Evangelos Charalambou was already awaiting his fate while Stefan Fabian and Miad Shakiba were still active. Fabian bet the turn and Shakiba eventually folded.
Evangelos Charalambou:
Stefan Fabian:
The river was meaningless as Charalambou was already drawing dead.
Joseph Mouwad lost a flip with against the of Bora Kurtulu. The board ran out and Mouwad departed in 58th place.
Gabriel Akiki was then left very short when his in the big blind flopped top and bottom pair on . Omid Mojaverian had that beat with the and remained ahead on the turn and river. Akiki had a chip and a chair left over and doubled the next hand.
On the river of a board , Sergio Fernandez Bernal bet 340,000 from under the gun. Jim Sue Pan moved all in from the small blind with the superior stack and forced an expensive fold.
Moments later, Alexander Lakhov doubled when he found the perfect timing to get it in with . Gregoire Auzoux had to fork over 595,000 on a board of and said "I am not going to fold ace king for 20 blinds" when it was all done, which gives away his cards that had already been mucked.
Georgio Azar was eliminated and fellow Lebanese player Joseph Mouwad was then at risk for very few chips with the . He was called by a table neighbour with the and spiked the queen on the river of a board.
On the three-way river of , Nikola Minkov bet 375,000 and Mikhail Ruslanov called all-in for 285,000, while Fadi Alakzam folded. Minkov revealed the for the top pair and Ruslanov was trying to muck. His was exposed and he headed to the rail.
At the same moment, Piotr Sowinski departed from one table over as well and the board was rushed away. Artur Martirosian claimed the stack of the Pole and provided the details as follows. Martirosian three-bet to 240,000 out of the big blind for Sowinski to call in the cutoff.
A triple barrel followed on the board for 100,000, 150,000 and the shove. Sowinski called with what appeared to have been but Martirosian had nailed a full house with .
Aleksandr Gofman got his short stack in with the and was dominated by Kasparas Klezys with the . The board ran out and that spelled the end for Gofman. As a table broke, Engin Sezerer and Elie Saade departed in quick succession to reduce the field to the final 61 hopefuls.
Garik Tamasian eventually lost the battle with his short stack and bowed out in 65th place.
Soon after a small pot emerged between Erdem Akmert and Bora Kurtulus. The latter check-called the river for 100,000 and Akmert won the pot with out of the big blind.
Johan Guilbert raised it up to get called by Karolis Ciudaras and the Frenchman joked "let's create a four million pot". Cuidaras checked the flop and then check-called the turn for 50,000. On the river, Ciudaras check-called for another 235,000 and Guilbert briefly flashed his cards, then mucked.
Ciudaras won the pot with for two pair and pulled ahead of Guilbert.