Timothy Friese was down to his last 96,000 chips when he pushed them all in from the cutoff. Dan Larsen looked the American up from the button, with the covering stack.
Timothy Friese: A♠7♥
Dan Larsen: K♥Q♥
Neither player improved their hand on the 5♣10♠8♣9♦3♠ board, meaning that Friese's ace-high won him the pot as he doubled up.
Pieter Theelen, who won the Eureka Main Event at EPT Prague 2022, was heads up in a pot against Luka Bojovic. Theelen made a bet of 40,000 from the big blind on a board of Q♦10♥J♠4♠ and Bojovic made the call from the button.
Theelen then shoved all in for 100,000 chips on the 4♥ river and Bojovic needed little time before making the fold, awarding the pot to Theelen.
On another table, Michele Nizzardelli was spotted with a stack of 1,600,000 chips, almost four times the average stack.
Level: 20
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 12,000
Giovanni Logarzo pushed in his last 52,000 chips from the cutoff and was looked up by Tamer Kamel on the button, who had the covering stack.
Giocanni Logarzo: A♦3♣
Tamer Kamel: K♥Q♦
Kamel flopped the better pair on K♠4♥3♦. Neither player improved on the J♥6♥ runout, which meant that Logarzo was forced to leave the tournament area.
Kamel, on the other hand, had quadrupled the stack he started Day 2 with in the first three levels.
Tim Schmitt was all-in for only a few chips, and Alexis Laroche put his slightly bigger stack in as well. Jason Wheeler looked them both up with the covering stack, leading to a three-way showdown.
Tim Schmitt: K♠10♦
Alexis Laroche: 4♠4♣
Jason Wheeler: Q♥2♥
Laroche had an almost certain victory when the flop came 4♥4♦K♦. Wheeler was already drawing dead, and no runner-runner miracle happened for Smith as the J♥ turn and Q♠ river completed the board.
After losing some chips earlier in the day, Laroche was back to what he started Day 2 with. Meanwhile, Wheeler has lost the majority of his stack so far, sitting on 18 big blinds as play continued.
Thomas Murphy open-raised to 20,000 from the hijack before Pablo Silva three-bet to 60,000 from the small blind. Murphy then jammed all in for 155,000 when the action was back on him, and Silva made the call with the covering stack.
Thomas Murphy: J♠J♥
Pablo Silva: K♦Q♦
Murphy flopped a set on 10♠A♦J♣, but Silva had the better hand with a straight. The board did not pair on the Q♠6♣ runout, meaning that Murphy was eliminated from the High Roller.
Level: 19
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 10,000
Three players went to the river on a board of 4♥K♦Q♠Q♣3♦. The pot contained 330,000 chips when Luka Bojovic slid forward a bunch of chips, totaling 140,000.
Yevhen Dzhura thought it over for a bit before making the call, after which Jon Ander Martinez let out a big sigh before folding what he would later claim was a good queen.
Bojovic showed 4♠4♣ for a full house and Dzhura's cards hit the muck. By winning the pot, Bojovic could count himself among the chipleaders of the Eureka High Roller.
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