All in for 24,400 with , Joseph El Khoury was facing Rony Jazzar's . The board rolled out as El Khoury made trips to secure the double to about 54,000. Jazzar dropped to just 10,000.
In last year's tournament, El Khoury finished sixteenth while Jazzar made the final table and took sixth.
Dominik Nitsche raised to 3,500 from middle position. He was called by Foivos Pettas in the small blind and Andreas Krause called from the big blind. The flop came down and action checked to Nitsche. He fired 7,000 and Pettas called. Krause folded.
The turn brought the and Pettas fired 8,700. Nitsche put in a raise to 25,800 and Pettas called.
After the fell on the river, Pettas fired 50,000. Nitsche folded and dropped to 136,000 in chips. Pettas moved up to 205,000.
Rob Peltekci raised to 3,500 from the cutoff seat and Ori Miller reraised all in from the button for about 40,000. Foivos Pettas reshoved from the big blind and that knocked Peltkci out of the way, who folded the and claimed he would have called Miller's shove.
Miller held the and Pettas the . The board ran out and Miller was sent to the rail. Pettas now has about 150,000 chips.
The chip leader not too long ago, Chino Rheem is now on the rail.
As replayed to us by Joe Cassidy, Chino re-raised Bruno Stefanelli's pre-flop raise to 11,000. Stefenalli called and the flop came down . Stefanelli checked and Chino bet 11,000. Stefanelli called and the fell on the turn, leading to another check from Stefanelli.
Chino bet 25,000 and Stefanelli shoved. Chino called all in, showing for the nut-flush draw, while Stefanelli tabled . The river did not help Chino, ending his tournament.
A couple days ago, Sam Trickett wanted us to refer to his buddy Andrew Feldman as "The Feldinator". Well, we might have to change that to "The Double-nator" if he keeps doubling up.
Feldman was all in with pocket tens and up against the of his opponent. The board ran out and Feldman doubled to about 75,000 chips.
Musa Gunay called Hakan Kuscu's all-in preflop bet with the . Kuscu held the . Kuscu lost after the board ran out and Gunay moved up to 110,000 in chips.