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Nikolay Losev and Davidi Kitai seem determined to battle it out in these early stages of the bubble.
Losev opened for 13,000 and from the cut-off Kitai three bet him to 33,000. The blinds folded and the two players saw a flop of . Losev checked and Kitai be 24,000 which Losev called. They saw a turn card which both players checked and then on the river card Losev checked his cards and bet 20,000. Kitai pushed out a tower of T5000 chips for a bet of 100,000. Losev threw his hand away.
A few hands later Kitai, who has been slightly the most active player at the table, opened for 13,000 under-the-gun and Losev defended from the big blind. The saw a flop of . Losev checked and when Kitai bet 16,000 he check raised him to 40,000. Now it was Kitai who threw his hand away.
Davidi Kitai opened to 14,000 preflop from early position and Martin Schleich made it 31,000 behind him. KItai called to see a flop which both players checked.
Kitai fired a minimum bet of 6,000 on the turn and Schleich called with a wry smile on his face. The same pattern occurred on the river. Kitai showed - it was good.
As he has been doing quite frequently, Davidi Kitai opened for 13,000 and this time Martin Schleich defended from the big blind. The flop was . Schleich checked and called a bet of 15,000 from Kitai. The turn card was the and now Schleich check called a bet of 28,000. The river card was the . Once more Schleich checked and again Kitai continued betting, now for 22,000. Schleich slid out a tower of chips for a check raise to 106,000. Kitai whipped off his sunglasses in surprise and studied his opponent. Perhaps a minute passed before he decided to make the call. Schleich revealed his nut flush hand and won the pot.
Under the gun Martin Schleich opened with a min raise to 16,000. Right next to him sat Rasmus Agerskov who was getting shorter and shorter. He shoved all in for his last 57,000 and after all other players folded, action was back on EPT Barcelona winner Schleich.
Schleich made the call and turned over . Agerskov had the perfect hand to take ace-nine to battle; .
The flop gave Schleich some outs but the on the turn and on the river both missed him.
We've just had the first showdown at the feature table for quite some time and PCA10 champion Dominik Panka was the one stacking the chips.
Pre-flop Panka raised to 16,000 from the hijack and Jon Spinks defended from the small blind. Both players checked the flop, the fell on the turn, Spinks bet 23,000 and Panka smooth called. The completed the board, both players checked with Panka showing to win the pot, whilst Spinks had .
Dominik Panka opened for 16,000 and then called a 128,000 shove from Ramin Hajiyev. Panka had against the at risk Hajiyev who had . The board ran out and Hajiyev doubled up.
Albert Daher has gone from being at risk of elimination to one of the chip leaders in short order.
He opened to 16,000 from under-the-gun+1 and Davidi Kitai flat called on the button. Daher then fired three barrels on the board, Kitai called bets of 16,000, 30,000 and 87,000 respectively but mucked when Daher showed . After that hand Daher is up 650,000 whilst Kitai is down to 575,000