Nikita Lebedov
We pick up the action on the turn in a heads-up pot as the board read . First to speak was Sergey Antonenko, and he put out a bet of 15,000. Nikita Lebedov was his lone opponent, and he took his time before making the call.
The last card off the deck was the , and Antonenko fired a small bet of 8,000 into a pot of more than 50,000. After some time in the tank, Lebedov announced a healthy raise to 55,000. Antonenko immediately grabbed calling chips out of his stack, but it would be another two or three minutes before he finally mustered the strength to put them into the pot. When he did so, Lebedov tabled for the stone-cold nuts.
After that win, he is all the way up to 255,000, while Antonenko has slipped all the way down to about 65,000.
Lika Gerasimova - Out
Lika Gerasimova opened the pot with a raise, and she was re-raised all in by an opponent further down the line. She committed the rest of her chips to the pot with pocket sevens, only to see she'd run smack into pocket eights.
A board full of blanks spelled the end of her day, and the end of boyfriend Ivan Demidov's day on the rail as well.
Alexander Grischuk opened by pushing all in for his last 45,000, and the table folded around to David Jaoui. Jaoui had yet to act when Kirill Boydachenko, sitting in between Jaoui and Grischuk, announced he was calling and exposed his hand -- .
The floor was called over, and first Jaoui was allowed to act. He folded. Then Grischuk showed his hand, tabling . The board came , and Grischuk doubled to 92,000.
It was then explained to Boydachenko that he would be serving a one-round penalty, and must sit out the next eight hands for having exposed his hand with action pending. He'll lose some blinds and antes during that round, but will return to a still-healthy stack of 295,000.
With the pot already about 50,000 and a flop showing , Michael Naletov (under the gun) checked, [Removed:466] (button) bet 30,000, and Naletov called. The turn brought the . Both players checked.
The river came the . Naletov took about two minutes to think about it, then patted the felt to check. Rotach did not hesitate at all, grabbing a tall stack of yellow chips and pushing out a bet of 100,000. The bet would nearly put Naletov all in. He thought a bit further, then folded.
Naletov sits at about 115,000 at present, while Rotach has moved up to 322,000.
With the action folded around to the blinds, David Jaoui limped in from the small, and Alex Fitzgerald slowly tapped the table from the big.
The flop came out , and Jaoui led out with a bet of 3,600. Fitzgerald quickly flicked in an oversized calling chip, and the turn card brought the . Both men checked the action before the hit the river. Jaoui took control again with another bet, 6,500 this time. Fitzgerald paused for just a quick beat before once again calling.
Jaoui was reluctant to turn his cards over, eventually showing an airball . Fitzgerald tabled , his ace-high good enough to add a few chips to his stack.
Shortly after that hand, Oleksander Vaserfirer opened with a raise to 6,600 from the cutoff, then Fitzgerald reraised to 17,500 from the small blind. It folded back to Vaserfirer who reraised again to 40,500. Fitzgerald thought a moment, then announced he was all in. The dealer counted out his chips -- 131,600 total.
Vaserfirer thought for two minutes, then finally folded. "Queens? Ace-king?" asked Fitzgerald's tablemates. He just smiled.
Fitzgerald is up to 180,000, while Vaserfirer now sits with about 135,000.
Sergei Pevzner opened with a raise to 7,000 and Volodymyr Zakharov made a three-bet to 22,000. Peyzner then moved all in, and Zakharov made the call for his own tournament life, committing his final 111,800 chips to the pot and showing down . The race was on as his opponent tabled .
The board would run out safe for the at-risk player, coming . With his queens holding, Zakharov notches a big double up to about 225,000. That loss slips Peyzer down into the danger zone under 15,000.
On an adjacent table, Gregory Zima was all in with himself, and he found action and a race from David Sonelin who turned over . This time though, a king on the flop spelled salvation for the overcards, Zima picking up a crucial double up to about 120,000.
The table had folded around to Alexander Grischuk in the small blind. Grischuk checked his cards, then looked at his below average stack of just over 60,000. He gave Bernard Boutboul a quick look over in the big blind, then let it go.
Boutboul showed Grischuk his hand -- -- and the table shared a laugh. Boutboul has 215,000 right now.
The action is unclear for this hand, but we walked up with all five community cards out on the board reading . Albert Sungatullin and Anatoliy Ozhemilok had all of their chips out in the middle of the felt, Sungatullin showing the winning to Ozhemilok's .
We couldn't tell when the money went in, but when the chips were counted down, Ozhemilok's loss left him with just about 5,000 funny money to play with.
On the next hand, David Sonelin opened with a raise to 6,400 holding , and Ozhemilok comminted his last few chips from the big blind with . The board ran to give Sonelin the winning Broadway straight and the knockout.
Arnaud Mattern - Out
Arnaud Mattern was lucky enough to double up on his first hand of the day. As it turned out, though, it just gave him a few more chips to go broke with.
Mattern opened the pot with a raise holding , and he would eventually get it all in after a re-raising war with Sergey Antonenko. When Antonenko tabled , Mattern shook his head and began to gather his belongings.
Indeed, the board ran out blanks for the French pro, and he has been sent to the rail here early in Day 3.
. First to speak was Sergey Antonenko, and he put out a bet of 15,000. Nikita Lebedov was his lone opponent, and he took his time before making the call.
, and Antonenko fired a small bet of 8,000 into a pot of more than 50,000. After some time in the tank, Lebedov announced a healthy raise to 55,000. Antonenko immediately grabbed calling chips out of his stack, but it would be another two or three minutes before he finally mustered the strength to put them into the pot. When he did so, Lebedov tabled 
for the stone-cold nuts.
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. The board came 
, and Grischuk doubled to 92,000. 
, Michael Naletov (under the gun) checked, [Removed:466] (button) bet 30,000, and Naletov called. The turn brought the 
. Both players checked.
. Naletov took about two minutes to think about it, then patted the felt to check. Rotach did not hesitate at all, grabbing a tall stack of yellow chips and pushing out a bet of 100,000. The bet would nearly put Naletov all in. He thought a bit further, then folded.
, and Jaoui led out with a bet of 3,600. Fitzgerald quickly flicked in an oversized calling chip, and the turn card brought the 
. Both men checked the action before the 
hit the river. Jaoui took control again with another bet, 6,500 this time. Fitzgerald paused for just a quick beat before once again calling.
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. With his queens holding, Zakharov notches a big double up to about 225,000. That loss slips Peyzer down into the danger zone under 15,000.
. Albert Sungatullin and Anatoliy Ozhemilok had all of their chips out in the middle of the felt, Sungatullin showing the winning 
