Joining the action on the 10♦9♣8♦J♦ turn, Aliaksei Boika bet 2,000 out of the big blind and Antoine Rahal called on the button. The same action repeated on the 10♠ river albeit for 7.000 and Rahal called within a few seconds.
Boika tabled the K♦7♦ for a flush to the king and won the pot, helping himself back above the starting stack.
Matteo Cavelier raised to 1,700 from early position and Jerome Zerbib came along from the hijack. Michael Gathy then squeezed to 7,000 from the hijack, which quickly disposed of Cavelier.
Zerbib, however, tanked for a while before putting his stack of just under 30,000 in the middle. A quick fold followed from Gathy, and the pot was shipped Zerbib's way.
On a completed board of Q♣Q♦9♥4♠10♥ with around 20,000 in the middle, Mark Buckley checked out of the big blind. Nicolas Nabet pushed all in from the button and Buckley went into the tank before he splashed in the last 18,700.
Nabet nodded and flashed his A♣J♠, which Buckley had beat with the K♠Q♥.
"I think you have a nine, not queen," Nabet said in table chat before shipping over the double.
Facing a second barrel of 3,100 by Roberto Romanello on the A♠8♣7♠J♣ turn, Ran Shahar moved all in for 8,300. It was not much more to call for Romanello on the button, but he swiftly sent his cards into the muck without asking for any count.
Nikita Kuznetsov opened to 1,600 from under the gun and called when defending EPT Paris Main Event champion Razvan Belea jammed for 3,000 on his direct left.
Razvan Belea: A♦Q♣
Nikita Kuznetsov: Q♠J♠
Belea doubled up as Kuznetsov could not connect on the K♦3♠8♦7♥A♥ runout.
The following hand, Samantha Abernathy raised to 1,600 from the cutoff. Lars Tungel and Kuznetsov called from the button and big blind.
The Q♣9♣3♣ flop checked through to the 3♦ turn. Kuznetsov led out for 3,500 and only Abernathy called.
Kuznetsov sized up to 16,000 on the 8♠ river, but snap-folded when Abernathy announced all-in.
The turn showed Q♠7♦4♥8♥ and Maxime Chilaud checked for Michael Uguccioni to bet 6,300. With the bigger stack of the duo, Chilaud opted to call and then checked again on the 10♠ river.
Uguccioni checked it back this time and Chilaud showed his 9♦9♥ for a pair of nines, which the Italian had beat with the A♥10♦.
Grigorii Rodin, who finished in sixth place in the 2023 EPT Prague Main Event, is building a stack that puts him in the top ten chip counts. He explained to PokerNews that he had eliminated [Removed:548] and Jorge Ufano following a three-way all-in.
He recalled that [Removed:549] opened to 1,700 from under the gun off of a stack of 31,800. Rodin called with pocket tens before Ufano moved all in for around 10,000 from the big blind. [Removed:549] rejammed and Rodin called as the bigger stack.
Rodin was up against 8x8x and AxJx and his pocket tens remained best on the runout.
He then soon made it a hattrick of KOs. Rodin raised from under the gun and called Paraskevas Tsokaridis moved all in for 7,400 from the big blind.
Paraskevas Tsokaridis: A♦J♦
Grigorii Rodin: 8x8x
Rodin's eights were never troubled and held out to take in the pot after the board ran out with the 9♠5♦4♠5♣8♦.
Kyriakos Papadopoulos had raised under the gun and Fabrice Bigot had called from the small blind. On a 2♠4♥A♣ flop, Bigot checked to Papadopoulos, who put in a continuation-bet of 1,100 chips.
Bigot then raised to 4,000 and Papadopoulos made the call. Both players went on to check the 10♥ turn before Bigot bet 8,000 on the 9♥ river, around half of Papadopoulos' stack.
Papadopoulos then shoved the rest in the middle, which caused Bigot to think the situation over for a few minutes. Eventually, the clock was called on him, and under the pressure of time, he slammed in a call.
Papadopoulos showed 7♥7♠ for a pair of sevens, no match for the A♦J♦ of Bigot. Bigot celebrated his correct call and raked in the chips, while Papadopoulos headed to the exit.
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