On a flop of Guillaume Darcourt checked from the big blind to his German opponent Robert Schulz in the cut off. Schulz bet out 8,700 and without thinking for too long Darcourt made the call.
Darcourt checked again on the turn and Schulz gave it some thought before carefully cutting out 18,500 and sliding them forward. Darcourt's call was almost in before Schulz had released the chips.
The fell on the river and Darcourt checked for the third time. Schulz thought about it for a bit before checking behind.
In the last hand before the break, Francesco Delfoco got his stack of 127,100 in the middle after a raising war with Massou Cohen and it was a classic race. The Italian had and flipped against the of his opponent. Delfoco would not find any help on a board of and was sent to the rail.
Dimitar Danchev raised to 6,000 from the button and the player in the big blind called to see the flop of , which both players checked. On the turn, Danchev's continuation bet of 8,000 got through and he climbs slowly in chips.
There are going to be a lot of flips today. Not the most strategic aspect of the game but an integral part of tournament poker, a necessary evil if you will.
Stefan Schillhabel got the last of it in with and got looked up by the of Jin Haijing.
The cards fell . The river dealt the fatal blow to Schillhabel just before the end of the level.
Jan Boubli defended his big blind against the raise of Patryk Slusarek and then check-raised all in after a flop of . Initial raiser Slusarek called with the and Boubli needed help with his . Neither the turn nor the river changed anything and Boubli was done for the day.
Simon Ravnsbaek raised and then called the three-bet of Vadim Shlez out of the big blind to see a flop of . The Dane got his opponent all in and at risk for 64,800 with and then spotted the bad news as Shlez turned over the . After the turn, only the two remaining jacks would help but the river was a brick.
Olivier Piechaczyk took a lot of Milan Tomasz Rabsz’s chips earlier when he rivered a flush and now he had called a shove from Rabsz to put his tournament life at risk.
Piechaczyk tabled and Rabsz the .
The cards ran out and the kings held up to double up Rabsz.