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Kestutis Slankauskas shoved in mid position and after a few moments' deliberation Matvey Linov made the call.
Slankauskas: 
Linov: 
Board: 
Linov was calling for an eight on the turn, and then for a three although that would have meant he chopped the pot with Slankauskas. As it was however neither of those cards came in: Linov's nines held up and Slankauskas hit the rail.
Manuel Bevand just got eliminated pushing 
into the 
of Eddie Tasbas with the board coming 
.
Jonathan Weekes opened his button, and Oleg Makovenko called in the small blind.
Flop: 
- Makovenko checked, and Weekes bet 30,000. Makovenko made a careful call.
Turn: 
- Makovenko took the initiative this time. Well, sort of. He min-bet 8,000. Weekes was confused, but opted just to call.
River: - Makovenko went back to checking, and Weekes tried to take it down with a 70,000 bet. Makovenko looked him up, and all Weekes could show was 
for ace-high and the sevens on the board. Makovenko's 
was good enough to win, leaving Weekes at 455,000, his lowest point in a day.
Rikard Relander, one of two Estonians left standing, limped in the cutoff, and on the button, Bassam Elnajjar raised to 18,500. Big-stacked small blind Matvey Linov reraised to 51,500. Relander folded, but Elnajjar opted to four-bet to 111,500. Linov took his time to consider the action.
"Where are you from?" he asked.
"What does that change?" Elnajjar wanted to know.
"Just wondering," said Linov. Elnajjar told him he was from Lebanon, and Linov returned the favor, saying he was from Russia. He followed that statement with a fold, asking to see one card. Elnajjar let him pick which one, then turned over the 
. Linov wasn't happy, but after winning a big pot previously, he's still got a quite healthy 655,000.
Perica Bukara clearly has someone looking down on him from above, the Serbian just had 
against Jussi Jaatinen's 
and made a flush on the 
board to knock out one of the Finnish brothers.
Bukara is up to an almost chip leadery 750,000
Kevin Stani raised in the cutoff and Mihail Erst shoved from the small blind for not much more - perhaps five big blinds total. Stani made the call and they were on their backs.
Erst: 
Stani:
Board: 
None of those cards changed anything for Erst, and he wandered off to collect his winnings.
Eddie Tasbas opened the button to 20,000 and Frederik Boberg pushed from the big blind, Tasbas asked for a count and seemingly satisfied, made the call.
Tasbas: 
Boberg:
The board came 
, Boberg eliminated, Tasbas closing in on the 300,000 mark.
We caught up with this particular blind-on-blind confrontation on the river, the board reading 
. Ali Tekintamgac (small blind) had bet out around 40,000, and Toni Ojala (big blind) had raised to around 105,000 with only 80,000 or so behind.
Tekintamgac squinted at Ojala for a little while before nodding and announcing a call, but winced when Ojala turned over 
for a full house on the river. Tekintamgac showed him 
and dropped to 420,000. Ojala increased to a slightly better 430,000.
Konstantin Bilyaver opened the button to 20,000 and Rob Sherwood moved all-in from the big blind. Bilyaver instantly called and Sherwood looked worried as he turned over his but he was racing against the Russian's .
Neither got any help on the 
flop but the turn left Bilyaver drawing dead.
Sherwood doubles up to 300,000
Minutes after Rob Sherwood picked up a big pot, he was back in the thick of things in a hand he'd rather have skipped. Carlo Federico Bordogna raised in the cutoff, and on the button, Sherwood made it 53,000 to go. Then big blind Daniel Aldridge cold four-bet shoved for about 135,000. The table gave off a murmur when Bordogna over-shoved for 169,500. Sherwood was in quite the spot. He knew his hand couldn't be good, but he was getting the right price to call anyway. So call he did, but the cards he saw were exactly what he didn't want.
Aldridge:
Bordogna: 
Sherwood:
"I'm dead then," Sherwood said, turning his cards face down again when he saw the other hands. "I suggest you make a straight," said a tablemate. But a straight was not to be. The board came 
, and with the king on the river, Bordogna took the hand. Aldridge was eliminated, Sherwood dropped to 135,000, and Bordogna suddenly found himself with 475,000.
