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Nicolas Babel found an open spot on the button to get his last 115k in preflop. Melanie Weisner thought only briefly before making the call with 
. Fair enough indeed - Babel held 
. But the board had other ideas than to let the best hand preflop hold up - the board ran out 
and he rises to 230k while she drops to about the same stack.
Team PokerStars pro, Salvatore Bonavena finds himself sat with 855,000 chips after eliminating Morgan Bauer.
Bauer moved all in preflop from the button for a total of 170,000 chips holding 
but found a caller in the shape of Bonavena in the small blind holding 
, a typical coinflip scenario
The 
flop gave Bonavena some outs to the spade flush but the 
on the river was not one of them. However, the on the river was one of the Italian's outs and with that the tournament is down to 32 players.
Rob Hollink might be ducking and diving like a cormorant today, but he couldn't shake Marco Leonzio on a low flop: 
. Leonzio check-raised (28k-66k) only to find Hollink putting in yet another raise, this time to 108k. He made the call, and that pretty much shut off the betting over the 
turn and 
river. Hollink checked the river behind and mucked when Leonzio showed 
.
We didn't quite catch the hand, but Kiril Zahariev has become the latest player to trudge to the payout desk. Sergio Rodriguez Sanchez was stacking up chips as Zahariev departed, and is up to around 650,000.
In case you are not aware, we have a husband and wife still in the tournament, Josh and Helen Prager, though the latter is now severely short on chips after clashing with Ludovic Marguerat.
Prager moved all in preflop from the button with 
and Marguerat made the call in the small blind with 
. The final board ran out 
and Prager had to give 172,000 or her stack to her opponent, leaving her very short stacked
We arrived on the river of a 
board to find that Manuel Bevand (small blind) had checked and Emiliano Bono (button) had bet 65,000. This prompted a dwell of many minutes from Bevand before he eventually called. Bevand turned over 
which was well ahead of Bono's nothing-y .Bevand looked quietly smug as his stack increased to 840,000; Bono was uncharacteristically silent as he dropped back to 360,000.
Fernando Brito, the man who will be crowned the European Poker Tour Player of the Year when the points from Prague are added up, is out of the tournament after a cooler of a hand.
Brito raised preflop with 
and was called by Marco Leonzio holding 
and when the flop came down nine high, Brito lead out, Leonzio moved all in and Brito made the call and was in horrendous shape. No help on the turn or river and the Portuguese businessman is history
The unbelievable rise of Emilliano Bono continues, this time at the expense of Sergio Rodriguez Sanchez. Bono raised to 25k preflop, and Sanchez called in the big blind. The flop came 
and Sanchez check-called 20k. Both players checked the 
turn, but on the river when Sanchez checked again, Bono looked at his stack and sort of banged a fist down lightly (prompting a warning about check-like action when it was on him).
He looked to be counting out random amounts of chips, before settling on 85k for the river bet. Sanchez made the call and mucked when Bono showed 
; he's down to around 250,000.
Haykel Cherif Vidal got his last in with 
and picked up a call from Jean Sami Souleiman holding pocket tens. The board ran out a pretty emphatic and Vidal doubled to 310,000. Souleiman was left with 290,000.
A big pot for Denis Kipnis knocks Sasa Stancic down to just 120,000. Kipnis had three-bet preflop from the button and Stancic made the call.
The flop: 
. Stancic checked and Kipnis bet 66k (with 250k behind). Back to Stancic who went right into the tank, standing up and pondering his own slightly larger stack.
"I want this hand," he admitted.
"I want it, but I don't know if I win it..."
Finally he moved all in and was shrug-called by Kipnis.
Kipnis: 
Stancic:
The turn and river fell 
giving Kipnis a sudden burst of chip energy (650,000).
