Immediately after the Freitez-triple hand, Pedro Pellicer got involved in a HUGE pot with Simon Higgins to steal the chip lead so recently regained by the British player. It was all in preflop, Higgins making the final call of Pellicer's shove for over 1,600,000 with . He had a shot at eliminating Pellicer, who held , but instead doubled him up, the board running out .
Pellicer now has nearly 3.5 million chips and the 'all-change!' theme for today is still running strong.
Ivan Freitez shoved for 420,000 and Juan Maceiras called. But Pedro Pellicer reshoved, forcing a fold from Maceiras. On their backs.
Freitez:
Pellicer:
Board:
Freitez flopped a flush and Pellicer failed to turn or river a higher one. It was a presumably unexpected full triple up for the Venezuelan and he's now at around 1.3 million.
Eugene Yanayt min-raised from the hijack and it folded around to Torsten Brinkmann in the big blind who reraised to 195,000. Yanayt tanked for several minutes, and then four-bet to 450,000.
Ankush Mandavia opened to a non-standard (most players are min-raising) 85,000 and it folded around to Thomas Pettersson in the big blind, who tanked. "I wanna get it in with this hand," Mandavia told him. "Come on, ship it." Pettersson declined to ship though, and Mandavia picked up the blinds and antes. He allowed Pettersson to turn over one of his hole cards - it was the .
Eugene Yanayt continues to be the most aggressive player at the outer table, he opened to 60,000 preflop and was called by the other big stack on the table, Torsten Brinkmann. The German check-called a bet of 70,000 on the flop before the turn and river were checked down. Yanayt mucked as Brinkmann turned over for the pot.
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. He had a shot at eliminating Pellicer, who held 
, but instead doubled him up, the board running out 
.
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and Palovic's big slick was no longer in the running, the Slovakian goes out in 14th place.
flop before the 
turn and 
river were checked down. Yanayt mucked as Brinkmann turned over 
for the pot.