Arnaud Mattern called Martin Papiernik's shove to put the Slovakian at risk. Mattern was ahead with to Papiernik's . The door card was the , but the flop was spread to reveal a few outs for Papiernik. The turn and river were blanks, however, and Mattern picked up the knock out. He's on 200,000 now.
As tournament staff moved a player in to fill Papiernik's spot, Mattern kindly requested a weak player. "Maybe an Italian? Or a French player? Definitely a French player," joked the French pro.
Pierre Neuville has raising chips again after his double up earlier. He opened to 10,700, and the big blind, Peter Cerven, reraised to 24,000. Neuville moved all in for a total of 83,000, and after a minute, Cerven called. Neuville instantly flipped over his cards, one stacked on top of the other, so the table could see the . He waited a beat before moving the top card to reveal the under it. Cerven angrily threw down his when he saw Neuville's hand. The board ran out an uneventful , and Neuville doubled up.
Pokerstars qualifier Martin Papiernik has doubled up to a much more healthy 72,000 after he found at the same time that Lorenz Roder found and was willing to give him a spin.
The flop gave Roder a few outs but none managed to appear on the turn or river and the Slovakian survived once more.
Oleksandr Vaserfirer has doubled up through Volodymyr Pilyavsky with a nicely timed dose of binkage. Vaserfirer was behind with his to Pilyaysky's but a board of soon changed that.
Vaserfirer is up to 60,000 while Pilyaysky drops to around 170,000 which is still fairly healthy.
Team PokerStars Pro Vadim Markushevski has taken a bit of a hit - his failed to hit against the all-in Bassam Elnajjar's pocket fours, and Markushevski has been left with little more than 10 big blinds.
The shorter stacks are wasting no time getting their chips in, and one of the folks who will not be progressing any further in this tournament is Scott Montgomery, who finalled the WSOP the same year that Ivan Demidov did.
Montgomery found himself very short early on but managed to double up with pocket kings against Igor Ivashkiv's - Ivashkiv hit both an ace and a ten, but Montgomery rivered a king to stay in the game.
However, just a hand or two later and Montgomery got it in again with . This time he was well behind Artem Litvinov's pocket nines, and after failing to spike, Montgomery hit the rail.
Unfortunately for Raymi Sanchez Thorn, this day has dawned and already ended. The Swede was all-in with against Vesa-Petri Juutilainen's but the board came ending Thorn's participation in this tournament.
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to Papiernik's 
. The door card was the 
, but the flop was spread 
to reveal a few outs for Papiernik. The 
turn and 
river were blanks, however, and Mattern picked up the knock out. He's on 200,000 now.
under it. Cerven angrily threw down his 
, and Neuville doubled up.
and was willing to give him a spin.
flop gave Roder a few outs but none managed to appear on the 
to Pilyaysky's 
failed to hit against the all-in Bassam Elnajjar's pocket fours, and Markushevski has been left with little more than 10 big blinds.
. This time he was well behind Artem Litvinov's pocket nines, and after failing to spike, Montgomery hit the rail.
- that classic coinflip.
but the board came 
