly called it off.
Diego Falcone:
Shannon Shorr:
The on the turn kept Shorr ahead but the river was huge for Falcone, saving his tournament life.
Action folded to Jonas Ten Cate who moved all in from the small blind for about 1,725,000 and Cyril Monbrun-Massot called for less from the big blind putting at risk 850,000.
Cyril Monbrun-Massot:
Jonas Ten Cate:
The board ran out and Monbrun-Massot doubled up with sixes and threes.