It was unclear how the chips went in, but David Sierra Merino was all in and at risk preflop for 132,500 from the button with ![]()
and Thomas Lefort in early position had the ![]()
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and Merino doubled.
It was unclear how the chips went in, but David Sierra Merino was all in and at risk preflop for 132,500 from the button with ![]()
and Thomas Lefort in early position had the ![]()
. The board came ![]()
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and Merino doubled.
Yang Zhang opened from the hijack and then called the shove of a short-stacked Vlado Banicevic, who had only about 30,000.
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The board ran out dead for both and the ace-high stood.
At a neighboring table, Yosuke Sekiya lost his remaining chips.
Two short stacks clashed in Renjun Yang from under the gun and Patrick Leonard on the button. Leonard had around 45,000 and was at risk with ![]()
, while Yang had the ![]()
with the dominating kicker.
The board came ![]()
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and the kicker played to eliminate Leonard.
Marton Czuczor led out for 64,000 in a battle of the blinds with Thomas Muehloecker on fourth street. The ![]()
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was on the felt, and Muehloecker called after some consideration. On the
river, Czuczor shoved all in for 125,500. Muehloecker asked if Czuczor would show one if he folded. Czuczor said nothing and the Austrian did eventually fold.
The other players desperately tried to get Czuczor to show a bluff, and he eventually allowed them to flip one card:
. Everyone concluded it was surely a bluff.
"You're a very brave man, doing this against Tom," Matas Cimbolas said.
After a four-bet pot preflop between Ramin Hajiyev and Sergei Petrushevskii that saw both players invest 80,000, the flop came ![]()
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and Petrushevskii quickly shoved.
"I was hoping for ace or king on the flop to make it an easy fold," Hajiyev said, then let go.
His opponent asked "you folded jacks?" before flashing his ![]()
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On a neighboring table, Piotr Franczak shoved for around 75,000 from the cutoff with the ![]()
and Richard Toth called in the big blind for slightly less with ![]()
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gave Franczak the nut flush, making both the
turn and
river meaningless.
A pot of just over 100,000 emerged on the feature table with the turn showing ![]()
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and Friedrich Meyer shoved for 95,000. Martin Kabrhel called and Meyer was in bad shape.
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The magic
on the river let Meyer jump out of the chair and take a quick walk to the rail before returning to stack his chips after the big double up.
Laszlo Bujtas moved all in for his last 46,000 and the action folded all the way around to Scott Margereson, who quickly called.
Bujtas had the ![]()
and Margereson took the flip with ![]()
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flop improved Bujtas, but the
turn left the Hungarian drawing dead. A meaningless
on the river was just a formality and Bujtas headed to the rail.
In the cutoff, Stefan Fabian, one of the bubble double players from the end of Day 2, opened to 12,000 from the cutoff. Andrea Rocci shoved from one seat over for what looked like 100,000 and the action folded back to Fabian. He didn't even ask for a count, but called instantly.
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The board ran out ![]()
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and Rocci was eliminated.
Benjamin Philipps opened for a raise under the gun and got three-bet to 31,000 by the cutoff. Philipps jammed in return and his opponent tanked awhile before putting the 98,500 in.
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rolled off the deck.
Sebanien Garrosi jammed on the button for 39,000 and Salvatore Bonavena put him at risk in the big blind.
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flop contained the deuce Garrosi was dreading and he found no salvation on the last two streets.