Donald Duarte Sierra raised from under the gun to 95,000 and Tsugunari Toma called from the big blind. The flop fell and Toma checked. Duarte continued for 95,000 and Toma check-raised to 280,000.
Duarte let go and Toma announced a set, then flashed .
Albert Daher opened for 80,000 under the gun plus one and big blind Lachezar Plamenov Petkov called. Petkov check-called 50,000 on and both checked on the turn. The river saw Petkov lead for 235,000 and Daher called. Petkov showed for the backdoor flush and Daher mucked.
Rens Feenstra raised to 90,000 from under the gun and Tsugunari Toma called from one seat over. Both checked the flop and Feenstra bet the turn for 185,000, which Toma called.
Feenstra bet the river for 400,000 with just 300,000 behind and Toma announced all in. Feenstra gave it some thought and called to see Toma table , and was relieved as he had an equally strong hand in .
Fenstra three-bet shoved the next hand out of the big blind to scoop the pot uncontested.
Soon after suffering the huge blow to his stack, Benjamin Richardson was all in and at risk for his last 10 big blinds out of the small blind. Sebastian Sorensson on the button looked him up and Richardson was in need of help with the inferior hand.
Benjamin Richardson:
Sebastian Sorensson:
The flop took away one out from Richardson, and the turn changed nothing whatsoever. For good measure, Sorensson improved to a flush with the river and Richardson was eliminated in 23rd place for €45,000.
Brian Kaufman Esposito opened for 90,000 under the gun and got Yaron Zeev Malki (cutoff) and Heorhii Doroshev (big blind) to call.
Doroshev and Kaufman checked on and Malki bet 155,000. Doroshev folded, Kaufman called. Kaufman check-called another 155,000 on the turn and 280,000 on the river.
In a battle of the blinds, the flop showed and Aeragan Arunan bet 100,000. Yaron Zeev Malki raised it up to 325,000 and Arunan quickly moved all in, Zeev Malki took as much time to send his cards into the muck.
Heorhii Doroshev raised to 90,000 and Mykhailo Hladilin moved all in for what appeared to be more than 425,000. Doroshev quickly called and both Ukrainians tabled their cards.
Mykhailo Hladilin:
Heorhii Doroshev:
The board ran out and Hladilin had to settle for 24th place and a payday of €37,300. All remaining 23 players have locked up €45,000 by now.
Lachezar Plamenov Petkov (hijack) and Benjamin Richardson (button) got their chips in the middle before the flop with Petkov at risk for 1,610,000.
Benjamin Richardson:
Lachezar Plamenov Petkov:
The flop came , not doing much for either player. The on the turn gave Petkov all of the sudden some extra outs and the on the river was one of them. Double up for Petkov, Richardson short.