Ariel Mantel opened under the gun plus two to 12,500. A couple positions down, Martin Finger in the cutoff made it 27,500. The button and both blinds folded but Mantel pushed all in. Finger called immediately, putting himself at risk as Mantel had 16,500 more than him.
Finger tabled and needed to hit against Mantel's . The board never gave Finger anything but low cards.
No hit for Finger who exited the tournament in 23rd place for €17,250. All other players are now guaranteed €18,950.
With play ion the Main Event wrapped up in less than four hours today, time in the high roller event seems to stand still in comparison, as the PokerStars Blog reports.
Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier moved all in from the button and was called by Olivier Busquet. Grospellier was at risk had the pair against the of Busquet. The board ran out , Busquet hitting to send Grospellier out of the tournament.
Georgios Karakousis was all in for 97,000 with and in terrible shape against Joao Viera's . It didn't get any better for him as he was drawing dead by the river of a board.
Joao Vieira showed just how powerful stack size and position are in a recent pot that he took down.
He opened to 12,000 on the button, Emil Ohlsson three-bet to 29,000 from the small blind only for Ivan Soshnikov to four-bet to 62,000 from the big blind. Back on Vieira he asked for a look at Soshnikov's stack - the Russian had 230,000 back - and then slid out a five-bet of 108,000 total.
The Russian went into the tank, indeed Vieira had enough and called the clock, the tournament director got all the way down to two seconds before Soshnikov mucked his hand.
Players are now on their 75-minute dinner break. When they return they will either play five more levels or down to the final table of eight, whichever may come first.
Dimitar Danchev opened under the gun plus one with a min-raise to 16,000. Action folded to Kent Kundmark in the big blind. He checked his cards and didn't really seem to have that big of a decision. He pushed his short stack to the middle and as soon as Danchev found out how much more to him it was, he called.
It was a coin flip situation with Lundmark holding and for Danchev. The ace jack gained some additional outs on the turn but other than that, not really any excitement on the board: .
Danchev added some chips to his stack, Lundmark another cash to his palmarès.
A monstrous pot just went down between Bryn Kenney and Dimitar Danchev and I'm pretty sure it's going to stick in Danchev's mind for a while.
Kenney opened to 20,000 from middle position, Danchev three-bet to 53,000 from the small blind, back on Kenney he four-bet to 95,000, Danchev then five-bet to 183,000, Kenney six-bet all-in for 395,000 and Danchev snap called.
Kenney:
Danchev:
The flop gave Kenney a gutshot straight draw and a backdoor flush draw. The turn left him drawing to just four outs and he duly pinged one on the river. Nobody at the table made a sound throughout the entire hand as they'd no dobut seen in a thousand times before.
After that hand Kenney is up to 800,000 whilst Danchev slips to 210,000.
Max Heinzelmann opened the button to 20,000 and got a call from Bryn Kenney in the big blind. on the flop and Bryn check called a 23,000 continuation bet from his German opponent.
Both players continued to check the on the turn and thus it was time for a free river: . Kenney bet out 122,000 and got an almost instant call from Heinzelmann.
Kenney tabled his for a turned two pair and Heinzelmann mucked.
and needed to hit against Mantel's 
. The 
board never gave Finger anything but low cards.
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of Busquet. The board ran out 
, Busquet hitting to send Grospellier out of the tournament.
and in terrible shape against Joao Viera's 
. It didn't get any better for him as he was drawing dead by the river of a 
board.
for Danchev. The ace jack gained some additional outs on the turn but other than that, not really any excitement on the board: 
flop gave Kenney a gutshot straight draw and a backdoor flush draw. The 
turn left him drawing to just four outs and he duly pinged one on the 
on the turn and thus it was time for a free river: 
for a turned two pair and Heinzelmann mucked.