Giuliano Bendinelli opened for 1,000 and got a call from Ibrahim Ghassan before Jose Carlos Garcia squeezed to 2,900. That got Bendinelli to lay it down but Ghassan was going nowhere and called.
It was checked all the way down on a board of 
where a bet of 6,700 took the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
56,000 | |
|
44,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
After a river on the 
board, Konstantin Puchkov paid off a 6,600-bet by Michael Tureniec and then mucked when he was shown 
. The Swede re-entered not long ago and this is the final attempt for the former EPT champion, as only a single re-entry is allowed.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
60,000
60,000
|
60,000 |
|
||
|
40,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
Tiago Martinho opened for 1,000 and got called by Andrei Ivashkin before the player on the button squeezed to 3,800. That didn’t do much good as both players folded.
The flop was 
and it was Ivashkin who took the betting lead for 4,200. The button folded but Martinho stuck around.
The turn card was the 
and Martinho went for a bet of 13,000. Ivashkin threw it away.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
62,000 | |
|
|
58,000 |
There was one player with even less chips than Rui Ferreira and that was Emrah Cakmak. Those two short stacks just clashed and it would be Cakmak to hit the rail after his 
failed to improve. Ferreira held 
and almost tripled up his short stack in the new level after a board of 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
14,000
8,400
|
8,400 |
|
Busted |
Serial High Roller Davidi Kitai has decided the time is right and has sat down with is newly bought chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
50,000 | |
|
||
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
125,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
80,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
|
70,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
58,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
|
||
|
57,000
11,000
|
11,000 |
|
|
||
|
46,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
|
|
||
|
45,000
12,000
|
12,000 |
|
|
||
|
40,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
|
29,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
27,000
23,000
|
23,000 |
|
||
|
25,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
20,000
38,500
|
38,500 |
Level: 5
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
Second break of the day for the High Rollers. Back in 20 minutes.
At one point Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand Grospellier was riding high in the Main Event near the top of the leader board but after a rough couple of days his push for a second title came to a premature end.
Grospellier will instead have to content himself with a tilt at the High Roller title as he has just bought in.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
50,000 | |
|
|
||
The board was already complete and reading 
and [Removed:172] bet 11,700. Vojtech Ruzicka from one seat over called quickly and then shook his head in disgust once he spotted the 
of Kramer.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
84,000
34,000
|
34,000 |
|
30,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
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