Kuljinder Sidhu moved all in for his last 23,400 chips and Senh Ung called in the small blind, so did Emil Ekvardt in the big blind. They checked down the board 
and Ung announced ace-high before flipping over 
. Ekvardt had that beat with 
and Sidhu joined the rail with 
.
Govert Metaal is also not in the High Roller tournament anymore either.
Juah Helppi fired 21,000 out of the big blind on the turn 
and Martin Finger immediately shot out of his chair. "So sick," the German said and then asked to see the stack of his opponent. Finger eventually folded and while Helppi raked in the pot, he took off his glasses and smiled over: "Maybe one day you will win a hand."
Jason Wheeler just picked up a little breathing room in his effort to make a third High Roller final table in a row here at EPT Malta.
Wheeler got all of Craig Varnell's relatively short stack, getting him all in preflop with 
versus Varnell's 
and avoiding disaster on a board of bricks.
Byron Kaverman raised from the button and called the shove of short stack Huidong Gu out of the big blind with . Gu was ahead preflop with the , but the devastating flop 
left him drawing dead already. Gu nodded and then took his belongings while the dealer burned and turned the and as last two community cards.
Andrew Chen raised from early position and was called two ways, by Emil Ekvardt on the button and Jussin Nevanlinna in the big blind. On the turn of a 
board, Chen jammed with for top two pair only for Ekvardt to look him up with a set of nines. The remaining kings and queens in the deck didn't come to the rescue of Chen and he headed to the rail.
Three healthy looking stacks sat behind each of Juha Helppi, Sylvain Loosli and Martin finger as they tangled in a pot moments ago.
On a 
board to the turn, Helppi bet 37,000 into the 70,000-chip pot and Loosli called.
Finger folded, and Helppi joined Loosli in checking the 
river. Loosli showed 
and Helppi mucked, giving Loosli the biggest stack of the three going forward.
Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier has spent a rather quiet day at the tables so far and lost a bunch of chips compared to what he started with while Elliot Smith has ran out of chips. On Mercier's table, Bryn Kenney is dominating most of the action and just raised to 7,000 from under the gun.
Raoul Refos was the sole caller from one seat over and they headed to the flop 
. Kenney continued for 11,000 and was called before firing the 
turn for 17,000. Again Refos called and the 
river completed the flush draw of the flop. Kenney jammed and the Dutchman eventually tossed his cards in the muck.
[Removed:17] defended his small blind against Joao Vieira and eventually gave up on the river of a 
board after checking and then facing a bet worth 15,200 by Vieira.
Andrew Chen took a different line and just shoved into a 6,000-raise by Jussi Nevanlinna to scoop the pot and several other well known pros will be forced to do the same soon, too.
Iacopo Brandi raised to 6,000 and Stephen Chidwick jammed for 66,600 from the button, enforcing folds all around to claim the pot. The EPT regular is still short but it's just over once the last chip is gone.
Joao Vieira pushed for his last 16,200 from the cutoff and Joni Jouhkimainen moved all in from the button for far more. The action folded to Huidong Gu in the big blind and he called the two all ins with the biggest stack.
Vieira: 
Jouhkimainen:
Gu: 
The board ran out 
to give Vieira a triple up and Jouhkimainen doubled up his additional 61,500 chips through Gu.
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