Only 15 minutes remain for those who wish to re-enter the turbo heat after having been eliminated on one of the three starting days. The first break has just kicked in and the players are heading to the buffet with 190 remaining out of a 207-entry strong field.
Mohamed Mamouni and Mohammed El Mazouni were both just involved in two all in showdowns and both of them won, but their chip counts remain vastly apart.
Mamouni was bluffing on a three-way flop of and both the cutoff and the small blind called. On the turn, Mamouni fired again and picked up two callers before the fell on the river. Mamouni shoved and the cutoff called with for a back door straight, only to see the Frenchman turn over for the rivered flush.
And then, the roller coaster ride of El Mazouni received another chapter when he got it in preflop for the last 11,125 with the . Ali Sameeian had and saw the board run out .
Deepak Khubchandani has been eliminated after just getting his short stack in for around 12,650. He faced two other all ins, and Jaroslaw Kosmaty had Khubchandani as well as Roi Pereira at risk of elimination.
Deepak Khubchandani:
Jaroslaw Kosmaty:
Roi Pereira:
The board came and the tens held up for Pereira, who knocked out Khubchandani and doubled through Kosmaty for 24,000.
Martin Kabrhel is among the biggest stacks and his hippo stands on three stacks worth 25,000 each. Raoul Refos has also already doubled his stack while Hassan Sarris and Christian Stratmeyer were among the casualties in the first half of the turbo heat.
On the river, Scott Hanna made it 6,625 to go and Maxym Plotnikov moved all in for more than 20,000. Hanna gave it some brief consideration and the Russian flashed the first with "I have a king." The second card was the and Plotnikov had bluffed with a failed flush draw and gutshot in a three-bet pot.
Hanna turned over his for trips on the river and claimed the pot. "What are you doing to me? Why do you bluff?" he asked before raking in another big pot.
With around 10,000 in the middle and the board showing , Scott Hanna was all in for his last 18,450 and table chip leader Georges Yazbeck called. When the cards were tabled, Yazbeck found himself up drawing dead to win the pot, as Hanna spiked the perfect card.
Scott Hanna:
Georges Yazbeck:
The river was just a formality and Hanna doubled up. The American, now living here in the Czech Republic for quite some time already, soon after scooped another big pot. Hanna called a bet worth 6,500 on the river and showed for top pair, the opponent mucked.