Onur Unsal got his short stack in preflop with and fellow short stack Aykutalp Yilmaz had him covered. Even worse, Yilmaz also showed the better hand in and the board ran out . Unsal made the second payout step after being down to as low as one ante throughout the day and below the chip counts of the secondary table can be found.
Atanas Kavrakov raised to 13,000 and snap-called the three-bet shove of Michael Mizrachi for what looked like 65,000 with . It was a flip against the of the American and Kavrakov would emerge victorious on a board of .
Ercan Olgun appears to be the new chip leader and it could have been Carl Martzen if he didn't had to let Vitalii Grekul double through him for 120,000 with pocket kings. However, Martzen took revenge shortly after, three-betting from 13,000 to 30,000 and Grekul calling.
Grekul check-called 34,000 on the flop and 60,000 on the turn before check-folding to the all in on the river.
There's only one level left before players bag and tag their chips for the day. This also allows for time to head to the official WPT players party, which kicks off around 23:00 local time.
At the same time another huge hand happened on the third table, Erwann Pecheux three-bet shoved his short stack with pocket kings. Initial raiser Jack Torbay called from under the gun with ace-quen and hit the ace in order to knock out the Frenchman.
For his efforts, Pecheux collects €3,800 and will most likely jump straight into the next event.
After the previous three-way all in, Michael Mizrachi got involved in yet another massive pot. He called a raise to 10,500 by Carl Maertzen and the player in the big blind called as well. Maertzen then made a continuation bet of 14,000 on the flop and only Mizrachi called.
On the turn, Maertzen made it 31,000 to go and "The Grinder" didn't go anywhere, tossed in the chips. With the river as final card, F.S. bet 76,000 and Mizrachi moved all in. Since a backdoor flush seemed unlikely, the Austrian called for over 200,000 with and the American had to show for a busted gutshot ...
Sergey Minaev was all in preflop after a raise and Michael Mizrachi isolated but Atanas Kavrakov didn't go anywhere, putting himself also at risk for 232,500. Mizrachi had the biggest stack but Minaev's already took away one of his outs, as the American had and Kavrakov flipped with .
The board ran out to put a dent into Mizrachi's stack and eliminate Minaev in 19th place.