We caught up with an interesting blind-on-blind confrontation on the turn, the board reading . It looked as though Toni Ojala (small blind) had check-raised. Seppo Parkkinen (big blind) appeared to have bet; either way, he was calling the raise when we arrived.
They saw a river and this time Ojala bet 87,000 - we think this was the entirety of his remaining stack, although there was a dealer awkwardly in the way so we cannot confirm it one way or the other. Parkkinen tanked up for a minute or two before tentatively pushing the call across the line - and then mucking when Ojala turned over for a turned straight.
Ojala upped his stack to around 330,000. Parkkinen meanwhile dropped back to 150,000.
Last casualty before the break was Artem Litvinov, whose pocket fives failed to improve against Michal Polchlopek's pocket jacks. Polchlopek's stack looked to be at 500,000 or so after that hand, around twice the average.
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Luca Pagano - maintaining records all over the place
By the by, we know we say this at pretty much every EPT, but Luca Pagano, the man with the most EPT cashes ever, has just made his record a little harder to beat. This now represents his 15th EPT cash, and although he is now in possession of a slightly below average stack - around 235,000 - he still has a pretty good shot at bettering another of his own records by making a seventh final table.
Usually after the bubble bursts, there are a flurry of bust outs as the short stacks clear out and the bigger stacks take bigger risks. But today's field decided not to follow that trend. We've only had six eliminations and few other hands of note since reaching the money. Perhaps it's because of the length of time most players are taking to make each decision, or perhaps it's just a coincidence of the cards. Either way, with average stack around 30 big blinds, players will eventually have to get moving.
It folded around to Eddie Tasbas in the small blind who pushed all in, and Frederik Boberg quickly called in the big blind.
"Oh wow," sighed Tasbas.
Tasbas:
Boberg:
Board: ...
Tasbas was already standing to leave, but as the three dropped on the river he announced, "Boom!" with feeling and sat back down. He doubled to 220,000. Boberg looked ill and dropped as they swapped stacks, his own dropping to 112,000.
Clayton Mozdzen managed a small double up with against to get back over the six-figure mark. Soon after though, he was all-in once more but his was dominated by Javed Abrahams and with the board coming that's one more player going to the rail.
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. It looked as though Toni Ojala (small blind) had check-raised. Seppo Parkkinen (big blind) appeared to have bet; either way, he was calling the raise when we arrived.
river and this time Ojala bet 87,000 - we think this was the entirety of his remaining stack, although there was a dealer awkwardly in the way so we cannot confirm it one way or the other. Parkkinen tanked up for a minute or two before tentatively pushing the call across the line - and then mucking when Ojala turned over 
for a turned straight.
... 
to get back over the six-figure mark. Soon after though, he was all-in once more but his 
was dominated by Javed Abrahams 
