Jason Mercier first doubled his neighbor Daniel Dvoress in a blind battle and later lost his last chips to Tobias Reinkemeier when he shoved from the small blind with into Reinkemeier's . The board ran out and the tournament was down to 24 players. Time for a redraw!
Liv Boeree shoved all in for (we believe was) 153,000 from the hijack and Luuk Gieles followed her example by shoving for 187,000 from the cutoff. Ole Schemion shoved all in from the button for 113,000 more and both blinds released.
Liv Boeree:
Luuk Gieles:
Ole Schemion:
The board ran out and Liv Boeree hit the rail while Gieles almost tripled.
Benjamin Pollak shoved all in from early position for 98,000 with and got reshoved on by Kitson Kho with . The board ran out and Pollak made his exit.
Not much later Kho made it 20,000 to go and Adrian Mateos three bet to 50,000 in position. Kho made the call and shoved all in on . Mateos made the call with but was up against Kho's . The on the turn and on the river didn't improve Mateos enough and Kho doubled.
The action folded to Rainer Kempe in the small blind and he moved all in after some deliberation to put Jyri Merivirta at risk. Merivirta looked at his cards and called all in for 80,000 and the showdown went as follows.
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Ole Schemion was the preflop raiser under the gun and Luuk Gieles in the big blind had called. On the flop Gieles checked. Schemion bet 20,000 and Gieles moved in for 100,000. Schemion instantly called.
Luuk Gieles:
Ole Schemion:
"I like your hand better" Gieles said with a smile.
"What about now?" asked Schemion after the had hit the turn.
"Now I like my hand better" Gieles replied with a smile after the had already hit the river. Double up for the dutch man.
Igor Kurganov was standing on the rail talking to Liv Boeree, and told us about his bust out hand. He shoved under the gun for 85,000 with and Vladimir Troyanovskiy in the big blind made the call holding . The board ran out and Kurganov made his exit.
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into Reinkemeier's 
. The board ran out 
and the tournament was down to 24 players. Time for a redraw!
and got reshoved on by Kitson Kho with 
. The board ran out 
and Pollak made his exit.
. Mateos made the call with 
. The 
on the turn and 
and Merivirta doubled up.
. The board ran out 
