Martin Kabrhel is up a lot from the starting stack but he just had to lay one down against Bruno Lopes. The board read and Kabrhel called a 3,325-chip bet from his opponent.
On the river the hit and Lopes bet 10,000 with 15,000 left behind. Kabrhel went into the tank for a while and started talking to himself.
"I flopped it," Kabrhel said. "Baby flush."
"It's not a slowrol," Kabrhel said as he tanked for a minute longer before folding his hand.
"Big flush," Lopes said as he raked in the pot that put him back up to 45,000 chips.
Benny Spindler is making better use of his second bullet after winning a three-way hand to rise to 70,000 in chips.
A flop appeared and Mizzi bet 2,600 from the cut-off. Kai Vater called from the button before Spindler min check-raised to 5,200 from the hijack. That was enough to scare off Mizzi but not Vater who called.
Not more chips left their home as the turn and river were checked down. Spindler opened and it was good as his opponent mucked.
The action folded around to Paolo Compagno on the button and he raised to 800. Smith peeled from the big blind and both players checked the flop. From there Smith led for 1,700 and 5,100 on the turn and river.
Campagno called the first bet but relinquished his hand to the river bet.
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Frederik Jensen was left with just a few thousand chips after a three-way pot and a bog shove.
After the flop dropped as the Dane led for 6,300 from the big blind and was called by both Jason Lavallee (hijack) and Gautam Sabharwal (small blind).
The turn came and Sabharwal open-shoved for 38,625. Jensen sat there for a few minutes trying to figure it all out before he called. Lavallee folded saying he had queens.
Sabharwal opened for the nut flush, way ahead of Jensen's . A harmless came on the river and the Indian fist-pumped and dragged in the big pot.
The board read when Phahurat called a hefty unknown bet from Seiver who immediately turned over for a full house. Phahurat showed his and said he was afraid Seiver might have quads. Seiver was pretty shaken up about it and knocked down to just 12,000 chips.
"At least you can rebuy," Phahurat needled as the other players at the table were shocked he didn't go all in.
"I'm so bad," Phahurat added as he's now the chip leader of the tournament.