From middle position, Mikita Badziakouski made it 25,000 to go. Mustapha Kanit right next to him was the only caller.
Post flop it would be all Kanit though. Badziakouski checked on , and called the 28,000 bet that followed from his Italian neighbor. Badziakouski checked again on the turn, and called the 78,000 bet Kanit made.
The completed the board and Badziakouski checked for the third consecutive time. Kanit glanced at his own stack, cut out the green 25,000-chips, and eventually moved forward a whopping 435,000.
Badziakouski let out a wry smile, thought about it for a minute or two, and eventually folded.
Kanit let Juanda pick a card, but he let Badziakouski do the honors. Badziakouski turned over the and Kanit raked in the pot with a big mysterious smile on his face.
Not much has been happening at the tables apart from some small pots and some all in shoves that didn't result in any showdown.
Dario Sammartino shoved into the big blind of John Juanda and the latter folded with 25 big blinds behind. Sammartino himself faced the shove of Max Silver on his big blind and the Brit on the small blind to give up the pot.
Sean Winter raised to 23,000, Ivan Luca three-bet to 60,000 from the button and then snap-folded to the four-bet shove of Winter.
A battle of the blinds saw a small pot emerge with a board reading . Mikita Badziakouski bet 32,000 from the small blind and Mustapha Kanit thought a bit before making the call. Badziakouski showed for a bluff and Kanit scooped the pot with for queen high!
The Italian is above one million while the table features two other players just below that.
Sean Winter defended his big blind to a raise of Erik Seidel. Picking up the action on the turn, Winter checked and Seidel bet 40,000. After some consideration and a raised eyebrow, Winter called and checked again the river. Seidel now made it 62,000 to go and was eventually paid off to reveal for trips queens to claim the pot.
John Juanda raised to 22,000 from the cutoff and Dario Sammartino shoved for 197,000 to claim the pot without showdown.
Timothy Adams did the very same on another table shortly after and it was Sergey Lebedev who forfeited his initial raise of 22,000 chips.
On the heads-up flop of , Christoph Vogelsang checked in the big blind and Daniel Dvoress bet 22,000 from the button. The German called and both players then proceeded to check down the turn and river. Vogelsang flipped over and that won the pot.
Fedor Holz, who satellited in this event last night after making fourth in the €10,000 high roller, has now gone broke.
He opened big slick, Christoph Vogelsang three-bet aces and Holz four-bet stuffed. Vogelsang made the easy call and held on a board of bricks to send the German wunderkind back to the drawing board.
From middle position, Paul Newey raised to 21,000. Action folded to Max Silver in the small blind and the chipleader three bet to 58,000. Sammartino released from the big blind but Newey shoved all in for 273,000. Silver was quick to call.
Paul Newey:
Max Silver:
The flop came . The on the turn had Newey already getting ready to make his exit, but he abandoned plans of getting up when he realized he still had some outs.
Wouldn't you know it; on the river! Straight for Newey, small hit to his stack for Silver.