The players have finished another 54 minutes of play, and have earned themselves another six minutes break. In spectacular fashion Fabrizio "DrMiKee" Gonzalez is still holding the chiplead, as have been the case since the very first break of the day.
Russias Aleksandr "Evnomiya" Mordvinov is no more in this $2,100 Super XL High Roller. Folded around to Austrian player "88TIGER889" in the small blind he put Mordvinov to the test for 34,656 chips. The Russian woke up with and called it off, but a on the river improved the of "88TIGER889" to the winning hand, and Mordvinov exited just a few spots shy of the money.
Fabrizio "DrMiKee" Gonzalez opened the action with a raise from first position to 8,000, and Kafrou "Kafrou" Thessalonik of Greece shoved all-in right behind him for 51,777. Jonathan "chut_up" Van Fleet woke up with in the cutoff, and once the button, blinds and Gonzalez was out of the way, Kafrou's were turned over.
Board ran out , and Van Fleet was awarded the pot. 29 players remain.
Romanian player "glezna23" raised it up to 8,000 from early position and only Lawrence "cjacksallin" Cheung in the small blind called. The flop landed , and now Cheung led for 8,000, before calling the raise of 14,000 from his opponent.
The turn came , and this time Cheung opted for a check-minraise to 45,400. "glezna23" thought about it for a few seconds before jamming for 113,353 total, and that was enough to take down the pot.
Argentina's "progree69" has just left the tournament in 29th after getting the money in preflop with against the of "pintofbeer44" and not getting there. The remaining 28 players are now hand-for-hand.
The bigger stacks have really turned up the aggression since the hand-for-hand mode was announced, and especially Fabrizio "DrMiKee" Gonzalez is thriving at this point in time.
First he four-bet to 62.500 over a raise from Jonathan "chut_up" Van Fleet and a reraise from Pim "SuprNintend0" de Goede, and the very next hand he took a big lunch out of Pascal "Paeffchen" Hartmann, when the of Gonzalez made trips on the turn and got paid on two streets.
Pascal "Paeffchen" Hartmann is the bubble boy at this Event #28 $350,000 Gurantee - High Roller at the 2017 Super XL Series on 888poker.
Preflop Hartmann got his 20 big blinds in with , but the aggressive Fabrizio "DrMiKee" Gonzalez had found this time around, and the aces held up for the big pot.
After that pot Gonzalez is by far the biggest stack, with almost twice as much as Marton "WorldIsOurs" Czuczor in second place.
Simon "Isildur1337x" Mattson shoved his remaining 56,577 chips all in from the cutoff and Belarusian player "spider4444" shoved over the top from the button. The blinds both folded, and Mattson got the bad news.
Mattson:
"spider4444":
The board ran out . and the Belarusian player dragged the pot, while Mattson was eliminated in 23rd place.