The five remaining players are on a 15-minute break.
The five remaining players are on a 15-minute break.
The biggest pot of the tournament resulted in an old-fashioned chop when Raed Alawadhi and Alexander Ivarsson got it in on an ![]()
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board. Alawadhi had check-raised the turn from 1,100,000 to 4,000,000 and shoved the river all in for 2,500,000.
The snap-call followed and the pair chopped it up with Alawadhi's ![]()
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Sorin Flutur raised to 500,000 from under the gun, Alexander Ivarsson called on the button and Read Alawadhi called from the big blind. The flop was ![]()
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and Flutur bet 600,000, Ivarsson called and Alawadhi folded.
Flutur bet 1,100,000 on the
turn and Ivarsson stuck around. On the
river, Flutur emptied the clip with a bet of 2,850,000 and Ivarsson called him off after about twenty seconds.
Flutur tabled ![]()
for just a pair of sixes and Ivarsson had him crushed with ![]()
to greatly extend his chip lead.
Photos by René Velli / PokerStars.
Level: 33
Blinds: 125,000/250,000
Ante: 250,000
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turn, after the flop had gone check/check, Raed Alawadhi bet 900,000 in the big blind and Alexander Ivarsson called on the button.
The river was the
and Alawadhi shipped it in for 3,615,000 without hesitation. Ivarsson instantly waved the white flag.
Anthony Zinno raised to 450,000 from the hijack, Sorin Flutur called from the cutoff, Alexander Ivarsson called from the small blind and Ari Engel called from the big blind.
The flop came ![]()
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and Ivarsson and Engel checked. Zinno shoved all in for 3,355,000 and Flutur folded directly. Ivarsson gave Zinno a long staredown before shoving all in himself for 4,955,000.
Unfazed by the earlier action, Engel snap-called around 4,600,000 total all in to create a gigantic three-way all-in situation with a third of all the chips in play in the middle.
Anthony Zinno: ![]()
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Ari Engel: ![]()
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Engel had flopped the joint and was in a massive spot to take a commanding lead at the final table. Zinno was drawing all but dead with his overpair, while Ivarsson was looking for a spade to knock out both players.
Ivarsson drew a blank on the
turn but caught the monster
river to knock out two birds with one stone. As the shorter stack, Zinno walked away with €64,720, Engel received €88,470, and Ivarsson went from shortest stack to chip leader in the matter of minutes.

After a series of folds, Sorin Flutur shoved from the small blind and Alin Mitrache snap-called in the big blind with ![]()
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Flutur held the optional ![]()
but rivered a jack to send Mitrache to the payout desk in 8th place. Mitrache stormed off the final table after the river was dealt.
Alexander Ivarsson open-shoved 2,280,000 on the button and Ari Engel reshoved from the small blind to look him up.
Alexander Ivarsson: ![]()
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Ari Engel: ![]()
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board provided a nine for Ivarsson and he doubled up again in quick succession.
Level: 32
Blinds: 100,000/200,000
Ante: 200,000