Steve O'Dwyer raised to 23,000 and Olivier Busquet three-bet to 50,000 from one seat over. The EPT Grand Final champion of Season 10 moved all in for 232,000 and Busquet called.
Busquet:
O'Dwyer:
The flop brought an additional flush draw for O'Dwyer, though the on the turn changed nothing. The on the river was much to the liking of O'Dwyer as he doubled up with the nut flush.
Bryn Kenney raised to 22,000 from under the gun plus one. Ivan Soshnikov was in the hijack and bumped it up to 47,000 as the decision fell back on Kenney. He opted to move all in for around 150,000 in chips and was snap called.
Kenney:
Soshnikov:
Kenney was in big trouble against the monster pair held by Soshnikov and would find no help as the board ran out to see him eliminated from the tournament.
Vladimir Troyanovskiy raised to 22,000 preflop and found one caller in Andrew Chen in the big blind. On the flop, the Canadian check-called a bet of 20,000 and did so after the turn as well for 55,000. Chen checked for the third time on the river and Troyanovskiy bet 131,000.
Chen started staring at him and the Russian suddenly put the hoodie over his face, covering the left half and staring with the right eye towards the board to not give away any emotions. Chen kept looking at the board, back at Troyanovskiy and then mucked his cards.
Martin Kabrhel opened for 20,000 and faced a three-bet to 40,000 from Leonid Markin. Kabrhel wasn’t too sure but he called the min-raise and they went heads-up to the flop of .
Kabrhel checked and Markin continued the aggression with a bet of 55,000. Kabrhel picked up a stack of T25000 chips with his right hand, added a few T1000 chips, and then his left hand mucked his cards.
There are a few short stacks on Table 3 and they have been getting it in the middle on the last few hands.
First Jean-Noel Thorel opened and folded to a shove from Bryn Kenney. Kenney opened shoved the next hand and got no action. On the next hand Throel opened again and this time folded to a shove from Steve O'Dwyer.
Isaac Haxton raised to 20,000 from late position before Fedor Holz moved all in from the hijack for his remaining 133,000 in chips. Leonid Markin was next to act and made the call as the player on the button and blinds folded. Haxton also got out of the way before the two players tabled their cards.
Holz:
Markin:
Holz was behind and would find no help as the board ran out to see him hit the rail.
After a raise of Timothy Adams, Mustapha Kanit called on the button and Juha Helppi tossed in the extra chips out of the big blind as well. On the , Helppi check-folded and Kanit called the continuation bet of Adams for 35,000. The on the turn didn't slow down Adams, as he fired a second barrel worth 80,000.
Kanit didn't go anywhere and made the call before the action was checked to him on the river. The Italian bet 211,000 and that enforced a fold from Adams.
Brian Roberts raised to 26,000 from the cutoff and was called by Connor Drinan in the big blind. On the flop, Drinan check-called a continuation bet of 38,000 and then bet the turn for 70,000. Roberts didn't muck instantly but his cards eventually found their way to the dealer.
In a previous hand, Jean-Noel Thorel three-bet an open raise of Andrew Chen from 20,000 to 80,000 and scooped the pot without any further action. Now the Frenchman three-bet an open raise of Ivan Soshnikov from 20,000 to 42,000 and the Russian called. On the flop, Thorel made a continuation bet of 62,000 and that did the trick.