Ante Varnica got his last 100,000 or so in preflop with but early opener Cathal Shine had him beat with . The board ran out devoid of help for Varnica and he took his leave.
Thomas Mercier opened the button for 6,200 and small blind Jean-Jacques Zeitoun called. Big blind Timothy Adams squeezed all in for 57,600 and Mercier tanked long before releasing his cards into the muck.
Now it was Zeitoun with the decision and he tanked for a bit before deciding to call.
Jean-Jacques Zeitoun:
Timothy Adams:
The flop came and Adams asked for a seven. Instead, the hit and Adams now asked for a king. He got neither an no ace would appear either. The hit and Adams started to gather his things before exiting.
Paul Michaelis is close to 500,000 in chips and the WSOP bracelet winner from Germany recalled the hand that peopelled his stack a lot.
According to Michaelis, he faced a raise to 5,000 by Igor Dubinskyy and the player on the button called. Michaelis made it 23,000 to go and just Dubinskyy called. On a flop he bet 15,000 into 50,000 and Dubinskyy called before doing so again for 50,000 on a turn.
The river paired the board and Michaelis moved all in for effectively 90,000, as that's what Dubinskyy had left. The Ukrainian called with ace-king and Michaelis had pocket tens for a turned set and rivered full house.
Omid Mojaverian still seems the man to beat in the last level of the night, though, while Boris Kolev also nears half a million in chips.
Colin Robinson defended his big blind against a raise by Mattia Baccassino and check-called a bet of 8,300 on the flop. Both ended up checking through the turn and the river and Robinson sighed before turning over the winning . Right after he won another pot when his sole opponent called a bet of 9,500 on the river.
Robinson turned over for top pair and his opponent said "you three-outered me."
The fireworks came soon after when Jakutis Povilas lost 60% of his stack to Yury Kanunnikov after being unable to beat the of the Russian on a board of .
From the hijack, Viktor Lavi shoved all in for 36,200. Markus Durnegger announced a call on the button. The small blind tank-folded and the big blind mucked right away.
Durnegger:
Lavi:
The board ran out , giving Durnegger a winning boat.
Jasper Meijer van Putten's bust out slip was handed to PokerNews, and we contacted him to find out what had happened to the defending champion.
Van Putten told us that Tsugunari Toma opened the cutoff with a raise and Boris Kolev, chip leader of the table with 400,000 at the time, called. Meijer van Putten defended his big blind with offsuit.
The flop came and Meijer van Putten checked. Toma bet the size of half the pot and his neighbor the chip leader raised small. Meijer van Putten shoved for 40,800, 17 big blinds. Toma folded but Kolev wasn't intending on doing the same and called with for middle set.
Meijer van Putten hit a on the turn to remain hopeful but a on the river didn't help him and the Dutchman exited the tournament area.
With the completed board showing , Diego Zeiter bet 15,500 out of the small blind. Two players were still to act including Ondrej Pulec and the Czech called. Yorane Kerignard counted his stack carefully and eventually folded.
Zeiter rolled over the for trips nines and that was good enough to win the pot.
Tsugunari Toma had been cruising for most of the day with a big stack but suddenly sits at just 80,000. A quick look at his table reveals one massive stack in Boris Kolev and the latter confirmed that he scored a big double.
According to Kolev, he faced a raise from under the gun and several callers including Toma in the cutoff. Kolev squeezed from the button and action folded back to Toma, who shoved with . Kolev called with and flopped two aces to lock up the hand.