With plenty of chips in the middle to the Q♠10♠6♣6♥10♣, Sergi Reixach pushed all in and Pavlos Xanthopoulos instantly called. Reixach tabled the A♣Q♥ but it was no good, as Xanthopoulos had turned trips and rivered a full house with the A♠6♠.
"Flop was check, check, and he check-raised the turn. No wait, I can't remember," Ian Bradley mentioned and then asked Xanthopoulos, who replied "no, he bet the flop."
Alex Keating raised to 1,600 as first to act and Roberto Romanello flat-called from the cutoff. Govert Metaal then made it 7,000 to go on the button, after which Hugo Machado jammed all in for 20,700.
Keating and Romanello quickly got out of the way, but Metaal tanked for a bit before putting in the call.
Hugo Machado: A♦K♠
Govert Metaal: Q♥9♦
Metaal was three-betting light but had two live cards to hit. However, the A♣6♥6♠ flop spelled disaster for him, and the 8♥ turn locked up the pot for Machado. The 10♠ river appeared as a formality and the pot was shipped to Machado.
Level: 8
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 1,000
In a battle of the blinds, Thomas Boivin check-raised the K♦4♣3♠ flop to 6,000 and Fintan Hand stuck around.
Boivin checked the K♠ on the turn for Hand to bet 4,000 and the Belgian called. Both then checked the 2♠ on the river and Boivin won the pot with the 4♦3♦.
"Not a great turn," another player at the table remarked.
Kiryl Asaulenka four-bet to what appeared to be 11,700 and then called the five-bet shove by Samuel Polack from two seats over for around 32,000.
Kiryl Asaulenka: A♦K♣
Samuel Polack: Q♣Q♠
The Q♥7♦4♠ flop left Asaulanka on the ropes and his elimination was confirmed with the 5♣ turn to make the 9♣ river a formality.
Stephane Guelpa opened to 1,600 from early position before Francky Magliocco three-bet to 9,500 from the cutoff. Antoine Rahal then moved all in for 17,900 from the button, which prompted Tobias Duthweiler to five-bet jam for around 65,000 from the small blind.
Guelpa folded while Magliocco argued that the small blind could only call. He was mistaken after the dealer explained, which was backed up by the tournament director. Magliocco folded and the cards went on their backs.
Antoine Rahal: 4♦4♣
Tobias Duthweiler: A♦3♦
There were some eyebrows raised at what cards were tabled, but Rahal didn't mind as he breathed life into his stack after remaining best following the 6♥10♦5♣Q♦Q♣ runout.
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.
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♦.
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