It hasn't been the day of Fahredin Mustafov, to say the least. After losing back-to-back hands to Sean Winter and a failed bluff against Max Silver, Mustafov was down to 10,000 in chips. Those are now gone as well, and he quickly headed out of the tournament area.
Ivan Luca and John Juanda are new entries while Roman Emelyanov has become the first player to fire the second and final entry in the tournament, boosting the field to 67 entries.
Vladimir Troyanovskiy raised to 525 from the cutoff, and Dietrich Fast three-bet to 2,000 like he had done previously already. Troyanovskiy called and the flop of went check, check. On the turn, Troyanovskiy bet 2,250 and was called before making it another 5,000 to go on the river.
Fast called and Troyanovskiy rolled over for kings and jacks. Fast had that beat with for a flush and raked in the pot. Half a minute passed and Troyanovskiy started some table talk with his neighbor, visibly unhappy with how the last hand played out.
Both Ole Schemion and Nicola Grieco started well and are above starting stack. The duo just tangled in a bigger pot with the turn showing and Grieco checked from under the gun. Schemion bet 3,800 and Grieco check-raised to 7,225 before being reminded that a min-raise had to be at least 7,600.
Grieco did exactly that and Schemion called before the river brought no betting action. Grieco rolled over for a flush and that won the pot.
Both Vanessa Selbst and Igor Kurganov joined late in level two, while Anthony Zinno, Sylvain Loosli and Marius Gierse also just took their seat. Gierse was eliminated on Day 4 of the Main Event not long ago and Loosli finished third in yesterday's €10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller.
Steffen Sontheimer was spotted walking out of the tournament area and passing by the table of Dietrich Fast and Oliver Weis, where he explained to have just busted with pocket aces. "I had to check-fold the river early on, this time I check-called and it was no good," Sontheimer added.
His previous table confirmed what happened, and it was Jack Salter that got the chips. On a board with a flush draw on the flop, Sontheimer three-bet preflop from 500 to 2,500 in the small blind before check-calling all three streets with aces. Salter showed for a rivered full house and that was it for now for Sontheimer.
Max Silver headed into the break and his stack was massive to say the least. The Brit and Nick Petrangelo confirmed what happened. Silver raised to 600 and picked up two callers including John Juanda on the button and Eric Sfez in the big blind called. On the flop, only Sfez called the bet of 1,200 by Silver before the fell on the turn.
Sfez bet 1,700 and Silver raised to 5,500, Sfez then raised to 14,000 and Silver called. After the river, Sfez check-called a bet of 25,000 and mucked while Silver showed pocket aces to drag in another big pot.
Table short stack is Oleh Korotkikh with fewer than one third of the starting stack.
A massive confrontation between Josip Simunic and Orpen Kisacikoglu has left the latter empty-handed. The pot was already five-bet preflop and contained around 40,000, with Kisacikoglu putting in the last raise.
On the flop, Simunic checked, Kisacikoglu bet 10,000, Simunic check-raised all in and Kisacikoglu reluctantly called it off for 29,250 total.
Josip Simunic:
Orpen Kisacikoglu:
Kisacikoglu was drawing very slim and was dead after the landed on the turn. Simunic had the Turkish high roller slightly covered, who no doubt will be back shortly to fire his second bullet.