The seat of former big stack Vitaliy Li is empty and Timofey Vekshin has emerged as the new chip leader. Andriena Nutt has been eliminated as well while Paul Michaelis and Arunas Sapitavicius have joined the field.
Michaelis raised to 25,000 from the hijack and the cutoff three-bet to 65,000. The small blind called and Michaelis wasted little time before four-betting to 225,000 in order to force two folds.
A loud scream emerged from the tournament area and it took no longer than one second to recognise the voice of Mikhail Korotkikh. On his second bullet, he check-shoved a jack-high flop with pocket kings and Kelly Ince quickly looked him up with pocket aces. A king on the turn was the reason for Korotkikh's celebration, as the Russian bumped his stack to two million.
Right after, table big stack Nikolai Tulin raised to 25,000 on the button and partypoker sponsored pro Jan-Peter Jachtmann called in the small blind. On the flop both players checked before Jachtmann bet the turn for 25,000, Tulin called.
The fell on the river and Jachtmann checked, then faced a bet worth 110,000 by Tulin. Jachtmann called after some consideration and Tulin turned over for two pair with the words "it's a value bet, a strong value bet." Jachtmann mucked the and dropped to just over half a million in chips.
The players in the €10,000+€300 High Roller 8-Max are going on break. There are currently 29 remaining with 12 players in the money. The current chip leader is High Roller regular Steve O'Dwyer who sits on over one million chips.
There is a livestream which can be accessed by clicking on the tab above. O'Dwyer currently sits on the feature table, and will be looking to push his big stack around once play gets back underway.
Players still in include Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Manig Loeser, Pierre Neuville, Leon Tsoukernik, Steve O'Dwyer, Martin Kabrhel, Govert Metaal, Philipp Zukernik, Vladimir Troyanovskiy, Jack Sinclair and Alexandru Papazian.
Sergey Rybachenko in the cutoff, Aleksei Erin in the small blind and Artem Bezarenkov from the big blind all invested 65,000 each to see a flop of . Erin checked, as did Bezarenkov, and the bet of 130,000 by Rybachenko was called only by Pisarenko.
After the turn and river, both players checked and Bezarenkov showed . Rybachenko double-checked his cards and mucked to drop below the starting stack.
Richard Dubini was spotted leaving his seat while Jonathan Hayward said "unlucky bud" while raking in the pot. According to Dubini, Hayward defended his big blind and check-raised the flop of . Dubini called before calling a bet on the and leaving himself with 200,000 behind.
Hayward bet 500,000 on the river and Dubini called with for the nut straight only to see Hayward turn over the for a flush.
Felix Schulze has been eliminated from the High Roller and registered for Day 1a of the Main Event soon after. Schulze was just spotted calling a raise in late position and the small blind called as well. There was no betting action at all oin a board of and the small blind showed .
The initial raiser laughed and flashed pocket sevens, while Schulze had both beat with to cause even more laughter.
and Jachtmann quickly moved all in, eliciting a snap-fold from Schulze.
flop both players checked before Jachtmann bet the 
turn for 25,000, Tulin called.
fell on the river and Jachtmann checked, then faced a bet worth 110,000 by Tulin. Jachtmann called after some consideration and Tulin turned over 
for two pair with the words "it's a value bet, a strong value bet." Jachtmann mucked the 
and dropped to just over half a million in chips.
. Erin checked, as did Bezarenkov, and the bet of 130,000 by Rybachenko was called only by Pisarenko.
turn and 
river, both players checked and Bezarenkov showed 
. Rybachenko double-checked his cards and mucked to drop below the starting stack.
and leaving himself with 200,000 behind.
river and Dubini called with 
for the nut straight only to see Hayward turn over the 
for a flush.
.
to cause even more laughter.
and Feshchenko check-called a bet of 20,000 from her opponent.
and river 
