Andrei Ivashkin had been short for a while and had got a double up a few hands earlier but was still shy of 50,000 when he got the last of it in and got a call from Eric Sfez.
Ivashkin had the best of it with against the of Sfez.
The flop of gave Ivashkin his pair but also a flush draw to Sfez. That’s not how he knocked Ivashkin out though as the turn and river gave Sfez trips and the rest of Ivashkin’s chips.
Jonathan Little raised from under the gun and then four-bet shoved after Sergio Aido had three-bet from one seat over. The Spaniard called off for his last 150,000 with and was in great shape to double up versus the of the American. However, the flop was devastating, leaving him with only one out.
Neither the turn nor the river changed anything and Little is now the new chip leader.
Jose Carlos Garcia was all in for only 18,000 chips and got isolated by Robin Ylitalo from one seat over with a reraise. All other players folded and Garcia was at risk with . Ylitalo had the better kicker with and he scored the knockout on a board of .
Joe Mouawad and Ivan Luca were preflop all in after a three-bet shove and call with Mouawad being the player at risk. The Lebanese held in the small blind and Luca was ahead with . The board ran out and after the stacks were counted, Mouawad was covered by less than 10,000 chips.
Artem Metalidi min-raised to 10,000 from the button and Josip Simunic defended his big blind to see the heads-up flop of . The Austrian check-called a bet of 13,000 and both players then checked the turn. Simunic bet 29,000 after the river and got called by Metalidi to reveal as winning hand.
Not many hands have gone post flop as of lately and the start of the level had been very conservative. Josip Simunic raised to 11,000 from the button and then gave up to the 27,500 three-bet of Fady Kamar.
One table over, Vladimir Troyanovskiy did the same for 12,000 after Thomas Butzhammer put in the reraise.
With 26 players left and 17 getting paid, there are only three shorter stacks in Carlos Lopes, Gilbert Diaz and Tiago Martinho.
against the 
of Sfez.
gave Ivashkin his pair but also a flush draw to Sfez. That’s not how he knocked Ivashkin out though as the turn 
and river 
gave Sfez trips and the rest of Ivashkin’s chips.
flop was devastating, leaving him with only one out.
turn nor the 
river changed anything and Little is now the new chip leader.
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and he scored the knockout on a board of 
in the small blind and Luca was ahead with 
and after the stacks were counted, Mouawad was covered by less than 10,000 chips.
and Little 
turn. Simunic bet 29,000 after the 
