Anatoly Filatov was just eliminated when he ran his ace-eight into the ace-five of this opponent for the 520,000 he still had behind. His opponent hit the five on the right to send the partypoker Sponsored pro home early.
Denis Timofeev raised to 110,000 from the under-the-gun position and Manig Loeser was the only one to call from the small blind.
They both checked through the on the flop to the on the turn. Loeser announced a bet of 115,000 and Timofeev folded before Loeser could even grab the chips to put them over the line.
Farid Jattin raised to 90,000 from early position to be met with a shove of 615,000 by Alexander Sack in the cutoff. Kenny Hallaert was sitting in the small blind and checked the stack of the player in the big blind. Hallaert decided to shove too with the bigger stack without realizing that there was an initial raiser in the hand. The big blind and Jattin folded in the end. Some relief could be seen on Hallaert's face.
Alexander Sack:
Kenny Hallaert:
The board ran out - the river made Hallaert's two pair worthless in the end and Sack doubled up while struggling to maintain his composure.
The 237 remaining players have just left for their last 15-minute break of the day. After this break, the period to register or reenter will end and the final numbers should be confirmed soon after that.
Joining the action on the flop, Kristen Bicknell in late position and Natalia Breviglieri in the cutoff both invested 75,000 each. Bicknell then checked the on the turn and called a bet of 205,000 by Breviglieri to check the on the river.
Breviglieri checked behind and Bicknell smiled, then turned over for the flush to rake in the pot. “I run too good,” she added and boosted her stack to almost four times the starting stack.