was up against
for the enormous pot. The board ran out clean:
, and Palovic let out a yelp of celebration.Palovic is up to 275,000 now. The Slovakian, who is known for insisting on keeping his chips in stacks of five, finally ran out of room and gave in. Now his red T1,000 chips are in stacks of 10, though he's still covering plenty of real estate. After the hand, Palovic turned to Joao Barbosa and gave him a warning. "Don't take it personally, but you are my next target, not because of you, but because of your chips." Barbosa has position on Palovic and is certain to fiercely defend his 190,000-chip stack.
up against
. The
flop was bad news for Keiner. He got some extra hope when the
turn gave him an open-ended straight draw, but the
. His opponent had bet 25,500 into the 45,000-chip pot. Finally Helppi emerged with a call but regretted the decision as soon as he saw his opponent's
flop. The original raiser checked, and then quickly folded to a 7,500 bet from Huber.

to Miika Puumalainen. He fired a bet of 11,000 and then Danzer check-raised to 23,000. Puumalainen made the call.