Wim Emo raised to 6,500 and Makarios Avramidis then three-bet to 15,000 before Ari Engel squeezed to 36,500. Only Avramidis called and they saw the flop . Avramidis check-called a continuation bet worth 27,000 and made a massive bet of 109,000 on the turn.
Engel spent a long time in the think tank and eventually time was called on him. The minute ran down without any decision and Engel's hand went into the muck at the very last second of consideration.
On the river of a board, Pascal Vos bet 14,500 against Hrazem Aanquich and the two had previously battled already. Aanquich called but then mucked when he was shown to drop down to less than 20 big blinds.
Below are some further updated counts of the tables nearby.
In a massive pot to the river, Wim Emo moved all in for 62,600 and Ari Engel eventually called with the for top pair. Emo had that beat with and scored a big double while Engel is suddenly under immediate pressure.
The unknown player over on the table of Ole Schemion sent his chips one seat over to Per Munksgaard after running with ace-queen into the pocket aces of the Dane, as confirmed by [Removed:172].
Jani Sointula busted just before the end of the level and Johan van Til will need a miracle if he wants to avoid the same fate. In a preflop all in for even stacks, he got it in with against the pocket kings of Day 1a chip leader Rens Feenstra and didn't get there.
Ari Engel raised to 39,000 chips and Donald Rae tossed in four T-10,000 chips from one seat over, all other players folded. Rae was about to turn over his cards but the dealer reminded him that Engel still had 600 chips behind. On the flop the rest went in and Engel showed .
Rae was ahead with and the turn and river changed nothing whatsoever anymore.
The players are heading into a 15-minute break and only 54 participants remain. In the break, the T-100 chips will be removed from the tournament as they are no longer needed.
The remaining 54 players have been balanced over six tables and a maximum of two more levels will be played tonight. In the case of reaching the money with 36 left, the day may be cut short though.
After several setbacks against Pascal Vos, it was just fitting that Hrazem Aanquich also lost the rest of it to his table neighbor as well. Aanquich was at risk with the and Vos won the flip with on the board .