Nuno Correia opened to 80,000 from middle position and Alisa Sibgatova moved all in for approximately 500,000 from the cutoff. Correia, who covered Sibgatova slightly, snap-called to put her at risk.
Alisa Sibgatova: 9♠9♣
Nuno Correia: A♠A♥
Sibgatova was in bad shape against Correia's aces and failed to find any improvement on the K♥K♠8♦10♣6♠ runout, resulting in her elimination while Correia secured nearly a full double up.
Bakhos Joumaa opened to 160,000 from early position and Yiannakis Papapetrou moved all in for his last 340,000. Action folded around to Joumaa who called with a covering stack to put Papapetrou at risk.
Yiannakis Papapetrou: A♠K♠
Bakhos Joumaa: 8♠8♦
Joumaa pulled ahead on the K♥Q♠4♥ flop and remained ahead on the 3♥ turn and J♥ river to send Papapetrou to the rail and collect the last of his chips.
Level: 23
Blinds: 20,000/40,000
Ante: 40,000
The final 27 players are now on a 60-minute dinner break.
Andrei Daniliuk opened to 60,000 from the button and Feyzullah Karaarslan three-bet to 160,000 from the big blind. Daniliuk made the call.
The flop came 9♥7♠7♣ and Karaarslan fired a 105,000 continuation bet which was called by Daniliuk.
Karaarslan bet again for 205,000 on the 3♠ turn and Daniliuk made the call.
The river was the 9♣. Karaarslan bet 510,000, sending Daniliuk into the tank.
After a couple minutes Daniliuk mucked his hand and Karaarslan took down a sizable pot without showdown.
| Table | Seat | Name | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Bernard Boutboul | France | 2,960,000 | 99 |
| 1 | 2 | Maksim Skripkin | Russia | 600,000 | 20 |
| 1 | 3 | Harout Ghazarian | Canada | 705,000 | 24 |
| 1 | 4 | Giorgiy Skhulukhiya | Georgia | 1,900,000 | 63 |
| 1 | 5 | Antoine Hasbani | Lebanon | 660,000 | 22 |
| 1 | 6 | Bakhos Joumaa | Lebanon | 4,350,000 | 145 |
| 1 | 7 | Nikolay Ponomarev | United Kingdom | 1,700,000 | 57 |
| 1 | 8 | Yiannakis Papapetrou | Cyprus | 400,000 | 13 |
| 1 | 9 | Ivan Govorov | Russia | 2,350,000 | 78 |
| Table | Seat | Name | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
| 2 | 1 | Ankit Ahuja | India | 2,650,000 | 88 |
| 2 | 2 | Damir Gabdullin | Russia | 1,500,000 | 50 |
| 2 | 3 | Yunsheng Sun | China | 2,480,000 | 83 |
| 2 | 4 | Sakis Adrianopoulos | Greece | 465,000 | 16 |
| 2 | 5 | Andrei Daniliuk | Russia | 4,470,000 | 149 |
| 2 | 6 | Oleg Netaliev | Russia | 2,480,000 | 83 |
| 2 | 7 | Feyzullah Karaarslan | Turkey | 2,810,000 | 94 |
| 2 | 8 | Tugce Hursoz | Turkey | 1,750,000 | 58 |
| 2 | 9 | Ihor Kaliahin | Ukraine | 740,000 | 25 |
| Table | Seat | Name | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
| 3 | 1 | Leonid Sidelkovskiy | Russia | 1,400,000 | 47 |
| 3 | 2 | Sultan Meirbekov | Kazakhstan | 1,970,000 | 66 |
| 3 | 3 | Nuno Correia | Portugal | 930,000 | 31 |
| 3 | 4 | Hadi Khadra | Lebanon | 2,310,000 | 77 |
| 3 | 5 | Nikolay Fal | Russia | 795,000 | 27 |
| 3 | 6 | Martynas Vitkauskas | Lithuania | 1,105,000 | 37 |
| 3 | 7 | Alisa Sibgatova | Russia | 635,000 | 21 |
| 3 | 8 | Dmitry Yurasov | Russia | 945,000 | 32 |
| 3 | 9 | Tahsin Cankurtaranli | Turkey | 935,000 | 31 |
The field has been whittled down to just 27 players and the three-table redraw is underway.
Pokernews will now be covering the event on a 30-minute delay as to not spoil the feature table live stream on the Merit Poker YouTube channel.
Level: 22
Blinds: 15,000/30,000
Ante: 30,000
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