Level: 13
Blinds: 1,000/2,500
Ante: 2,500
Level: 13
Blinds: 1,000/2,500
Ante: 2,500
Two short stacks got their near identical short stacks into the middle and it was Stephane Le Moing who was covered by the smallest of margins.
Stephane Le Moing: A♠J♠
Paul Fontan Castrillon: Q♥Q♦
The Q♠8♠7♦10♣A♣ board gave Fontan Castrillon a set of queens and it was good enough to score the knockout. Both stacks were counted and the 28,500 of the Spaniard covered his table neighbor by a single chip.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
60,000
60,000
|
60,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Pierre Sallaberry was all in preflop for around 40,000 against Denis Vladimirov, who had him well covered as players flipped their cards.
Pierre Sallaberry: A♥K♥
Denis Vladimirov: A♠A♦
The board ran out Q♠8♥2♠J♠K♦. Vladimirov held with his pocket aces to win the pot and double his stack, while Sallaberry was eliminated from the flight.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
105,000
53,000
|
53,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
Busted | |
Candido Cappiello raised from the button before Chan Beckschebe three-bet to 16,500 from the small blind. Cappiello reraised to 34,000 and snap-jammed for 123,000 after Beckschebe five-bet to 71,500.
"Aces?" asked Beckschebe as he committed around half of his stack.
A few minutes passed and Beckschebe folded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
195,000 | |
|
|
85,000
75,000
|
75,000 |
Kamil Karaoglu opened 5,000 in the hijack and Andrea Cardinali jammed for 51,000 from the small blind. Karaoglu wasted little time making the call and both hands were exposed.
Andrea Cardinali: 7♦7♣
Kamil Karaoglu: A♣Q♣
Cardinali smashed the 7♠4♠2♣ flop, and the board completed with the K♦ turn, and 9♥ river.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
107,000 | |
|
|
14,000
14,000
|
14,000 |
Ankit Ahuja raised from early position and was called by Johannes Verhagen from middle position. Marcelo Manfredini, with 73,000, three-bet to 15,000 from the cutoff. Ahuja jammed as the big stack and Verhagen got out of the way while Manfredini called.
Marcelo Manfredini: Q♣Q♦
Ankit Ahuja: A♠5♠
Manfredini avoided an ace on the J♣10♣3♣9♠9♥ runout and doubled out.
"I should have called," lamented Verhagen who said he folded pocket nines.
"Why did you do that?" he asked Ahuja. "This is not how you preserve a stack," Verhagen continued to his opponent who has more than $2.5 million in tournament earnings.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
150,000
150,000
|
150,000 |
|
|
100,000
80,500
|
80,500 |
Antoine Boulet open raised, Thomas Saminadin called, then Charles Laczny moved all in from the button with a short stack. Boulet and Saminadin both called, then checked down the action on a board of 3♣A♠6♥K♦Q♥. Players flipped their cards for showdown.
Charles Laczny: 7♥7♦
Antoine Boulet: K♥J♥
Thomas Saminadin: 4♦4♥
Saminadin and Laczny both had pocket pairs, but Boulet paired his king on the turn to get ahead and win the pot. Laczny was eliminated from the flight.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
150,000
150,000
|
150,000 |
|
|
120,000
120,000
|
120,000 |
|
|
Busted |
On a four-way flop of 7♥6♥5♣, Dogan Dinler led for 34,000 in the small blind and Sergei Petrushevskii called all-in for slightly less in the big blind. Abel Pruchon folded and so did the other bigger stack Yang Zhang.
Sergei Petrushevskii: 9♦6♣
Dogan Dinler: 6♦5♠
The bottom two pair held on the J♣ turn as well as K♥ river runout.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
240,000 | |
|
|
170,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
|
130,000 | |
|
|
Busted |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
20,500 |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
330,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
|
250,000 | |
|
|
250,000 | |
|
|
225,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
|
|
165,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
|
150,000 | |
|
|
140,000
140,000
|
140,000 |
|
|
135,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
|
110,000 | |
|
|
110,000
77,000
|
77,000 |
|
|
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
80,000 | |
|
|
70,000
70,000
|
70,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
65,000 | |
|
|
60,000
60,000
|
60,000 |
|
|
55,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
|
55,000
55,000
|
55,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
35,000 | |
|
|
25,000
36,000
|
36,000 |
|
|
Busted | |