Luciana Manolea faced a raise to 2,600 by Boris Kolev in the under-the-gun position and three-bet to 7,400 on the button. Kolev clicked it back to 18,600 and Manolea called.
After the flop, Kolev checked and folded to a bet of 17,000 by Manolea.
Gavin O'Rourke started the day with just nine big blinds but that has since changed to a ton more, and a failed bluff attempt by Vojtech Ruzicka dded even more to the stack of the Irishman.
It was Ruzicka that raised to 2,800 from under the gun and O'Rourke called, as did Petr Targa in the big blind. The flop fell and Targa checked, Ruzicka bet 4,100 and O'Rourke was the only caller. After the turn, Ruzicka bet 9,800 and had around 34,000 behind, O'Rourke called once more.
The fell on the river and Ruzicka carefully counted his remaining stack before moving all in. O'Rourke didn't snap call but did so to leave Ruzicka with the head shaking as he tabled for ace-king high. O'Rourke had that beat with for top set and raked in a big pot.
Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy already won a trophy at a PokerStars branded event and it wasn't even long ago when the Russian triumphed on home soil and took down the PokerStars Festival Sochi Main Event. He is also off to a good start here in Prague and knocked out Benjamin Lamprecht.
It was a classic race for Lamprecht, who got his 50,000 in with the and Merzvinskiy put him at risk with . The board came and that was it for Lamprecht.
"He simply always had it," WSOP bracelet winner Sebastian Langrock said and referred to Hari Bercovici in the one seat. Bercovici started the day below average and quadrupled up his stack in the first two levels. Just now he lost a pot, though, and it was Boris Kuzmanovic that got back on track as a result.
On the turn, Kuzmanovic checked in late position and called a bet of 15,800 by Bercovici in the cutoff. Both checked the river and Kuzmanovic's won the pot.
Omid Mojaverian has even more than Bercovici and was spotted with a raise to 2,500. Ismael Bojang three-bet to 8,000 and [Removed:533] four-bet all in for 43,000. Mojaverian called and that forced out Bojang.
[Removed:533]:
Omid Mojaverian:
There was no sweat on the board and they chopped it up.
WIth already around 60,000 in the pot, David Urban (CO) and Thomas Muehloecker (BTN) arrived on the river on a board. Urban checked and Muehloecker moved all in, putting Urban to the test for his final 48,000.
Urban, one of Slovakia's top players, agonized for nearly five minutes before the clock got called. During his final minute, Urban eventually elected to fold to ship the pot to Muehloecker.
According to the tournament screens, there are 306 players out of a 855-entry strong field remaining and they have been sent into the first 20-minute break of the day.
On a flop of , Ismael Bojang check-raised from 3,000 to 7,500 and called the reraise to 13,000 by Jussi Nevanlinna to see the on the turn. Bojang checked and Nevanlinna's bet of 7,000 forced a quick fold. "Do you want to guess what I had?" the FInn offered and let Bojang pick one card, it was the .
flop, Kolev checked and folded to a bet of 17,000 by Manolea.
and Targa checked, Ruzicka bet 4,100 and O'Rourke was the only caller. After the 
fell on the river and Ruzicka carefully counted his remaining stack before moving all in. O'Rourke didn't snap call but did so to leave Ruzicka with the head shaking as he tabled 
for ace-king high. O'Rourke had that beat with 
for top set and raked in a big pot.
and Merzvinskiy put him at risk with 
river and Kuzmanovic's 
and they chopped it up.
, Ismael Bojang check-raised from 3,000 to 7,500 and called the reraise to 13,000 by Jussi Nevanlinna to see the 
on the turn. Bojang checked and Nevanlinna's bet of 7,000 forced a quick fold. "Do you want to guess what I had?" the FInn offered and let Bojang pick one card, it was the 
.
