Another level has been completed in the EPT Cyprus Main Event, and 218 players remain. They've been sent on a 20-minute break with the bubble likely to burst in Level 14 as 199 players make the money.
Check out the highlights from Level 13:
Kim Wittendorf and Julien Sitbon were heads up on a completed board of 3♣8♠4♥K♣2♣. Sitbon checked from under the gun before Wittendorf bet out 12,000 into the pot of 35,000.
Sitbon mulled it over for a while but ended up making the call. Wittendorf tabled 9♥8♥ for a pair of eights, and it was enough to rake in the pot as Sitbon mucked his cards.
Meanwhile, Ankit Ahuja is also on this table and is looking to make another deep run after winning the $1,100 Eureka Main Event earlier this week.
With around 30,000 in the pot on a board of 4♠K♣4♦2♥, David Kaufmann bet 24,000 from the small blind and Raul Gallego called in early position.
The river came the 8♥ and Kaufmann moved all in, having Gallego's remaining 80,000 well covered.
A few players at the table got up and started walking around as Gallego tanked for several minutes. "Every hand is 15 minutes. Right now I don't mind, but usually I would call the clock 10 times," one of them said.
The clock was eventually called on Gallego, who then tossed his cards away.
Mark Buckley raised to 5,000 under the gun and Alexandre Reard called in the small blind before big blind Adi Rajkovic three-bet to 16,500. Buckley then moved all in, Reard folded, but Rajkovic called for his last 48,000.
Adi Rajkovic: A♣K♣
Mark Buckley: A♦8♦
Buckley let out a loud groan as soon as Rajkovic called. He needed help on the board but none arrived as the dealer turned over 3♦2♦9♣5♣9♥, giving Rajkovic a double up.
A few hands earlier at this table, Kayhan Mokri and Lukas Robinson saw a flop of 5♦10♣7♥ when Mokri bet 14,000, Robinson raised to 45,000, Mokri moved all in, and Robinson called for around 100,000 more.
Lukas Robinson: 10♦7♦
Kayhan Mokri: 7♠5♠
Both players had flopped two pair, but Robinson was ahead and poised for a double up until the 5♥ fell on the turn and Mokri made a full house. The river was the 4♠ and Robinson was eliminated.
"I f**ked him over pretty good. And then he disappeared," Mokri said.
Chipleader Parker Talbot and Gerard Carbo had escalated a blind-on-blind battle to the point that there were 60,000 chips in the pot on a completed board of 5♣10♣8♣Q♣9♠, and Talbot put in another 53,000 from the small blind.
Carbo sat in the big blind and made a raise to 123,000. Parker went with his hands in his hair and thought it over for a minute or so before calling the clock on himself. He would not make the decision in time, resulting in his cards hitting the muck at the end of the 30-second mark, accidentally exposing his J♣ in the process.
Carbo then was kind enough to allow Talbot to pick one of his cards to show the table, and Parker picked the 10♥, leading to a loud expletive arising from the PokerStars Ambassador.
Johan Schultz-Pedersen opened to 5,000 from the button and called when Michel Molenaar made it 20,000 from the small blind.
Schultz-Pedersen called a bet of 12,500 on the A♣K♠3♠ flop. On the Q♠ turn, Molenaar check-folded to a bet of 20,000.
Mustafa Biz raised to 5,500 from under the gun and Seyedali Hosseinirami called from middle position. The action then folded to Yassin Mahmoud in the big blind, who put forth a three-bet to 22,500. Biz folded but Hosseinirami still stuck around and called.
The flop of K♥6♣J♣ saw Mahmoud think for a while before sliding out a small bet of 13,000. It was enough to win him the pot, however, when Hosseinirami mucked his cards. Mahmoud has known a terrific start of the day and chipped up even further by winning this pot.
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