Jean Montury opened the action from early position and Vlado Banicevic defended his big blind. On the turn, Banicevic check-called a bet of 1,300 and then led the river for 2,700. Banicevic immediately gave up and tossed his cards into the muck to award the pot to the Frenchman, who also raised the next hand from under the gun.
Farid Chati called from the button and then folded to a continuation bet on the flop. "Nice hand?" he asked and the Frenchman just grinned back.
Ruben Visser just "got owned" by Artan Dedusha with Vladimir Stepanian also in the hand and dropped down to half the starting stack while a couple other well known pros are also well below the 30,000 chips, too. Wouter Beltz is the complete opposite on more than three times of what everyone initially received.
Juha Helppi had raised to 850 from under the gun and Jason Wheeler called, heading to a heads-up flop of . Wheeler checked, Helppi continued for 1,125 and then quickly folded as Wheeler had check-raised to 3,300. The American expat, fully focused on his game, showed no reaction at all when collecting the chips and appeared completely in the zone.
His stack is not in the profit zone just yet though, but another double would send him there.
Govert Metaal limped in the last hand of the outer table and Faraz Jaka then moved all in for 2,500 from the button. Kevin Killeen three-bet small and Metaal called to see both players check down the flop . Killeen then bet the turn for 2,500 which Metaal called before the Irishman checked the on the river.
Metaal bet big, making it 8,000, and Killeen said he then folded ace-king. "Show me ace-queen," Jaka joked over to Metaal but was greeted by the of his opponent. Jaka only held for an inferior pair of tens and was sent to the rail, though this may only be temporarily.
Dennis Smit opened to 1,000 and found one caller in Noah Boeken to find a flop of . The continuation bet of Smit was answered with a raise to 8,000 by Boeken and Smit then got his last 13,300 in with the . Boeken called for most of his stack and had a straight draw on top of his two hearts, holding .
The turn and river filled up the board and the nut flush brought Smit back above starting stack.
Hossein Ensan just lost 17,000 chips, more than half of his stack, in a three-way hand after flopping a set. The river made for a four-card straight and Fatih Aydin as well as the player in seat two chopped the pot with a ten for the straight.
On the way back to the tables is also Faraz Jaka, who said he wants to have a day off tomorrow and thus entered straight away again.