Players have been sent on a 60-minute dinner break with the clocks showing 76 players remaining and the money bubble approaching. Action will pick back up at approximately 8:18 p.m. local time.
Players have been sent on a 60-minute dinner break with the clocks showing 76 players remaining and the money bubble approaching. Action will pick back up at approximately 8:18 p.m. local time.
Pedro Neves raised to 11,000, Mateus Endo reraised to 38,000 and Jenya Gavrilovich four-bet to 105,000 from the big blind. Neves folded and Mateus Endo called.
The flop came ![]()
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. Gavrilovich led for 82,000 and Endo called. By this point, the pot was already huge, worth more than the average stack.
On the turn of
, Gavrilovich led again for a similar size of 78,000 and Endo called. The river came the
and Gavrilovich switched to a check. Endo pushed all in for 332,000 and Gavrilovich, after using several time bank cards, made the fold.
The pot took Endo up to nearly 900,000 chips, which makes him the tournament chip leader.
2023 PCA Main Event winner Michel Dattani and Abdelhakim Zoufri were all in preflop following a raising war. Zoufri, in the big blind, was at risk with his last 336,000 chips, while Dattani, under the gun, narrowly covered him by 13,000.
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The aces held on the ![]()
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runout for Zoufri to take in the massive pot.
The very next hand, Zoufri put Dattani all in and the latter called for his tournament life. Dattani had the ![]()
while Zoufri was ahead with his ![]()
. Dattani managed to get the double up as the board ran out with the ![]()
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Dattani then moved all in again in the following two hands but took in the pots uncontested.
Abdelhakim Zoufri opened to 12,000 from middle position and Oleh Okhotskyi defended his big blind.
Okhotskyi snap-called bets of 10,000 and 16,000 on the flop and turn for the final board to show ![]()
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Okhotskyi checked once more and Zoufri sized up to 41,000. Okhotskyi bucked the trend of calling quickly and went into the tank. After using up one of his time bank cards, he called.
Zoufri had the ![]()
for a wheel and Okhotskyi mucked.
In a three-way pot on a flop of ![]()
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, Sacha Rymland bet and only Mauricio Ferreira Pais called.
Rymland then checked on the
turn and Pais checked back. The
river completed the board and Rymland bet 20,000. Pais gave it some thought and called, only to muck when his opponent showed ![]()
for a pair of tens.
Oleh Okhotskyi raised and Jerome Finck three-bet. Okhotskyi four-bet all in to 88,000 and Finck called. Players flipped their cards, with Okhotskyi at risk.
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. Okhotskyi was well ahead preflop and hit a set of nines on the flop. With no flush draw on board, Finck was drawing very thin and failed to improve throughout the course of the hand. Okhotskyi doubled up with his set.
Tom-Aksel Bedell opened to 11,000 from middle position and Leon Sturm three-bet to 28,000 from the hijack.
"Kings?" asked Bedell before calling.
Bedell checked on the flop of ![]()
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and Sturm continued for 16,000. Bedell called. Bedell checked again on the
turn and Sturm checked back.
The
river completed the board and Bedell led out with a hefty bet of 62,000. Sturm used a time bank and folded.
Petar Kalev opened to 10,000 from early position before Daniyar Aubakirov three-bet to 36,000 from the small blind. Kalev called.
Kalev then called bets of 18,000 and 25,000 for the final board to read ![]()
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. Aubakirov then emptied the clip for 80,000 and was quickly called.
Aubakirov tried running a triple barrel bluff with his ![]()
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Alberto Ah Line shoved all in from early position and was called by Nariman Yaghmai. Players flipped their cards for what turned out to be a coin-flip-type race.
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. It was a decent flop for Ah Line, made even better by the eight on the turn which gave him a set. Yaghmai lost a chunk of his stack and Ah Line doubled up.