Level: 5
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 400
Level: 5
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 400
Pasi Sormunen has just been eliminated by Walid Bou Habib. We're unsure as when the chips went in, but are sure Sormunen's was no match to Bou Habib's on the board of .
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Walid Bou Habib |
180,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
Pasi Sormunen | Busted |
In a battle of the blinds, Viacheslav Goryachev raised from the small blind and Ye Zhang in the big blind three-bet to 16,000. Goryachev then shoved for around 75,000 and was snap-called.
Goryachev:
Zhang:
The board ran out and the pair of kings held for the Chinese.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Ye Zhang
|
220,000
120,000
|
120,000 |
Viacheslav Goryachev | Busted |
While Salman Behbehani and PokerStars Team Pro Liv Boeree just took their seat, another half a dozen players has been eliminated in the first five levels of the day.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Salman Behbehani |
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
Scott Margareson
|
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
Liv Boeree |
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
||
Matthew Kouri
|
Busted | |
Ghassan Yared | Busted | |
Julian Thomas | Busted | |
Sam Chartier | Busted | |
Ramin Hajiyev | Busted | |
Timothy Adams | Busted |
Georgios Zisimopoulos has become an early big stack with the elimination of Sergey Lebedev. On the three-way flop of , Zisimopoulos checked in the small blind and Shaun Deeb bet 13,300 from late position. In the cutoff, Lebedev called and Zisimopoulos then check-raised to 35,000.
While Deeb folded, Lebedev moved all in and was snap-called.
Lebedev:
Zisimopoulous:
The Russian sighed and already left his chair, while the turn and river completed the board. "I can't believe the action went like this," Deeb added and Zisimopoulos was busy stacking his tower of chips.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Georgios Zisimopoulos |
290,000
130,000
|
130,000 |
Shaun Deeb |
90,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
Sergey Lebedev | Busted |
The pocket sixes of [Removed:17] were already in the muck and he paid off the shove of Michael Telker for 65,500. Telker was at risk preflop with the and held up thanks to a board of .
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Michael Telker |
135,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
[Removed:17] | 40,000 |
Short stack Alexandru Papazian was all in and at risk for only 6,600 and behind him Christoph Vogelsang in the big blind and Tom-Aksel Bedell from under the gun got their stacks in as well with both at almost even stacks.
Papazian:
Vogelsang:
Bedell:
The board ran out and Papazian tripled up, while Vogelsang doubled through Bedell for 56,200.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Christoph Vogelsang |
115,000
115,000
|
115,000 |
Alexandru Papazian |
30,000
-70,000
|
-70,000 |
Tom-Aksel Bedell |
2,500
2,500
|
2,500 |
Nicolas Chouity made it 6,000 to go from early position and Jeffrey Hakim made the call from the cutoff.
Small blind Sam Greenwood squeezed to 22,000 from the small blind and big blind short-stack Yang Wang folded. Chouity made the call and now Hakim shoved all in for 76,000. Greenwood shoved over the top and Chouity folded with his 100,000 or so stack.
Greenwood showed while Hakim had . The board ran out and Greenwood and Hakim chopped the pot.
The first break of the tournament has just started. Players return to the tables in 20 minutes. The 100-chip will be missing by that time, they are raced off this break.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Charlie Carrel |
300,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Dmitry Yurasov |
275,000
175,000
|
175,000 |
Ye Zhang
|
250,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Christian Jeppsson |
210,000
110,000
|
110,000 |
Rajkumar Ramakrishnan |
205,000
110,000
|
110,000 |
Anton Astapau |
195,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
Nariman Yaghmai |
180,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
Mark Teltscher |
165,000
65,000
|
65,000 |
|
||
Christian Christner |
160,000
55,000
|
55,000 |
Max Silver |
160,000
60,000
|
60,000 |
Andrey Shatilov |
115,000
-90,000
|
-90,000 |
Fedor Holz |
70,000
-120,000
|
-120,000 |
Ali Reza Fatehi |
40,000
-34,000
|
-34,000 |