The roller coaster ride of Mihaita Croitoru is heading into yet another downhill period as the Romanian just paid off table neighbor Alessio Casiraghi to drop back below the starting stack. On the heads-up turn of 
, Croitoru check-called a bet of 5,000 and did so again for 8,300 on the 
river.
Casiraghi turned over the 
for two pair and that was enough to claim the pot.
Spanish superstar Adrian Mateos, who got third in the €50K Super High Roller today, just entered the event, taking a seat near the table recently vacated by both Quan Zhou and Ka Kwan Lau.
At other tables, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier is short, and Fabrice Soulier doubled through Goran Mandic. We didn't see when the money went in, but Mandic bricked with 
against the 
of Soulier, with the latter flopping trip queens.
Another big name on the poker circuit entered soon after Mateos in Ole Schemion.
Hady El Asmar min-raised to 1,000 first to act and Ali Reza Fatehi three-bet to 2,800, which was called by John Mooney in the big blind and El Asmar. The flop fell 
and Mooney checked, El Asmar moved all in for 7,275 and Fatehi was the only caller.
Hady El Asmar: 
Ali Reza Fatehi: 
Neither the 
on the turn nor the 
on the river changed the outcome of the hand anymore and El Asmar doubled, however he remains below the starting stack. Fatehi lost a small portion of his big stack, but is still the run-away chip leader at the table.
[Removed:172] opened the action with an under the gun raise to 1,200. He picked up no fewer than 3 callers: Ali Reza Fatehi (hijack), Hady El Asmar (small blind), and Eliyahu Saado (big blind).
The blinds and initial raiser checked to Fatehi on 
and he bet 3,300. El Asmar and Saado called, Kramer folded.
All 3 of them checked the 
on the turn and the 
completed the board. Small blind El Asmar tossed in a single 5,000-chip and Saado was quick to call. Fatehi over called and El Asmar showed 
for the turned straight. Saado mucked, Fatehi tabled 
for the backdoor flush and raked in the pot.
Photos by Tomas Stacha.
Steve O'Dwyer raised to 1,000 and picked up two callers in Ryan Riess from one seat over on the button and Bertrand Grospellier in the big blind. The flop of 
was checked to Riess, and his bet of 1,500 forced a fold from Grospellier, while O'Dwyer called.
After no betting action on the turn, O'Dwyer made it 3,500 to go on the 
river and Riess reluctantly called after some consideration. O'Dwyer tabled 
for a busted straight draw, which Riess had beat with 
for queens and sevens.
Shiguang Zeng got his last 10,500 in with the 
only to see Andrei Streltsou look him up with the dominating 
. It was all over after the turn of a board 
and Zeng headed to the rail before the dinner break.
Michal Mrakes still appears to be at the top of the counts, while several other players are slowly catching up.
We found Bertrand Grospellier pondering calling off his final 3,700 on a completed board of 
. His opponent in middle position had set him in and "ElkY" eventually decided to roll with his holding. What his cards were, we'll never know, as they hit the muck after 
was turned over.
Jonas Lauck made it 1,200 to go and big stack Akin Tuna in the cutoff as well as Vladas Burneikis in the big blind called. The flop came 
and Burneikis checked, Lauck bet 2,200 and was called only by Burneikis.
On the 
turn, Lauck faced a check-raise from 4,000 to 8,000 and called before Burneikis led the river for 8,000. Lauck now raised to 17,000 and Burneikis sighed before calling. Lauck was subsequently first to show as last aggressor and rolled over 
for the king-high flush. Burneikis mucked 
face up and was left with a mere 5,000 along with plenty of visible frustration.
Level six has come to an end with 111 players out of a field of 184 entries remaining and they have been sent into a 75-minute dinner break, in which the T-25 chips will be raced off. Action resumes at approximately 9.25 p.m. local time.
Among those that won't return for the remaining two levels of tonight are Ole Schemion, Marco Molon, [Removed:172], Yucel Eminoglu and Oleh Okhotskyi - they have all been eliminated towards the end of the level.
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