We're doing our best to find a Vincent van der Fluit hand for our Dutch readers. This task has been harder than hoped this tournament. It's almost like he's hiding from us! The best we can do, for now, is a squeeze play.
There was an under the gun open to 6,500 and a flat call from Eddie Tasbas in late position. Van Der Fluit was in the small blind and three-bet to 19,600. It did the job as both players folded.
Stuart Rutter's tournament has come to an abrupt end, just six places off the money. Rutter had been grinding a short stack all tournament long, but he couldn't hang in there.
Sergio Aido Espina battled in a four-bet pot with Nicholas Galtos and got the better of him, utilising his position to great effect (or so it seemed from the rail.)
Galtos opened to 6,100 and four-bet to 35,200 all from the cut-off. Espina was on the button and three-bet to 15,500 and called the four-bet to see a 
flop appear.
Galton continued for 27,800. Call. The turn fell as 
and Galtos checked to face a 19,600 bet form Espina. He acted disgruntled and folded.
The action passed around to Marc-Andre Ladouceur in the cutoff and he opened with a raise. The button folded, but John Taramas three-bet to 15,200. With the action back on him, Ladouceur four-bet to 26,300. Taramas went into the tank for close to a minute before five-betting to 42,000 — leaving himself around 80,000 behind.
Ladouceur had received enough information at this point and he gave up on the hand.
Andrey Gulyy opened to 6,000 in middle position, Emeric Styevlik three-bet to 12,000 on his direct left, and Ramzi Jelassi called in the hijack seat.
Souheil Mansour moved all in for around 60,000 from the small blind, Gulyy quickly folded, and Styevlik re-shoved for around 180,000 total. Jelassi tanked for 20 seconds or so, then folded.
Mansour: 
Styevlik: 
The board ran out 
, and Mansour was eliminated.
"I should've called," Jelassi said after the hand. "I had the nuts."
"Good fold," Styevlik said, smiling.
Andrey Gulyy has just doubled through Jeffrey Hakim and is up to 200,000 chips.
We arrived at the pair's table to see a board that read 
and Gulyy sat with 
in front of him. We do know that the chips got all in preflop, and that Hakim held .
Nice river!
Grzegorz Wyraz found himself all in preflop for his last 53,000 holding 
and in bad shape against an unknown opponent's 
. The 
flop was no help to Wyraz, and the 
turn brought him one step closer to elimination.
Just as Wyraz stood from his seat and prepared to exit, the 
spiked on the river to extend his tournament life.
We didn't catch the actual hand, but we have been told that EPT7 Barcelona winner Kent Lundmark has been eliminated. From what we were told, Lundmark six-bet jammed with Ace-King only to be called by the pocket queens of Mads Amot. The ladies held and Lundmark's day came to an end.
Mark "dipthrong" Herm opened to 6,000 from the cutoff seat, Manuel Bevand called in the small blind, and Denys Larin three-bet to 17,400 from the big blind. Herm responded with a four-bet to 17,400, and after removing his sunglasses to examine Herm's four-bet, Bevand five-bet to 48,000.
Larin examined the remainder of his stack, grabbed all of his blue T5,000 chips, then thought better of it and folded.
The action was back on Herm, who asked Bevand, "You flat with something big?"
"Possibly," Bevand returned, grinning. "I know you have nothing."
There was a beat, and Bevand continued to needle Herm.
"Don't do it," he said looking at the clock. "There's still lots of time left."
Herm obliged, mucking his cards.
"Show the 
," he told Bevand.
"No, this is way too tricky to show," he responded. "That was a fun hand."
David Boyaciyan came 2nd here last season for a cool €535,000 and is still in with a chance of making back-to-back final tables after he doubled up his short stack.
Marc-Andre Ladouceur opened to 6,200 before the Dutchman moved all in for 61,400. John Taramas was sat behind and took his time before making the call. That was enough to isolate Boyaciyan.
Boyaciyan: 
Taramas:
The board ran 
to make Boyaciyan a set of tens.
button in Safari
