At the same time on different tables, Mehdi Violleau and Erwann Pecheux were eliminated and tournament staff announced to them that the pay jump between 56th and 55th place would be chopped.
Violleau was ousted in a battle of the blinds with Giorgiy Skhulukhiya when his last 955,000 went in with versus . The board came and Skhulukhiya flopped his ace, he had the Frenchman covered ba one big blind.
Pecheux was all in with against the of Nazar Buhaiov and the flop left him drawing dead right away on the flop.
Nikita Kuznetcov opened to 60,000 from middle position and was called by Fabio Di Blasi, who defended his big blind. The flop came and Di Blasi checked over to Kuznetcov, who continuation-bet 50,000. Di Blasi called.
The turn was and both players checked, putting a river on board. Di Blasi fired out 130,000 and Kuznetcov quickly dropped in a chip to signify a call.
Di Blasi picked up his hand relatively tentatively, doing so in a manner that he could see the entirety of both of his cards before he finished turning them over to table for a bluff. Kuznetcov turned over right away after seeing the bluff, showing his trips to earn him the pot and bring him to just shy of 3 million in chips as a result.
Serge Ekert was all in from under the gun for 375,000 and picked up two callers in Jussi Mattila and Borge Sandsgaard out of the blinds. The two remaining active players checked the flop and turn. Mattila bet the river for 325,000 and Sandsgaard folded.
Ekert briefly flashed the and Mattila had the best of it in .
Vojtech Susta was in the hijack and opened to 85,000. Action went around to Pim Kuipers, who three-bet all in for 330,000. Susta made the call.
Pim Kuipers:
Vojtech Susta:
The flop came , keeping Kuipers out in front and in improving position to double. Unfortunately for him, the tides changed on the turn and Susta was the one to continue improving as the river came to result in him having two pair. Kuipers tapped the table to wish everybody good luck and was on his way while the pot was sent Susta's way.