Usually when players are down to 10-12 big blinds they waste no time in getting their stacks into the middle, but not Mark Herm.
Sotirios Koutoupas opened to 125,000 from the small blind and Herm made the call in the big blind. The flop saw both players check, but Koutoupas lead out for 125,000 when the landed on the turn. Herm called and it was off to the river.
Koutoupas checked, Herm bet 310,000 — over half of his remaining stack — and Koutoupas folded.
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Sotirios Koutoupas, Mark Herm and David Boyaciyan
It took 52 hands for us to finally lose a player, and it was the short stacked Mark Herm.
He had hold of Sotirios Koutoupas' chips for precisely one hand. The man from Greece opened off the button and called in a flash when Herm shoved for 1.19m from the small blind.
Herm:
Koutoupas:
The board ran to make Koutoupas a full house by the turn.
Ben Warrington is down to just 735,000 and is in all-in or fold territory.
On hand #59 of the final table, the action passed around to Warrington on the button and the young Brit opened the betting with a raise to 125,000. The small blind folded but Aleh Plauski three-bet to 1,800,000. The oversized three-bet was designed to put Warrington all-in, but he did not take the bait and Plauski won without a showdown.
When you really need a double up there's not many better spots than to look down and see aces after an under the gun raise. Especially when the opener is Sergey Kuzminskiy who has hardly played a hand so far.
The Russian opened to 120,000 and tank-called when Warrington moved all in for 715,000 from mid position.
The board ran to miss both players.
Warrington, who has close links to Spain after living there for ten years, celebrated with his own and Diego Gomez's supporters.
Ramzi Jelassi opened on the button and Aleh Plauski called from the big blind. The duo checked the flop and Plauski checked again on the turn.
Jelassi bet 145,000 and Plauski called. The fifth and final community card was the and Plauski checked again. Jelassi bet 295,000 and was instantly called by his opponent.
Jelassi opened for a turned straight and Plauski snap-mucked.
Another level has been completed and we are on a 20-minute break. Join us in, well, 20-minutes as we continue our coverage of the EPT Prague main event. Seven remain.
Nothing much went right for Aleh Plauski today. He was beaten up by David Boyaciyan in two big pots and he was just finished off by Ramzi Jelassi.
The Swede opened to 160,000 before Plauski three-bet to 350,000. Jelassi came back with a four-bet to 540,000 and call when Plauski shoved for 2,450,000.
Plauski:
Jelassi:
The board ran .
Jelassi lost the last big race he had but this time managed to hold and now has twice the chips of any other player.
flop saw both players check, but Koutoupas lead out for 125,000 when the 
landed on the turn. Herm called and it was off to the 
river.
to make Koutoupas a full house by the turn.
flop and Plauski checked again on the 
turn.
and Plauski checked again. Jelassi bet 295,000 and was instantly called by his opponent.
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