Georgios Zisimopoulos raised to 4,500 and picked up one caller before Pierre Neuville shoved his last 18,800. Zisimopoulos and the other player both called and they headed to a flop of . The two remaining active players checked before the Greek isolated on the turn to enforce a fold of the third player.
Neuville:
Zisimopoulos:
The river was already meaningless as Neuville got a full triple up with his set.
One hand later, Zisimopoulos opened to 5,000 and reluctantly called the three-bet shove of table neighbor Kyle Frey for 46,100.
Frey:
Zisimopoulos:
The board ran out and the disastrous start for the Greek saw him slide down to less than 20 big blinds.
We saw Chance Kornuth getting to his feet and Luuk Gieles raking in the chips. He said that Chance had bet a rainbow flop of for 4,500, the turn of for 8,500, and the on the river and Gieles looked him up on each street holding , eventually busting Kornuth, who held .
Timothy Adams raised to 5,000 and was called by three opponents including Zvi Stern. On the flop , the action was checked to Stern and he bet 7,800 which only Adams called. The turn then saw Adams check-raise from 16,800 to 44,000 and the November Niner came along to see the on the river.
Adams checked and Stern's bet of 46,000 won the pot without showdown.
Luis Rodriguez Cruz not only got halved but also lost the remainder of his stack to bust early on, he was soon followed by Emil Ekvardt and Darrell Goh.
Arne Coulier was just at risk in a three-way hand that saw Or Hadad, the Belgian and Daniel Dvoress in action. About 50,000 chips had been pulled into the pot and Hadad had folded. Coulier was all in for another 58,900 and Dvoress tanked, as he only had the Belgian covered by around 20,000.
Ultimately, Dvoress folded and Coulier showed him the . "Of course. I was so close to shoving nines," Hadad said.
A raising war saw Ariel Celestino commit 31,000 chips from the small blind before table neighbor Samuel Panzica on the button then shoved for 91,900 in total. Celestino asked the dealer to pull in his raising chips and eventually called off the 60,900 more.
Panzica:
Celestino:
The board ran out and the kicker ten scooped the double.
David Vamplew was spotted all in not long ago to steal the blinds and antes and one orbit later he defended his big blind against a raise by Mark Radoja. The former EPT Main Event champion then shoved his short stack on the turn and Radoja snap-called without asking for a count.
Vamplew had the for bottom pair and a flush draw while Radoja's had made a set of jacks. The river was of no help for the Scot and he headed to the rail.
Jean Paul Zaffran raised the small blind and Kevin Killeen then three-bet jammed for 41,200 with the . Zaffran called with the inferior but got some sweat on the flop . However, neither the turn nor the river changed anything and Killeen doubled.
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. The two remaining active players checked before the Greek isolated on the 
turn to enforce a fold of the third player.
river was already meaningless as Neuville got a full triple up with his set.
and the disastrous start for the Greek saw him slide down to less than 20 big blinds.
for 4,500, the turn of 
on the river and Gieles looked him up on each street holding 
.
, the action was checked to Stern and he bet 7,800 which only Adams called. The 
turn then saw Adams check-raise from 16,800 to 44,000 and the November Niner came along to see the 
on the river.
turn and Radoja snap-called without asking for a count.
for bottom pair and a flush draw while Radoja's 
river was of no help for the Scot and he headed to the rail.
. However, neither the 
turn nor the 
