Andreas Kaju opened up for 14,000 and Jussi Mattila to his left folded before he stood up. Daniel Chutrov to Mattila's left called and the rest of the players folded.
As the flop was being dealt, Chutrov asked the players to his left to move over a bit to give the players on his side of the table some room. There was a bit of talk that the seats were more or less evenly distributed.
Jussi Mattila, who wasn't taking offense, laughed while telling Chutrov, "I showered in the morning."
Some of the table smiled while Kaju checked. However, Chutrov kept his poker face on and fired out for 12,500 and got a fold from his opponent.
Tanel Evert was low on chips with a little more than 10 big blinds in his stack. He jammed his small stack in late position with and Silver Nommik to his left over-jammed for twice his stack with . The rest of the table folded.
It wasn't looking good for Evert after the flop came . It looked even worse for him when the appeared on the turn. He sighed heavily in relief and smiled after the appeared on the river to give him a chop with the board pairing twice.
As this hand was going down, a dealer shouted, "Seat open." After the announcement, we saw it was Dmitrios Amoiridis heading out the door and out of the tournament in 38th place or seven players shy of the money.
The action folded to Mats Johan Fredrik Palokangas and he jammed for 78,000 on the button. Aleksei Smirnov in the small blind, had him covered and was also all-in. The big blind folded and players turned over their cards.
Palokangas:
Smirnov:
Smirnov maintained the advantage in the hand after the flop ran out . The on the turn gave Smirnov two pair but wasn't the worst card in the deck for his opponent as it created open-ended straight draw outs for the river.
Despite Palokangas saying, "straight, straight," he was unable to coax the deck his way. The completed the board on the river to give Smirnov a full house. He wished players a good game and fist-pumped Smirnov on his way out of the tournament area.
Also eliminated before the break was Samuli Laine.
Open-face Chinese Poker is a game poker players love to play with their friends. However, it is rare to see this fun poker variant offered in tournament festivals.
At 3 p.m., a €330 OFC tournament is scheduled to begin. A bunch of players was talking about playing it with a few of them flashing their tickets past the media desk. Last year, Martin "Franke" von Zweigbergk won the tournament.
It is a guarantee that he won't win this year as he confirmed he is unable to play. Von Zweigbergk instead will have to settle for winning a tournament earlier this festival in the €330 Sviten Special tournament.
Estonia's Kelly Limonova, who now calls Barcelona her home, has just about doubled her Day 3 starting stack to 500,000 and is now in the chip lead. Juha Helppi, who began the day in the chip lead has also had a strong start and is up to 455,000 in chips.
The tournament is on its first break of the day. While the action was fast and furious with 14 eliminations the first blind level, only two more took place the following level.
We will update the chip stacks of many of the players after the break.
The action began with OlyBet Team pro Dmitrijs Meless opening up in late position with a near min-bet of 10,500. Arunas Garunkstis called from one seat over and the rest of the players folded.
Meless quickly checked the flop before he called a bet of 11,000 from his opponent. He just as quickly checked again when the appeared on the turn. This time, Garnukstis thought for a moment before he bet 14,500. Meless once again quickly called.
Both players checked after the completed the board on the river. Meless showed he had and collected a medium-sized pot after Garunsktis tossed his hand into the muck.
Risto Hentunen's stack took a hit earlier in the day but he got a ton back with a double up. With already a healthy amount of chips in the pot, Hentunen was all-in for about 63,000 with against the held by Totti Matias Arusuo on the turn with the board reading .
Arusuo was drawing dead and the that appeared on the river or any other card wasn't going to be able to save him.
flop was being dealt, Chutrov asked the players to his left to move over a bit to give the players on his side of the table some room. There was a bit of talk that the seats were more or less evenly distributed.
and Silver Nommik to his left over-jammed for twice his stack with 
. The rest of the table folded.
. It looked even worse for him when the 
appeared on the turn. He sighed heavily in relief and smiled after the 
appeared on the river to give him a chop with the board pairing twice.
completed the board on the river to give Smirnov a full house. He wished players a good game and fist-pumped Smirnov on his way out of the tournament area.
appeared on the turn. This time, Garnukstis thought for a moment before he bet 14,500. Meless once again quickly called.
completed the board on the river. Meless showed he had 
against the 
. 
