Marian Strachinescu opened to 125,000 with the and Krzysztof Chmielowski three-bet to 375,000 with the in the small blind. Bogdan Diaconu had in the big blind and folded.
Strachinescu then raised to 125,000 first to at with the and Sinisa Radovanovic three-bet all in from the hijack for 840,000 with the . After having taken a few hits to his stack recently, Strachinescu used one time bank extension before calling it off.
The board came and the 888poker online qualifier Radovanovic doubled up and into second place, while Chmielowski has more than three times as many chips at the top of the leader board.
Andrei Racolta raised to 120,000 with and Marian Strachinescu shoved for 1.1 million with the , racolta called. The board brought no surprise and they chopped it up.
Krzysztof Chmielowski raised to 105,000 with the and Andrei Racolta in the big blind defended the . On the flop, Racolta checked and called a bet of 110,000 before the turn then saw Racolta bet and Chmielowski quickly folded.
Madalin Cornel Petraru raised to 110,000 with the first to act and Sinisa Radovanovic called with from one seat over. The flop fell and Petraru bet 115,000, Radovanovic folded.
In the next hand radovanovic raised to 110,000 with from under the gun and Petraru in the big blind defended the . On the flop, both players checked and the fell on the turn. Petraru checked and
Madalin Cornel Petraru raised to 125,000 with the and Krzysztof Chmielowski three-bet to 350,000 out of the big blind with to force a fold. After losing just very few hands, the online qualifier from Poland moved back up to seven million in chips.
Krzysztof Chmielowski raised to 125,000 with the in the hijack and Andrei racolta on the button three-bet to 350,000 with . The flop fell and Chmielowski checked, Racolta bet 250,000 and that won the pot.
The €2,200 High Roller single-entry is down to the last nine players and 888poker ambassador Sofia Lovgren turned into "The Terminator." After turning a set with pocket nines to crack the pocket aces of Adrian Sorel State, she busted State with versus .
Marius-Alexandru Gicovanu fell to her when his was no match against Lovgren's had the far superior kicker, and Alexandru Waleed Gavrilut's ended up second best to the of Lovgren.
The birthday girl from yesterday enters the final table with 200,000, followed by Alexandru Papazian with 166,400. Narcis Gabriel Nedelcu (135,000) and Ana Marquez (115,000) follow next and other notables still in are Eduard Norel (90,000) and Danut Chisu (90,000). The top five spots get paid at least €5,250 while the winner takes home €26,080.