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.
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.
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."
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.
Sylvain Loosli raised to 7,000 and Vladimir Troyanovskiy called before the action reached Ilari Sahamies. He moved all in for 99,300 in total and the action then folded around to Mikita Badziakouski. The Belorussian shoved for slightly more and that got folds from Loosli and Troyanovskiy.
Sahamies:
Badziakouski:
The board ran out and the €10,000 Single-Day High Roller runner-up joined the rail.
Hossein Ensan had previously lost with kings to the pocket tens of Senh Ung and then jammed with pocket sevens. His opponent also had sevens and they split the pot.
Soon after, the EPT11 Barcelona third place finisher then got his stack in with and Niko Soininen in one seat over put him at risk with the . The flop brought a flush draw for the Finn, but Ensan survived thanks to the turn and river.
According to Dietrich Fast, fellow German Ole Schemion three-bet shoved out of the small blind for his last approximately 70,000 chips. Dobrovolskiy called with pocket nines and Schemion only had pocket threes to join the rail after an event less and dry board. Alexander Rocha experienced the same fate and has also run out of chips.
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Bryn Kenney is turning in another swingy day now peaking at 370,000 to book a spot among the current leaders.
The latest chips added to his stack came courtesy of Dominik Nitsche, who limped the small blind into his big blind. The flop came and Kenney quickly called when Nitsche led for 4,000.
Nitsche checked the turn and Kenny pounced on the opportunity, leading out for 7,600 and forcing a fold.