Gabriele Nuzzo opened for 18,000 from the cutoff and Alexander Zayonts defended from the big blind. Both players then checked the flop, the dealer burned and turned the , and Zayonts check-called a bet of 24,000. Both players returned to checking on the river, and Nuzzo rolled over . Unfortunately for him, it was no good as Nuzzo flipped over for tens and fives.
Michele Bianchi's day has come to an end after he busted to Atanas Kavrakov.
The two were heads up to a flop and Bianchi checked to face a 45,000 bet that he called. The turn fell and this is where things got really interesting.
Kavrakov bet 110,000 when his opponent checked to him again. Bianchi tanked for two minutes before he moved all in for 280,000 with . Kavrakov looked back at his cards and made the call with for two-pair.
The river came and Bianchi was led away to the payout desk.
Sabato made it 19,000 before the flop only to be three-bet by Salsberg. Sabato called and the duo saw fall on the flop. Sabato check-called a 65,000 bet and the turn was the . Sabato checked again and Salsberg fired 150,000. Sabato moved all in and Salsberg snapped him off.
Salsberg:
Sabato:
The hit the river and secured Sabato's elimination, boosting Salsberg to 1.25 million as the biggest stack in the room.
With already on the board Charly Maracchione bet 36,000 from under the gun and Michele Di Lauro made the call in the cutoff. It was then Sofia Lovgren's turn to act and she folded her hand.
The dealer opened on the turn and Maracchione pushed in another 53,000. Di Lauro called and both saw the come on the river. Maracchione tanked for a while before making a 134,000 bet. It took a little less time for Di Lauro to make his decision and he pushed in his two blue towers of T5,000 chips for an all-in.
Maracchione didn't like it one bit and mucked his hand giving up the pot to Di Lauro.
Francesco Lorenzini opened to 21,000 from middle position and it folded around to Alex Roumeliotis who moved all in for about 180,000 from the big blind. It folded back to Lorenzini and he thought for about forty-five seconds before finally calling with . Roumeliotis rolled up and was in dire need of some help.
The board ran out and Lorenzini's queens full of nines was able to eliminate Roumeliotis from the field. Lorenzini is now up to about 540,000.
From early position, Isaac Haxton raised to 20,000. [Removed:163] reraised to 60,000 from the hijack position, then action folded back around the table to Haxton. After about 30 seconds, Haxton announced that he was all in.
"All right, I call," was the response from Sheikh as he looked at his stack just to double check things. He held the .
When Haxton saw Sheikh turn up the pocket tens, he wasn't impressed. With a shake of his head, Haxton tabled the .
The board ran out to keep Sheikh's tens in front and give him the double up. He was all in for 264,000 and moved to over 550,000. Haxton slipped back to just about 12 big blinds (127,000).