The eliminations of "LaxxedAF" and "MR1SHNARK" have reduced the field to the final 24 players. "MR1SHNARK" was ahead when the chips went in preflop with tens versus nines but Anton "storytellerA" Morgenstern spiked a nine on the flop.
Joao "UnforgivenM7" Lains moved all in preflop for 3,998,993, called first by small blind “Brainfwaves” and then – all in for less – by big blind Paul "Pistolero99" Lozano.
Lains:
“Brainfwaves”:
Lozano:
The shortest stack spiked their eight on the flop, with the jacks holding against the tens (despite a straight draw appearing on the turn) over a run-out.
Jianpengfei "jcqs" Jian departed in a big pot and an even bigger one was played out right before the break between Anton "storytellerA" Morgenstern and Mario "xxmmarioxx" Mosboeck.
It all kicked off when Morgenstern opened to 600,000 in middle position an was called by Mosboeck in the big blind.
Mosboeck check-raised the flop from 515,000 to 1,695,000 after using a portion of his time bank and Morgenstern stuck around. Mosboeck bet the turn for 2.155 million and then jammed the river for more than 4.7 million, both times using another portion of his time bank.
The river jam then sent Morgenstern into the think tank and he eventually called with the only to see Mosboeck score a big double with .