Mukul Pahuja raised to 26,000 from under the gun and Igor Yaroshevskyy flat-called from the button, the players in the blinds folded. On the flop , Pahuja continued for 22,000 and then quickly folded once Yaroshevskyy had raised to 53,000.
Since switching to the last three tables, Ezequiel Kleinman has been increasing his stack significantly and then three-bet an open raise of Dominik Nitsche. The German grabbed his stack of T-5,000 chips and moved all in to enforce an immediate fold of his opponent.
Kevin MacPhee moved all in for 125,000 chips and the last 10 big blinds found no caller.
Over on table three, Byron Kaverman raised to 30,000 and chip leader Vladimir Dobrovolskiy three-bet to 77,000. Kaverman gave it a quick thought and folded, the Russian showed him the . Nevertheless, Kaverman has benefited a lot from the bubble period and moved into the top three overall counts.
Martin Finger opened to 25,000 and was called by Ezequiel Kleinman on the button, Igor Yaroshevskyy in the small blind and Mikita Badziakouski in the big blind. The flop is checked to Kleinman and the Argentinian bet 29,000. Yaroshevskyy and Badziakouski both called before Finger check-raised to 80,000.
Kleinman and Yaroshevskyy now quickly folded, Badziakouski needed some more consideration but made the same decision. Finger showed the with a sheepish grin on the face.
Tournament staff just informed the players that this is the final level for tonight. Furthermore, since another redraw will take place with 16 players remaining, there won't be any additional redraw overnight in case very few more players are sent to the rail tonight still.
Patrick Uzan raised to 25,000 from under the gun and [Removed:17] called, Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier defended his big blind. On the flop , all three players checked. On the turn, ElkY check-folded to a bet worth 47,000 by Uzan while Yan called. The fell on the river and Uzan bet more than 80,000 for half his remaining stack to enforce a quick fold from Yan.
Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier moved all in for 69,000 from the cutoff and Patrick Uzan reshoved from one seat over on the button. In the big blind, [Removed:17] asked for a count and Uzan was asked to push forward one of his stacks for verification. The dealer was not done with that yet and Yan had already said "ok, ok, I see," and made the call with the biggest stack of the trio.
Grospellier:
Uzan:
Yan:
The flop fell and Uzan's top set took an even bigger lead. The turn and river bricked and the PokerStars Team Pro departed in 21st place while Yan's stack plummeted.
In a battle of the blinds with some 50,000 already in the pot and the board reading , Mikita Badziakouski checked to Vladimir Troyanovskiy.
Troyanovskiy bet 38,000, Badziakouski made it 108,000 with the check raise, and Troyanovskiy shipped it in for the 410,000 he had behind.
Suddenly there was close to one million chips in the pot and not a made hand among them, as Badziakouski made the call with , holding a bigger open-ended straight draw than Troyanovskiy and his .
The turn came the making Badziakouski's straight and while the river gave Troyanovskiy a straight as well, he walked away from the table cursing something in Russian on the way to collecting 20th-place money.
Mikita Badziakouski raised from the button and then called the three-bet of Mukul Pahuja from the small blind for 88,000. On the flop , Pahuja continued for 105,000 and was called before checking the on the turn. Badziakouski fired 80,000 and was called before both players checked down the river.
Pahuja flipped over and Badziakouski tapped the table in defeat.
19 players are bagging up chips and Martin Finger won the last notable hand on his table. Igor Yaroshevskyy had defended his big blind against the raise of the German and also called a small continuation bet before the board read . Yaroshevskyy checked and Finger bet 63,000 for just more than half the pot.
Yaroshevskyy took his time before making the call and then shook his head when Finger flipped over his for a rivered pair of queens.