With three-way action on a flop, Romain Meyer and Benny Glaser both checked to James Romero, who bet 80,000. Meyer and Glaser both came along with a call.
On the turn, Romero made it 260,000 after two checks and quickly got rid of Meyer. Glaser gave his left-hand neighbor an intense staredown before laying it down as well.
After Sam Higgs had raised in middle position, Remi Castaignon three-bet to 140,000 on the button and Higgs paid the extra chips. The flop got checked by both players.
On the turn, Higgs bet 230,000 and Castaignon called it off after about ten seconds.
The river brought the and Higgs considered his options.
"Five-hundred-seventy-five," he announced, followed by a lightning-quick call from Castaignon.
Defeated, Higgs flung open for middle pair with a queen blocker. Castaignon revealed for a set of nines to scoop the near 2M chip pot off the Aussie and move into the lead.
The action started with a raise by Morgan Aceto and Sergey Baburin three-bet from one seat over. Ramon Colillas then four-bet all in for around 350,000 in the big blind, which forced out Aceto and brought a call from Baburin with a near-identical stack.
Ramon Colillas:
Sergey Baburin:
The board brought and the stacks were counted. Baburin had 370,000 and Colillas was covered to head to the rail.
The following players got eliminated in 72nd–95th place and all received €2,750. Among the latest to depart were Maya Geller, Thierry Gogniat, and Leo Margets.
Vladyslav Pohribnyi took a hit and lost half of his stack when his could not crack the of Patmaseelan Naicker on a board of .
One table over, Shahar Levi three-bet shoved for the last 179,000 with and Sam Higgs in the cutoff called with . On a board, Levi spiked a jack to survive.
Dennis Schienagel raised to 30,000 and Jean Desmottes jammed for 159,000, which the German called after some consideration.
Desmottes tabled and Schienagel held . There was some uproar from the French players at the table when the flop fell , but Desmottes remained in contention on the turn and river run out.
Soon after, Giuliano Bendinelli raised to 30,000 first and Schienagel called from one seat over, as did Luigi Shehadeh on the button. Bruno Caron jammed for 103,000 in the big blind and that was called by Schienagel and Shehadeh.
On the flop, Schienagel jammed and Shehadeh folded with 230,000 behind.
Bruno Caron:
Dennis Schienagel:
The turn gave Caron the check mark and the river was a formality.
John Mooney had been sticking around with a severe short stack for quite some time and his grind just came to an end with against the of Shahar Levi. The board came and king-high was good enough to send Mooney to the rail.
Tamas Balogh was more fortunate when he got his 165,000 in with . Thierry Giron was way ahead preflop with , but the board gave Balogh a full house.