We now have 315 players left after Alexey Rybin eliminated Gianluca Marcucci. Marcucci had moved all-in holding and Rybin called with . No ace or any strange straight or flush combinations for Marcucci who left shaking hands with everyone except his conqueror.
Rupert Elder is over the 200,000 mark after winning a decent pot with . He saw a three-way flop of X where he was the only caller of a 9,000 bet. Both he and his opponent checked the turn to see the river, where Elder now faced a bet of 10,200, the Brit responded with a raise to 32,000 which was called. Elder tabled his and his opponent flashed the before mucking.
Morten Mortensen, who finalled the EPT at Snowfest, started today with a below average stack of around 35,000 but has now boosted himself to about 100,000. He had seen his 14,500 bet on the turn of a board check-raised to 31,000 by Domenico Spinelli. Mortensen made the call and then Spinelli intriguingly checked the river, Mortensen did not check back however and instead bet 29,000 which was quickly called by the Italian.