Daniel Chitakhov shoved his last 62,000 from the hijack in and Petr Jelinek made the call from the button. Both blinds folded and Chitakhov was hit by the bad news pretty soon. Chitakhov showed and was up against .
The on the flop provided some split pot possibilities, and the on the turn wasn't an ugly card either, but the on the river was a blank and Chitakhov hit the rail.
In the space of two hands Norbert Berent has been eliminated from the tournament.
We arrived at the table to find the board spread out and Berent checking his option from the blinds. Brian Altman was in the cut off an slid out a bet of 115,000 which was called shortly after.
Altman tabled his for a pair of nines which was enough to take down the pot as Berent tossed his cards into the muck.
In the following hand, the action folded back around to Berent in the small blind. He raised before Andrey Zaichencko came over the top from the big blind. Several raises later and Berent was all in for his remaining 140,000 and at risk holding against Zaichenko’s .
The dealer spread out the board which helped Berent in no way as he was sent to the rail.
Stephen Graner defended his big blind against a 12,000-raise of Milan Sasek and then check-raised the flop from 13,000 to 36,000. Sasek reraised to 80,000 and Graner called. Both players checked the turn and Graner then put his opponent all in for 203,000 on the river.
Sasek called with for the flopped flush and Graner tried to muck his , but the dealer turned it over due to the all in situation, where all cards must be shown.
A short-stacked Georgi Abuladze moved all in for 85,000 with and fellow short stack [Removed:413] called out of the big blind with for the better hand preflop and the slightly superior stack. The board ran out and Abuladze was sent to the rail.
Akin Tuna opened for 14,000 and picked up one caller in Sam Grafton on the button.
The flop was and Grafton check-called a 27,000 Tuna bet. The was the turn card and Tuna bet again to the tune of 45,000. When the completed the board Tuna shipped it for 160,000. Grafton got a count but ultimately folded saying, “Nice hand buddy.”
Roman Pavliuk raised to 12,000 from the hijack before Gaelle Baumann moved all in for her remaining 33,000 from the button. The blinds folded their hands a Paliuk made the call shortly after.
Pavliuk:
Baumann:
Baumann was in trouble against the pair but would find no help as the board ran out to see her eliminated from the tournament.
Vyacheslav Stoyanov had moved all in a few times without getting any calls when Albert Daher opened for 12,000 from the button and Stoyanov moved all in again from the big blind for around 100,000.
Daher looked like he was going through the permutations in his head for a couple of minutes and in the end decided to look him up with . Stoyanov tabled .
A safe run out of for Daher saw Stoyanov eliminated.
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and was up against 
.
on the flop provided some split pot possibilities, and the 
on the turn wasn't an ugly card either, but the 
on the river was a blank and Chitakhov hit the rail.
and Berent checking his option from the blinds. Brian Altman was in the cut off an slid out a bet of 115,000 which was called shortly after.
for a pair of nines which was enough to take down the pot as Berent tossed his cards into the muck.
against Zaichenko’s 
board which helped Berent in no way as he was sent to the rail.
flop from 13,000 to 36,000. Sasek reraised to 80,000 and Graner called. Both players checked the 
turn and Graner then put his opponent all in for 203,000 on the 
river.
for the flopped flush and Graner tried to muck his 
, but the dealer turned it over due to the all in situation, where all cards must be shown.
and Barausova showed 
for the better hand preflop and the slightly superior stack. The board ran out 
getting looked up by small blind Piotr Pietrzak with 
and Grafton check-called a 27,000 Tuna bet. The 
was the turn card and Tuna bet again to the tune of 45,000. When the 
for Daher saw Stoyanov eliminated.
