Three players had reached the river of a board reading 
. Jean Tepper was in the small blind, Toby Lewis in the big blind and Artem Litvinov in late position. Lewis checked and Litvinov checked saying “Keep it nice and friendly.” Tepper replied “I can’t check.” And bet 3,000. Lewis protested that he can’t bet as the other two payers in the hand had checked and he could be angle shooting. Tepper insisted he hadn’t checked and indeed no one would say that he had including the dealer. The floor was called and even though the floor agreed that he hadn’t checked it was ruled that because there was two lots of action behind he couldn’t bet. Tepper argued for a bit but in the end he took back the bet with good grace. Litvinov had 
but Lewis was ahead with 
. Tepper mucked his hand. Litvinov insisted he had saved himself 3,000 either way because Lewis would have had to fold and he would have snapped him of with his hand.
flop. ElkY bet 2,700 and the Spaniard made the call to see the 
on the turn where both players checked.
and ElkY fired a bet of 8,800 - Aido quickly folded.
face up.
Konstantin Puchkov checked it over to Julian Thomas. They had been involved in a number of pots and Puchkov always seemed to get the better of the German. It didn’t look as if there had been a whole lot of action down the streets and now Thomas made a small bet of 1,500. Thomas turned over 
but it was no good as Puchkov had 
for two pair. “Why the ace?” Said a frustrated Thomas. Zimnan Ziyard said, “You’re very brave to open the that river against him.” No one disagreed.
against the 
of Ziyard. The board ran out 
and Ziyard doubled up. “Nice hand.” Sighed a disappointed Hajiyev.
where Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier had bet 6,300. Lauri Pesonen raised and when ElkY shoved Pesonen made the call. Elky had flopped top set 
and Pesonen was flushing with 
and Soulier was eliminated.
