Andres Viola scored a big double up against Roland Gerga, before the flop and on the flop chips went in before Viola then shoved the turn for 60,000. Gerga eventually called with and Viola flipped over , the river blanked.
Shortly after, Gerga also lost another 60,000 when running into the pocket aces of a short stack.
A few minutes prior to it, Fernando Dos Santos Ferreira had survived an all in for 49,000 with against the of Ivan Luca in the small blind. The board came .
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"Sorry man, but you saved me. If you fold, I call," Dragoslav Timarac said to Adam Jaguscik as the latter had just been eliminated by Daniel Rose. The latter had defended in the blinds, as did Jaguscik and the action then went nuts on the flop . Timarac managed to fold aces whereas Rose went into the showdown with .
Jaguscik held the and the board completed with the turn and river.
Frederic Schwarzer lost a flip for 62,000 with against the of Apostolos Chatzopoulos on a board of , the remaining chips then vanished shortly after.
Sergey Topchiy clashed with Arturs Scerbaks and lost most of his chips with versus . Scerbaks had flopped the straight on a board of and left Topchiy very short, it was all over a couple of minutes later.
Domenico Gala busted two players including Julien Arethuse and among the other seat open was also Jean-Marc Jelk. Peter Siemund has an identical big stack.
Aleksei Smirnov doubled up for 60,000 with versus on a board of .
Dominik Paus was down to 39,000 chips when everyone went on dinner break, now he is up to 380,000 after taking all the chips from Oliver Heidel. He first doubled with versus the of the fellow German on a board of , then with tens versus ace-king.
Last but not least, Heidel shoved the river for 130,000 into a pot of 70,000. Paus called with for the straight and Heidel's were worthless.
A short-stacked Gunther Rettel shoved out of the blinds with and initial raiser Dariusz Beres had an easy call with the . The board ran out and that gave Beres a slight bump to his stack.
Almost 10 players are waiting to get their cash right now and the screens show 88 players remaining. An updated list of all players in the money thus far will be available as soon as possible.
Martin Mulsow opened to 15,000 and Boris Andreev flat-called from the small blind. On the flop , Andreev check-called a bet of 15,000 and the on the turn saw Andreev check and Mulsow jam for 60,000. Andreev called with and Mulsow's was drawing thin.
The river even gave Andreev a flush and the German busted.
Mykola Lakatosh, who had survived the bubble with less than two big blinds, was also spotted out for a min cash as well.