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Level: 16
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 500
On the final board of , Mathieu Clavet fired 12,000 into Van Marcus. Marcus thought for a bit and then made the call. Clavet tabled the for a turned pair of aces and won the pot. He's back up to about 435,000 while Marcus dropped to 200,000.
On the flop of , all of the money went in between Georges Hanna and Elias Brussianos. Hanna held an open-ended straight draw with and was up against the for Brussianos. The turn gave Hanna a few more outs when an fell and then the river completed the board with a to complete his straight.
He was all in for a little over 50,000 and is now up to about 125,000.
It's been a great day for Kari Somer. He started with 23,300 and is now up to about 215,000.
Dani Abi Rached went all in on the button for about 40,000 with and Somer gave him action with in the small blind. The board came down , eliminating Abi Rached from the tournament.
With the elimination of Dani Abi Rached, we are down to 27 players. Here is the redraw for the final three tables.
Table 1
1. Kelly Kim
2. Kfir Yamin
3. Rob Peltekci
4. Kari Somer
5. Yılmaz Oguz
6. Van Marcus
7. David Benyamine
8. Michael Schlobach
9. Foivos Pettas
Table 2
1. Bruno Stefanelli
2. Aineas Protopapas
3. Manig Loeser
4. Hakan Dalokay
5. Antoine Abou Khalil
6. Eric Mizrachi
7. Konstantinos Nanos
8. Onder Ozdemirler
9. Zsolt Vasvenszki
Table 3
1. Georges Hanna
2. Mathieu Clavet
3. Andreas Krause
4. Elias Brussianos
5. Jeff Hakim
6. Ahmet Ucali
7. Levent Baskaya
8. Chris Karagulleyan
9. Kerem Kiyak
After Manig Loeser raised to 12,500 from under the gun, action folded all the way around ti Aineas Protopapas in the big blind. He went all in for 35,500 and Loeser quickly made the call.
Loeser:
Protopapas:
The board ran through and Protopapas doubled up. Loeser was left with 230,000.
Foivos Pettas raised to 12,500 from the button. Kfir Yamin fought back from the big blind with a reraise to 40,000. Pettas folded and Yamin showed us, and only us, the as he was pushed the pot.
With the players now seated across three tables and only nine eliminations from the money, play has tightened up quite a bit. This normally happens as the players get closer to the money and start realizing they've almost made it to a cash. The short stacks are holding on while the big stacks aren't trying to jeopardize their position.