Steve O'Dwyer opened to 7,200 in the hijack, and Joao Barbosa made it 23,000 to go in the small blind. O'Dwyer called, and Barbosa checked the that flopped. O'Dwyer bet 15,000, and Barbosa immediately pushed everything in. O'Dwyer asked for a count, and it was 117,400. He tanked for a few minutes.
"I don't really believe you," he said with a smile. Ultimately, he did fold.
Up on the feature table, Ludovic Geilich was betting a flop of and got called by chip leader Ole Schemion and Jose Carlos Garcia. On the turn card, Schemion chose to bet out, placing 25,500 into the pot. Geilich folded and Garcia made the call.
On the river card, the , Schemion bet 69000 into a pot of around 118,000 and got called by Garcia. Schemion showed for a turned flush to add more chips to his already huge chipstack.
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In one of the first hands after the break, Italian prodigy Giuliano Bendinelli met his Waterloo. Bendinelli, who won the Monaco Cup for €100,000 here two years ago, open shoved his last 16 big blinds to the middle with off suit from the hijack.
The player in the small blind had just three big blinds or so more, and moved in over the top with kings. The board came no higher than a and Bendinelli was headed for the exit.
Giuliano Bendinelli wasn't the only player getting knocked out, the following players have also been eliminated. Just 97 players remain, 18 to the money.
Yevgeniy Chulak three-bet and got four-bet by Jose Carlos Garcia. The bet was to 100,000, which covered Chulak's stack of just shy of 70,000.
Chulak:
Garcia:
Chulak had two live cards, and after the flop of , he had 14 outs to double up and stay alive. But he bricked both the turn and the river and busted 13 short of the money here on Day 3.