Jargo "bungakat" Alavali opened the action with a button raise to 11,000 and Conor "1_conor_b_1" Beresford got his last 125,137 in from the big blind, which Alavali quickly called.
Lucas "YRWTHMELTHR" Greenwood raised and called the shove of Pavel "silentm0de" Plesuv for a shade over 12 blinds in the small blind.
Pavel "silentm0de" Plesuv:
Lucas "YRWTHMELTHR" Greenwood:
Plesuv flopped top pair and a flush draw but the set of Greenwood held on the board.
Next, it was Parker "tonkaaaa" Talbot that saw his stack left with crumbs as he got it in with on the button against the of Jonathan "Proudflop" Proudfoot in the small blind. The board ran out and Proudfoot rivered two pair. One hand later, Talbot had an ace but Konstantin "krakukra" Maslak rivered a straight with the .
Dominik "Bounatirou" Nitsche was left short and limped the cutoff. "gcardenas10" in the small blind raised to 26,875 and Nitsche called to then call a shove on the flop.
Dominik "Bounatirou" Nitsche:
"gcardenas10":
The flush draw was no good and the turn and river sealed the fate of Nitsche.
Canada's "Boootsy" got it in with and had a flip against the of Michael "merla888" Gathy. The board ran out and Gathy flopped the full house to lock it up.
"Remi Lebo_10" departed when they jammed the cutoff with and Jonathan "Proudflop" Proudfoot had the in the small blind. The board was quite conclusive with the ace on the flop.
James "Cmon_Gasquet" Hopkins and "FouEnculePL" were gone in a matter of moments, too, and Artem "veeea" Vezhenkov then got it in preflop and was called by "gcardenas10" in the big blind.
Artem "veeea" Vezhenkov:
"gcardenas10":
On a board of , the top pair of Vezhenkov was doomed on the turn already.
Right before the end of the late registration, nearly one dozen players jumped in and that boosted the field to 97 entries, missing the guarantee by just three entries.
Two of the late entries and Shaun "shaundeeb" Deeb were eliminated before the next scheduled five-minute break kicked off with 36 players remaining.
Steve "Mr. Tim Caum" O'Dwyer had first flopped a flush with to double through Matt "OLD TIME GIN" Stone and then busted Stone and Deeb in a three-way all-in when flopped a flush draw and turned top pair.
Right after returning from the break, "Fukuruku" three-bet jammed out of the big blind and was called by initial raiser Artur "mararthur1" Martirosian.
"Fukuruku":
Artur "mararthur1" Martirosian:
The 5Kd6h4d] flop gave Martirosian a flush draw which he immediately hit on the turn to leave his opponent drawing dead, making the river a formality.
In a battle of late entries, Christopher "lissi stinkt" Frank was all in from the big blind and "DingeBrinker" looked him up from the button.
Christopher "lissi stinkt" Frank:
"DingeBrinker":
Frank flopped a gutshot on but whiffed the turn and river.
Next to fall was Lucas "YRWTHMELTHR" Greenwood, who was sent to the rail by "MaxHendrix".
"MaxHendrix" raised to 13,200 on the button and Filipe "Zagazaur" Oliveira called in the small blind. Greenwood ripped it in for 220,428 in the big blind and "MaxHendrix" isolated successfully.
Lucas "YRWTHMELTHR" Greenwood:
"MaxHendrix":
The board ran out for "MaxHendrix" to hold and Oliveira showed the mucked .