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Riccardo Lacchinelli has been knocked out by the mammoth stack that is Nicolas Yunis. We're unsure when the chips went in but the board was reading 
and Lacchinelli's 
had been defeated on the river by Yunis' 
.
Yunis now looks to have almost 3 million in chips.
Rupert Elder fired out 210,000 on the turn of a 
flop against Roberto Spada in a blind on blind battle, getting called by his opponent to see a 
river which both players checked. Spada turned over 
but it was no good, Elder flipped 
for a missed gutshot that had somehow spiked a backdoor flush.
Elder moves up to 1,500,000 while Spada drops to 1,600,000
We caught up with Team PokerStars Pros Max Lykov and Joe Cada on the river of an 
board. Lykov had bet out 86,000 from the big blind position and to his immediate left past the dealer Cada was pulling a face and hovering the call above the felt. Eventually he let the handful of chips drop, denoting a call, and Lykov had to turn over 
for a complete bluff. Cada'a pocket 
were good, and the former World Champion is up to 1.55 million. The EPT Kyiv champion is down to 1.15 million.
We caught up with the über-stacked Nicolas Yunis checking the turn of a 
board from the big blind, and then calling 75,000 from the short-stacked Marco Fabbrini on the button. They saw a 
on the river and Yunis checked again; this time Fabbrini checked behind and turned over 
. He was rewarded with a muck from Yunis, and he then celebrated with an almighty sigh.
Fabbrini is in a little less trouble on 650,000 now; Yunis' stack was barely dented and he still is our current chip leader on 2.45 million.
Paul Ribaud moved all-in for a total of 129,000 and Xuan Liu verbally announced a raise before putting 200,000 in front of her from the cut-off. Team Pokerstars Pro Max Lykov announced that he was all-in and a slight bit of chaos ensued which involved the floor being called.
The problem was the size of Liu's raise, 200,000 was not the minimum, and Thomas Kremser advised her that her raise needed to be 234,000. She threw the loose change into the pot and mucked her hand leaving Lykov to tango with Ribaud.
| Ribaud | |
| Max Lykov |  |
Ribaud cheered as the sight of Lykov's hand until he saw the flop.
Board: 
Lykov ~ 1,600,000
Max Heinzelmann has just been introduced to his new table mate Freddy Darakjian. On a 
board Darakjian bet 80,000, Heinzelmann raised to 200,000, Darakjian moved all-in and Heinzelmann snap-folded.
Heinzelmann ~ 600,000
Darakjian ~ 820,000
Giuseppe Caciolo has been knocked out, reraising all in with against Massimiliano Manigrasso's and failing to spike on a board of 
. The end of the day is in sight...
Dario Nittolo shoved for 281,000 under the gun and it folded around - but while the button and small blind had still to act, Nicola Grieco got up and abandoned his big blind. His cards were mucked. Nittolo was understandably unhappy about this and TD Thomas Kremser was called over - as Grieco had already been issued with two penalties during the week, this time his penalty was for three rounds. He seemed determined to spend it arguing with the floormen at the rail.
Joe Cada raised to 45,000 in the hijack and Max Heinzelmann re-popped to 114,000 on the button. Cada four-bet to 175,000, but Heinzelmann five-bet all in, and Cada swiftly gave it up.
Cada: 1.32 million
Heinzelmann: 950,000
Switzerland's hopes have been dashed with the demise of Stefan Huber. His 
was miles behind Fabrizio Cataldi's 
when the chips went in, and it stayed that way all down the 
board. Meanwhile the chance of our first Uruguayan EPT winner just got slightly better - Cataldi is up to 1.4 million.
