Nicholas Petrangelo opened to 16,000 preflop before Mark Teltscher made it 43,000 on the button. The small blind cold-called but Simon Deadman moved all in for 178,000.
Petrangelo quickly folded but Teltscher took a minute before making the call, the small blind quickly folded.
Deadman: 
Teltscher: 
The board came 
and Teltscher won a big pot to eliminate his compatriot.
Sebastian Von Toperczer faced off against Marcello Marigliano on a flop of 
. Marigliano check-called a bet from Von Toperczer and they went to the turn card 
. Marigliano moved all in and, after a brief think, Von Toperczer made the call.
Marigliano had the nut flush draw 
hand against the 
middle pair of Von Toperczer.
It was Marigliano who was at risk and the river was no good for him.
The man who had eliminated Phil Ivey from the tournament was now out himself, but Marigliano was walking away with €21,800 for a 56th place finish.
The first hand after the break would be the last of Nick Maimone in the EPT Season 10 Grand Final. He got his last 12,000 in with 
against Igor Kurganov's 
. The 
board didn't help anyone and Maimone had to leave the tournament area.
With 96 players left and only 95 in the money, someone had to be the hero. Online regular Kenny 'Lonehixx' Hicks, who started the day below average has chipped up nicely and has done the remaining players a favor by knocking out the final unpaid player. He also discusses the remaining field- many of which are online friends who share a lot of history playing on PokerStars.
Level: 19
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 1,000
Just before the last minute ticked off the clock in Level 18, three more players hit the rail in Carlos Mejia and JC Alvarado.
In regards to the former, he moved all in from the small blind for roughly 40,000 holding the 
and Conor Shelly defended the big blind with the 
. The 
flop paired Shelly, which meant Mejia's best chance of winning was a ten for Broadway. The 
turn wasn't it, and neither was the 
river. With that, Mejia exited the tournament.
As for Alvarado, a preflop raising war saw him get his stack of 235,000 all in as a dominant favorite against Idris Ambraisse.
Alvarado: 
Ambraisse: 
Unfortunately for Alvarado, he'd get extremely unlucky as the board ran out 
.
Meanwhile, Marc Daubach was eliminated by Dani Stern at another table in unknown action.
In EPT side event news, a €5,000 No-Limit Hold'em tournament began yesterday with 187 players, but now just 16 remain in contention for the €200,900 first-place prize. The current chip leader in that tournament is Georgios Karakousis, who you may recall was runner-up at EPT London in October for £349,200. Also still in the running is Canadian World Series of Poker bracelet winner Max Greenwood with 357,000; Full Tilt Poker Ambassador Dermot Blain with 310,000; and Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree and French singer and actor Patrick Bruel.
Here's a look at the final 16:
| Rank | Player | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Georgios Karakousis | Greece | 538,000 |
| 2 | Max Greenwood | Canada | 357,000 |
| 3 | Dermot Blain* | Ireland | 310,000 |
| 4 | David Vamplew | United Kingdom | 235,000 |
| 5 | Carlos Chadha | Canada | 210,000 |
| 6 | Mike McDonald | Canada | 195,000 |
| 7 | Artem Litvinov | Russian Federation | 155,500 |
| 8 | Patrick Bruel | France | 142,000 |
| 9 | Alexander Shelukhin | Russian Federation | 117,500 |
| 10 | Liv Boeree** | United Kingdom | 114,000 |
| 11 | Ariel Adda | United Kingdom | 92,500 |
| 12 | Oleh Okhotskyi | Ukraine | 87,500 |
| 13 | Thomas Muhlocker | Austria | 81,000 |
| 14 | Yves Boschetti | Switzerland | 80,000 |
| 15 | Alexander Dovzhenko | Russian Federation | 65,000 |
| 16 | Aslan Daurov | Russian Federation | 48,000 |
*Denotes Full Tilt Poker Ambassador
**Denotes Team PokerStars Pro
Players are on their final 20-minute break of the day.
Just before the break there was an All in and a call on another table as the 
of Mark Teltscher faced off against the 
of Nick Maimone. Another player said they had folded an nine so it was looking grim for Teltscher who was the player at risk.
The board ran out 
and with all the nines accounted for it was Telscher who doubled and Maimone who was left with under one big blind to come back to after the break.
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