Level: 20
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 12,000
Level: 20
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 12,000
With the eliminations of Jose Alberto Lopez Gonzalez and Paul Chintoan on the feature table, the field has been reduced to the last 40 hopefuls and Stefan Drusca appears to be the new big stack on the feature table.
Lopez Gonzalez saw his stack reduced to dust as Viorel Gavrila doubled his short stack with ![]()
against his ![]()
thanks to a board of Jd7s6s7h8h]. They both chopped with ace-jack after, then the Spaniard busted.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
600,000
470,000
|
470,000 |
|
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180,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
|
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Busted |
Over on the feature table, Stefan Drusca jammed blind-on-blind with the ![]()
and into the ![]()
of Helder Pinho, who had almost 20 big blinds behind. The board came ![]()
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and Pinho filled up to a full house to double in style.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
518,000
82,000
|
82,000 |
|
|
456,000
174,000
|
174,000 |
Dario Marinelli raised to 26,000 from early position and Eugen Chiva called on the button. Bogdan Nicolae three-bet all in for 68,000 and Marinelli reraised to force out Chiva.
Bogdan Nicolae: ![]()
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Dario Marinelli: ![]()
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The board came ![]()
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and Nicolae more than doubled.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
440,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
|
340,000
28,000
|
28,000 |
|
|
190,000
170,000
|
170,000 |
Before the hand, Zhiping Zeng had already increased his stack to more than 1 million and he added even more after knocking out Traian Mihai. On a flop of ![]()
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, Mihai check-raised out of the small blind from 40,000 to 100,000. Zeng cut out a big reraise that covered Mihai and the all in call followed.
Traian Mihai: ![]()
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Zhiping Zeng: ![]()
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The
turn and
river were both blanks for Mihai and Zeng took an even bigger lead.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,480,000
940,000
|
940,000 |
|
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Busted | |
With the eliminations of Francesco D'Armi, Laurentiu Avram and Dario Marinelli, the field has been reduced to the last 36 hopefuls.
Marinelli had an above-average stack not long ago, but now Alexandru Arnautu and Ran Shahar dominate his former table with even bigger stacks.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
900,000
190,000
|
190,000 |
|
|
700,000
45,000
|
45,000 |
|
|
Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted |
Sofia Lovgren was all in for 193,000 on the feature table with the ![]()
and Helder Pinho looked her up with the ![]()
. The board came ![]()
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and Lovgren doubled.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
416,000
56,000
|
56,000 |
|
|
348,000
108,000
|
108,000 |
Radu Lungu opened to 24,000 and Darius Neagoe three-bet to 70,000 from one seat over. Vasile Rablou jammed out of the big blind and Lungu asked for a count, but folded when it was deemed to be for 550,000. Neagoe quickly called and had the best of it.
Darius Neagoe: ![]()
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Vasile Rablou: ![]()
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The ![]()
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board brought no upset and Neagoe doubled.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
750,000
435,000
|
435,000 |
|
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|
|
190,000
112,000
|
112,000 |
|
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Level: 21
Blinds: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 16,000
Johannes Roumen defended his big blind against a raise to 32,000 by Jose Manuel Planells Castillo and check-folded the ![]()
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flop to a 50,000 continuation bet. Roumen then jammed blind-on-blind with ![]()
into ![]()
and spiked a deuce on the flop to double through Nicolae Suciu.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
500,000
135,000
|
135,000 |
|
|
160,000
140,000
|
140,000 |