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.
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.
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 .
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.
When PokerStars Team Online player Jaime Staples late registered into Day 1C of the main event, he pulled up a seat at one of the many tables here at the King's Casino. A normal seat among the field of 475 runners in Rozvadov.
As he sat and gave a cheerful hello to the table, he barely noticed the man directly to his left, who turned out to be none other than 2016 EPT Barcelona Main Event winner, Sebastian Malec.
Anatolii Zyrin limped in from the small blind and Martin Kabrhel raised to 1,475 with the Russian coming along. On the flop, Zyrin check-min-raised from 1,475 to 2,950 and Kabrhel called before Zyrin then shoved the turn.
Brief table talk emerged and Kabrhel tried to guess the hand of Zyrin, then claimed he had king-seven. Ultimately, Kabrhel called the all in for 11,075 and tabled . Zyrin turned over his cards, it was the . "Oh, you have the king seven."
The river completed the board and Kabrhel added "You limp king seven? Nice hand." while paying off his opponent.