Action was heads up with 29,000 in the middle and 6♦3♠9♠ on the flop when Mauricio Salazar Sanchez shoved his last 24,000. Jose Rodriguez Zurita called to put him at risk and the cards were turned up.
Mauricio Salazar Sanchez: 10♠8♥
Jose Rodriguez Zurita: 6♥5♥
The board finished up with Q♦Q♠ and Zurita held on with a pair of sixes to send Sanchez to the rail.
Kader Slila opened to 10,000 from the hijack and was three-bet to 42,000 by Pedro Lopes in the small blind. It was folded back to Slila, who called.
Slila then called a 28,000 bet from Lopes on the Q♦6♥6♠ flop and an 85,000 bet from Lopes on the 3♠ turn.
The J♠ completed the board and Lopes announced he was all in, which was enough to put Slila all in for his last 230,000. Slila thought a while before letting his hand go and Lopes collected the pot without showing.
All the players folded to Ka Kwan Lau in the small blind, who decided to limp. In the big blind, Anton Suarez didn't want Lau to see the flop so easily, so he raised to 17,000. But it seemed like Lau had a hand, as he re-raised to 55,000. Suarez counted his stack, then moved all in for 230,000 chips. Lau snap-called.
Anton Suarez: 7♥7♠
Ka Kwan Lau: 9♣9♠
Both players in the blinds had a pair, but Lau was in the lead. And he maintained his lead on 10♥A♠Q♦10♦4♣.
As he had a bigger stack than Suarez, his opponent was eliminated.
Christophe Malaurie was all in for around 140,000 from middle position against the bigger-stacked Jose Rodriguez Zurita in the big blind.
Christophe Malaurie: Q♣Q♠
Jose Rodriguez Zurita: K♣K♥
Malaurie had run his queens into kings and was eliminated after getting no help from the runout of 2♣A♣2♦10♣6♦.
PokerStars Ambassador Benjamin Spragg was all in on his very first hand and at risk against Julien Martini.
Benjamin Spragg: A♥K♥
Julien Martini: 7♠7♥
The classic flip saw Spragg continue to trail after the 5♠5♥9♦ flop and 2♦ turn, but the A♦ arrived on the river to stay alive and double his stack.
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Level: 16
Blinds: 2,000/5,000
Ante: 5,000
6th of the ESPT Main Event for €136,850 a few days ago, Avihai Smadga had a single blind left at the beginning of the day. So at the start of Day 3, he moved all in from under the gun. Milos Lazic raised in middle position, and the €100,000 Super High Roller champion Kayhan Mokri called in the big blind.
On the flop 7♥2♣5♣, Lazic made a continuation bet of 10,000, and Mokri check-called. But he folded after Lazic fired a second barrel of 22,000 on the turn 2♠.
Avihai Smadga: K♠6♦
Milos Lazic: K♥Q♦
Smadga needed a six and a six only. But the 8♣ came on the river, and he was eliminated.
Samuel Fournier opened to 8,000 from the hijack and was three-bet to 22,000 by Athanasios Tavlas from the cutoff. The action then folded to Recep Aydemir in the big blind, who cut out a four-bet of approximately 60,000 and placed it into the middle.
Both Fournier and Tavlas folded and Aydemir took down the pot uncontested.
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