Fabio Sperling opened to 4,300 and was called by one player before Jack Salter three-bet to 13,900. The action went back to the EPT 11 Prague finalist and Sperling shoved to enforce two quick folds. In table chat, he then said to have had .
Just before the previous break, Pascal Hartman took a big hit to his stack after his pocket queens ran into the pocket kings of Fedor Holz. The latter is now putting the new chips to use and bet the flop for 16,000. Ben Dobson check-called in the blinds and the river was checked by both players.
In the last hand before the break, Russia's Victor Podofedenko moved all in for his last 16,000 from the cutoff and Bas de Laat called from the button. Both blinds folded and the cards were turned up.
De Laat:
Podofedenko:
Podofedenko got it in good, and he held strong through the flop. Unfortunately for him, the dealer burned and turned the to give De Laat a pair of kings. The river was not the ten Podofedenko needed, and he made his way to the exit.
We just caught the tail end of some preflop action, and three players saw a flop for 3,400 each. The flop came down and the action was checked to Felipe Leite who bet 4,900 from the button. Stanislav Andranovich was seated in the big blind and he check-raised to around 13,000. The third player folded and Leite put his opponent all in.
Andranovich called and the showdown went as following.
Andranovich:
Leite:
The board ran out , and Andranovich was knocked out.
Koray Aldemir opened to 3,600 from the cutoff and the player on the button made it 7,600 to go. Pascal Hartmann and Ben Dobson in the blinds both folded and sop did Aldemir after some consideration.
One table over, Ludovit Fischer limped from the small blind and Juan Antonio Riera Roig checked his option. On the flop, Fischer check-called a bet og 2,000 and did so again for turn for 4,500. The river completed the board and Fischer checked, the Spaniard checked behind. Fischer turned over and the nut flush won the pot.
Upon asking about his stack size, Riera Roig laughed and said that friends had also texted him about the huge stack according to a previous update. However, it appears to be a mistake in the media numbers as the Spaniard had peeked at 100,000 chips and is just below that mark now.
On a board of we saw Sam Trickett bet out 22,000 from the big blind. His opponent, Michail Karapanos from Greece in early position, made the call after some thinking.
The fell on the river and Trickett grabbed a big tower of 5,000 chips, added an evenly big tower of 1,000 chips, and slid them forward. The bet easily covered Karapanos and the Greek thought for some time before calling.
Trickett showed for flopped trips. Karapanos mucked, but his was flipped open by the dealer as stated in the TDA rules.
Andrea Benelli was all in for around 20,000 in chips with and already took his belongings when his opponent turned over his . However, the board ran out and Benelli chopped the pot.