Koray Aldemir bet 1,900 into a pot of 5,500 on a board, and Noah Vaillancourt, who had checked in middle position, called him. Vaillancourt checked the river, and Aldemir bet again for 5,000. Vaillancourt responded with an all-in shove, and Aldemir dumped his holding after briefly thinking.
Sergio Aido opened for a raise and got one caller before the big blind shoved all in for just 6,575. Aido reraised to chase away the third player and get heads up.
Aido:
Big blind:
The flop was safe enough for Aido, but a opened up a possible flush. The completed it, and Aido sent over a double.
Uruguayan high roller Francisco Benitez opened the action from middle position with a raise to 1,000. Adi Alkalay, like Benitez in middle position, three-bet to 3,200 and just Benitez called.
Benitez check-called a bet of 2,800 on and the hit the turn. That card would proof to a big one, as the money was soon going in. Benitez check-raised Alkalay's 6,300 bet to 13,600 and called the shove for 34,850 total.
Adi Alkalay:
Francisco Benitez:
The river paired the board, giving Alkalay the winning full house. Benitez parted ways with a large portion of his stack.
Among those to join the list of today's casualties were Joao Simao, Scott Margereson, Vladimir Troyanovskiy and Claas Segebrecht. Freddy Deeb had been nursing a short stack for quite some time and ran out of chips as well.
On a flop, Giovanni Lena committed his stack of 18,000 to the pot and Sam Grafton looked him up.
Giovanni Lena:
Sam Grafton:
Grafton had plenty of outs to knock out Lena, but the and river bricked for the Brit. Lena quickly ran over to a neighboring table and loudly celebrated the double-up.
With a completed board of , Schemion shoved his last 16,000 in the middle, around a pot-sized bet. Serhal Erdat played slightly less than that and ended up calling the shove.
The German showed for a straight, Erdat mucked and headed for the rail. Schemion is up to 48,000.
On the three-way flop of , Maxim Panyak bet 2,150 from early position and Ivan Banic called whereas the third player in the hand folded. The turn saw Panyak check and call a bet worth 5,700 before checking again the river. Banic now made it 12,800 to go and that forced a fold from Panyak.
While the duo remains with the biggest stacks at the table, Ema Zajmovic is not far behind and they also face the likes of Andre Akkari and [Removed:17] as well.
Seated under the gun, Elvin Muratovic opened for 2,300. Two to his left it was Mark Teltscher three-betting to 6,200. Action folded back around to Muratovic and he called.
Muratovic checked on and Teltscher bet 5,000. Muratovic called.
As the hit the turn, Muratovic checked again. Teltscher bet 13,000 with a little under 11,000 behind. Muratovic moved all in and Teltscher, somewhat reluctantly but still without hesitation, called.
Elvin Muratovic:
Mark Teltscher:
Teltscher was in a world of pain with his two pair and only had a couple of outs left to stay alive. The EPT champion and EPT runner-up already got up and put on his jacket, but could sit down again as the completed the board.
"Nice call" Muratovic said with a somewhat sarcastic voice as he was counting out chips to hand over to Teltscher. The latter replied that he had to call since he had so few chips left.