Vasili Kesnin three-bet shoved to claim one of the first few pots. The hand after, Kemal Sevevi raised from the button and made a continuation bet on a queen-high flop. His opponent folded and Sevevi showed the , definitely not the worst hand to find on the button.
Vitalii Grekul raised to 23,000 from under the gun and was called by Kemal Sevevi from the cutoff. In the small blind, Atanas Kavrakov three-bet to 76,000 and won the pot.
Shortly after, the Bulgarian raised from the button and was called by Majid Ejlal Noubarian as well as Grekul in the blinds. The three of them checked through the flop and the turn before Noubarian bet 47,000 on the river. Grekul folded but Kavrakov called to better the of the Iranian with .
Ercan Olgun raised from late position and was called by Jacques Torbey in the blinds. Both players checked the flop and the turn. The on the river saw a bet of Torbey for 20,000 and he shrugged to his opponent. "Can't check the river," to expose the after Olgun had folded.
Marco Della Tommasina raised to 20,000 from middle position and some of the opponents on the table were surprised, as the Italian was rather tight. They tried to chat with Italian slang, Atanas Kavrakov made the call out of the big blind.
The Bulgarian check-called a continuation bet of 25,000 on the flop before checking through the on the turn. Kavrakov's 54,000-bet on the river did get through as Della Tommasina folded.
Kemal Sevevi was the initial raiser and got called by Majid Ejlal Noubarian on the button as well as Vitalii Grekul in the small blind. On the flop, the action was checked to the chip leader and he took down the pot with a bet of 55,000. Sevevi mucked the for everybody to see.
Majid Ejlal Noubarian raised to 22,000 and Vitalii Grekul three-bet to 59,000, which prompted the Iranian to ask for the stack size of his opponent. He then called and checked in the dark before the flop. Noubarian check-called the 50,000-continuation bet of Grekul and the turn was checked through.
After the river, Noubarian bet 100,000 and that enforced a fold.
One hand later, Ercan Olgun moved all in for around 170,000 in chips and won the blinds and antes.
In a battle of the blinds, Majid Ejlal Noubarian had Vitalii Grekul at risk for 309,000 and the Ukrainian was way ahead with . Noubarian held and was looking for many spades, fours or aces. The flop gave him bottom pair and a backdoor flush draw, but neither the turn nor the river changed anything.