The chips were all in preflop between Sergey Lebedev and Ali Reza Fatehi.
"I hope you have Ace-King," said Lebedev, as he turned over . Fatehi shook his head and showed .
The board ran out , and Fatehi was left with just 4,000 in chips.
A few hands later he got the rest in against Aidyn Auyezkanov and Francisco Benitez. Benitez bet the flop of which was enough to force the Kazakh out of the hand, and Benitez turned over . Fatehi was ahead with , but the came on the turn, giving Benitez a straight and the was irrelevant on the end.
After being crippled in a hand against Manuchehr Khangah, where the Azerbaijani rivered a set of tens on , Christoph Vogelsang was left with just 37,000 in chips. He moved all in a few hands later and Nick Petrangelo three-bet to force the aforementioned Khangah out of the hand.
The cards were turned over, with Vogelsang holding and Petrangelo . The board ran out with the rivered five enough for Vogelsang to scoop the pot and start the road to recovery
Chance Kornuth raised to 18,000 and Sam Greenwood called in the cutoff. Out of the small blind, Niall Farrell moved all in for more than 200,000 and Kornuth also announced all in with a very similar stack. Greenwood got out of the way and the cards were tabled.
Kornuth:
Farrell:
The board ran out and the pair of sevens held up for Farrell. "Do you have more than 200k?" Kornuth asked and the dealer counted 214,000 for Farrell. "Good game guys," Kornuth added and shipped his stack towards the middle of the table before leaving the tournament area.
Gerard Pique raised to 23,000 from the cutoff and action folded to Claas Segebrecht in the small blind, who announced all in. "About 230k," the German added and Pique counted his stack. After half a minute, the football star then said "I call" and flipped for his tournament life with around 200,000 chips.
Pique:
Segebrecht:
While the board ran out , Segebrecht looked away and didn't want to see the outcome until after the final community card was dealt.
Down to his last 22,000, Martin Kozlov shoved all in from under the gun. Steve O'Dwyer made a small reraise from middle position, getting the rest of the field out of the way.
Martin Kozlov:
Steve O'Dwyer:
The flop all but sealed it, and after the on the turn it was over for the Australian, who won a WSOP bracelet earlier this year.
Dominik Nitsche was talking to several of his countrymen one table over and seemed a little puzzled with what had just happened. We asked him for the details of his bust out hand and he was kind enough to share them.
The action folded to David Peters in the small blind and he limped in. Big blind Dominik Nitsche raised to 25,000 and was soon facing a raise to 75,000. Nitsche called in position.
The flop came and Peters bet out 50,000. Nitsche raised to 100,000 and Peters called. Peters checked on the turn and Nitsche shoved all in for 134,000. peters tanked for a bit before he called.
David Peters:
Dominik Nitsche:
Nitsche was in excellent position to double up, but the poker gods had other plans in mind; on the river. Nitsche made his exit, Peters stacked up to almost a million in chips.
Diego Ventura raised from under the gun and called the three-bet of Connor Drinan from one seat over for 45,000 to see a flop of . Both players checked. On the turn, Ventura bet 50,000 and Drinan called before the former checked and the latter bet the river for 80,000.
Ventura glanced over at the stack of his opponent and then check-raised all in to force a fold.
One hand later, Igor Kurganov raised to 18,000 from early position and Ventura three-bet to 60,000 in the big blind. Kurganov called and the duo saw the flop. Ventura continued for 55,000 and Kurganov called before the on the turn triggered the all in of Ventura. Kurganov gave it brief consideration and sent his cards into the muck.
Action folded to Mustapha Kanit and the Italian superstar limped in from the small blind. Adrian Mateos, like Kanit a Super High Roller regular, bumped it up to 28,000 from the big blind. Kanit made the call.
The flop came and Kanit checked. Mateos made a bet of 40,000 and Kanit answered with a check-raise to 135,000. Mateos shoved for 480,000 effective and Kanit made the call.
Mustapha Kanit:
Adrian Mateos:
The on the turn was certainly a good card for Kanit, but it wasn't enough as the river gave Mateos the bigger full house.
Kanit eliminated, Mateos up to 1.3 million in chips.