On a flop of Adrian Mateos got his chips in from the big blind with . Stipo Vladic in early position was the one calling with . Mateos got it in good but was instantly drawing dead after the hit the turn. The completed the board and Mateos made his exit.
Michael Telker just raised to 6,500 from the hijack and Craig McCorkell three-bet from the small blind to 14,500. Telker moved all in and McCorkell quickly called.
McCorkell:
Telker:
The board ran out and quickly the pot was pushed to McCorkell.
As we approached the table Palumbo was already getting his stack counted by the dealer, at that point guaranteed to get it back times two. He told us afterwards what had happened.
Palumbo raised before the flop with and got two calls, one of 'em being Pavel Binar from the small blind. The flop came and Binar checked. Palumbo made a continuation bet of 8,500 and got a call before Binar check raised to 32,000. Just Palumbo made the call. The fell on the turn and Binar bet more than half Palumbo's remaining stack. The two got all of their chips in eventually and Palumbo was shown for a lower trips. The on the river didn't change a thing about that and Palumbo scored a full double.
The payouts have been announced and the 315 entries have created a prize pool of €3,150,000, and 47 places will get paid. The winner of this event takes home just shy of €600,000 and as of right now 120 players are still remaining. The money will be reached later today, but the final table seems to be out of reach for now.
Gleb Kovtunov, who bubbled the €25,000 Single-Day High Roller last week, doubled for the second time today.
Carlos Chadha opened the cutoff for 5,000 and small blind Kovtunov shoved all in for 33,000. Big blind Joao Vieira assessed the situation and looked him up, Chadha folded.