Niall Farrell doubled for just over three big blinds with versus as his seven-high would be good enough on the board.
[Removed:244] doubled Fahredin Mustafov for 3.725 as the Bulgarian held up with versus , the board ran out .
Ivo Donev flopped the nut straight with ace-king to win a big pot off Artur Wasek and Gianluca Speranza took from Ludovic Geilich to slightly boost his stack.
Speranza raised to 700,000 and Geilich called from one seat over. On the flop, Speranza bet 800,000 and Geilich raised to 2.175 million, Speranza called. Both then checked the turn and river and Speranza tabled as winning hand.
Abdelhakim Zoufri raised to 675,000 from late position and Philipp Gruissem three-bet to 1,900,000 from the cutoff. The action folded back to Zoufri who asked how much Gruissem had behind. Gruissem provided Zoufri with an estimation of his total. Zoufri shoved and Gruissem snap-called.
Philipp Gruissem:
Abdelhakim Zoufri:
The board ran out - Gruissem hit an extra king on the river to double up.
Rifat Gegic lost with ace-queen against ace-king and ultimately lost the remainder of his short stack with against the of Robert Kokoska on a board of to join the rail.
Just prior to that, James Akenhead was ousted by Viktor Blom. The online legend raised to 650,000 and Stephen Shayler called from one seat over. Akenhead three-bet in the hijack for 2.8 million and Blom moved all in, Shayler folded and Akenhead called.
James Akenhead:
Viktor Blom:
The board ran out and Akenhead missed out on his over card and the flush draw.
Leo Nash three-bet an open raise of Vojtecdh Ruzicka to 2.2 million preflop and Ruzicka called. On the flop, Nash continued for 1.8 milliom and was called before the turn and river were checked through. Nash tabled for two pair and that won ther pot.
Right after, Joseph Parsons departed from one table over.
Short stack Milan Šimko was all in and at risk with and Pascal Hartmann's dealt the final blow to the Czech.
Niall Farrell had Gerald Karlic all in and at risk with and the Austrian spiked a lucky double with thanks to a board of . Karlic had been at risk for 3.375 million and that left Farrell with around 2 million in chips.
The 91 remaining players have returned for Day 3 and are seated at their tables ready to battle their way to the final day! The tournament director has instructed the dealers to shuffle up and deal!