Jorma Nuutinen is back in the hunt after he was all in holding against Victor Ilyukhin (sr). The latter was holding but the board was was Finn-friendly coming .
Jon Spinks just managed a huge double up against Finnish GPI Player of the Year Joni Jouhkimainen, Spinks held to Jouhkimainen's and was lucky enough to find a tenless board for a pot that puts the Englishman among the chip leaders.
A short-stacked Mikolaj Zawadzki was all in with , taking a shot against Ondrej Vinklarek's button raise but the Czech player held . The board came and Zawadzki was eliminated.
Ayaz Manji was all in with but found himself needing to hit against Davidi Kitai's . It was the Belgian who hit though, knocking out his Portuguese opponent on an [Ah3h89h9s] board.
Nikolay Losev opened for 7,200, Albert Daher made it 17,000. Losev took a while and made it 37,200 and Daher five-bet shoved. Losev made the call with and wouldn’t you know it Daher had . The cards ran out and all the excitement was over.
Game over for Jose Carlos Garcia, he moved all in from the cutoff with and PCA Champion Dominik Panka moved all in behind him holding . The looked fairly academic but the turn gave Garcia a huge number of outs, but none could hit on the river.
Shayam Srinivasan and Gregoire Boissenot have also been knocked out.
The board on the river read and Toby Lewis shoved. He was immediately called by Kent Lundmark who tabled for the straight and Lewis’s cards were in the muck, all his chips heading to Lundmark.
Dmitry Yurasov got it all in with against the of Michel Dattani. Yurasov stood up, not really liking it. The cards ran out . Making both players a straight on the end and Yurasov sat back down. “Everyone loves a chopped pot.” Said a player at the table. “Well…not everyone.”
We just caught the chips being shovelled to Jose Carlos Garcia who had doubled up with against Emil Mattson’s . All in preflop the board ran out . Garcia doubled up.
Sergio Aido opened for 7,000, Marton Czuczor made the call and Ayaz Manji made up the difference in the big blind. Czuczor wanted to know how much Manji had behind which was 20,000. All three players checked the streets down and the board read . Mani flipped over for a river pair and it was good.