Joni Jouhkimainen opened for 24,000 from the button before he called a three-bet jam by Ami Barer from the small blind to 290,531.
Ami Barer: 
Joni Jouhkimainen: 
The 
board gave Barer top pair but this didn't beat Jouhkimainen's ladies and he was ousted in 26th place. Marius Gierse went out at another table in 25th place to bring the field down to 24 players.
"77Storm77" jammed for 163,715 from the cutoff before Jareth "UraizeIfold" East three-bet jammed for 390,552 from the small blind. Joni Jouhkimainen folded from the big blind and the cards were shown.
77Storm77: 
Jareth "UraizeIfold" East: 
East won the flip after his queen paired up on the 
board to eliminate his opponent. Pablo Navarro was eliminated on a different table around the same time to leave just 26 players remaining.
A few hands later, East won another big hand. He got it all in preflop with against the 
help by Michael Addamo. The 
board gave East a set and he was over 1 million in chips.
Bruno Volkmann opened for 24,000 from the button and was called by Rainer Kempe from the big blind. Kempe check-raised the the 
flop from 16,650 to 49,617 and Volkmann called.
Volkmann then called a bet of 82,917 on the 
river before Kempe jammed the river. Volkmann called and doubled up with his being more than enough to beat Kempe's 
.
Level: 15
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 1,800
Christian Rudolph opened for 21,000 from the hijack before he called a three-bet jam by Aleksejs Ponakovs to 313,383 from the big blind.
Aleksejs Ponakovs: 
Christian Rudolph:
Ponakovs needed some help but none came on the 
board. Rudolph, who finished the hand with a set of queens, collected Ponakovs' $8,750 bounty while also witnessing his stack go past 1 million in chips.
There were just 28 players remaining after the hand with 20 guaranteed at least a min-cash of $15,804 in addition to any bounties collected.
Michael Addamo opened from early position for 20,000. Wiktor Malinowski jammed for 32,695 from the hijack and Yuri Dzivielevski jammed as well for 285,817 from the button.
Addamo had them both well covered and made the call.
Wiktor Malinowski: 
Yuri Dzivielevski:
Michael Addamo: 
The 
board was good enough for Dzivielevski to win both the main pot and side pots.
The action is on its fifth short break.
Level: 14
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 1,500
Benjamin Rolle opened for 17,600 from the button before he called a three-bet jam by Anatoly Filatov to 51,777 from the small blind.
Anatoly Filatov:
Benjamin Rolle: 
Filatov was ousted in 36th place after he got no help from the 
board and Rolle collected his $5,000 bounty.
Late registration has just closed for the Thursday Thrill. The event attracted 157 entries including 49 re-entries to generate a $1,570,000 prize pool to smash the $1 million guarantee.
The top two spots will collect nearly $114K each, although the winner will get much more as the eventually progressive bounty will be huge at the end.
The top 20 spots will each collect $15,805 with 37 players remaining. The full payouts are listed in the Payouts tab in our coverage.
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