Catalin Pop raised to 21,000 first to act with and Florin Tatu shoved for 64,000 with the . Levente Pal called with in the cutoff and Pop came along with the extra few chips.
On the flop, Pop bet 40,000 and Pal called. The turn paired the board and Pop led for 35,000, Pal called once more. After the river, Pop bet 25,000 and Pal called to see the bad news, while Tatu was eliminated.
Andrei Mihai Dimitriu raised with the and was called by Florin Tatu with the in the hijack, Levente Pal on the button with and Stefan Fabian in the big blind with . On the flop, it was Tatu that bet 25,000 with 65,000 behind and was called by Pal and Fabian.
The turn brought a bet of Fabian for 62,000 and that won the pot uncontested.
The feature table is still running on a delay of 30 minutes while all remaining 31 players were sent into a 60-minute dinner break. Action resumes at 8.48 p.m. local time and a maximum of four levels or down to the official final table remain, whichever of the two comes first.
In a battle of the blinds, Sergiu Cornea got his last six big blinds in from the small blind with the . Iulian Lucian Dragan called from the big blind with and the board came to eliminate Cornea in 32nd place.
A raise by Madalin Cornel Petraru in early position was just called by Hristo Panteleev in the cutoff and the flop fell . Petraru bet and called the shove of Panteleev for around 80,000 instantly.
Hristo Panteleev:
Madalin Cornel Petraru:
The turn and river failed to improve the Bulgarian and he quickly headed over to Philip Poppinghaus to say goodbye before leaving the tournament area.
After the action had slowed down significantly on all tables, there were three bustouts in quick succession including one on the feature table. On the outer tables, Gusti Adrian Sas and Tomer Wolf departed, the latter falling victim to the hot run of Madalin Cornel Petraru. Petraru's pocket kings were not in danger to the queen-jack suoted of Wolf and the iPhone X winner departed in 35th place.
There are two 888poker online qualifiers still in the field and they happen to be on the same table. Sinisa Radovanovic just folded to the check-raise all in of Zhiping Zeng on a flop of and was cut down to around 170,000, while Krzysztof Chmielowski has almost double of that.
In a battle of the blinds, Andrei Iordache limped in and Zhiping Zeng raised to 20,000, Iordache called. On the flop, Iordache check-called a bet of 30,000 and check-shoved the turn when facing a bet of 60,000, Zeng snap-called.
Andrei iordache:
Zhiping Zeng:
The river was a mere formality and Iordache departed in 37th place, the remaining 36 players were balanced on the last four tables.