A raising war saw a four-bet to 562,000 by Sergey Lomakin and a call by Anton Gililov, who then saw a flop of and a check by Lomakin. Gililov bet 525,000 and Lomakin called before the turn was checked. Lomakin bet the river for 300,000 and Gililov folded to get shown pocket kings by Lomakin.
While the stack of Lomakin is already impressive, Alexander Krasuntcev tops that with even more on the same table that also includes Alexandru Papazian.
Here are some updated stacks from the Main Event in the main tournament area. partypoker Sponsored Pros Jan-Peter Jachtmann and Johnny Lodden are going well, as is Konstantin Puchkov.
Meanwhile partypoker Chairman Mike Sexton and High Roller final tablists Leon Tsoukernik and Diego Zeiter have both been eliminated.
"I only saw one card," Mikalai Vaskaboinikau said after pushing for 205,000 from the small blind and being called by Felix Schulze. The latter turned over and the Belorussian had , which caused plenty of chuckles around the table.
The board came and Vaskaboinikau doubled his short stack.
Gary Banks faced a raise to 55,000 by Pavel Shirshikov and three-bet to 192,000 in the small blind. That did the trick to force a fold.
Aleksandar Tomovic got through with a four-bet shove and has around the starting stack now.
Nikita Bochkin raised to 62,000 on the button and the small blind called. Andrey Gerasimov in the big blind pushed for 391,000 and Bochkin reshoved to force a fold.
Andrey Gerasimov:
Nikita Bochkin:
The board came and that was it for Gerasimov.
Konstantinos Nanos busted on the first bullet and re-entered, while Terrance Green, Arunas Sapitavicius and Antonello Capoblanco were also among the casualties.
While Gerald Karlic bet the river for 325,000 and folded to a shove, flashing a deuce and being shown for the nut straight, Govert Metaal on his table got up to head into the break. The Dutchman had one more story to tell, though, as he five-bet to 625,000 and folded to Karlic's six-bet shove while revealing pocket kings.
"He had aces," Metaal added and Karlic just grinned. Both remain well above the average and below are further assorted counts in the upper cash game area.
According to the screens, there are 447 players out of 938 entries remaining and they have been sent on their first 15-minute break of the day, in which the T-1,000 chips will be raced off.
Soon after coming back from the break, Anatoly Filatov was all in and at risk for 800,000. Arut Lobyan called with the and Filatov's held up thanks to a board of .
Right after, Roberto Romanello open-shoved from under the gun and Richard Dubini called all in for less.
Romanello had the and Dubini showed . There was no sweat on the board and the partypoker Sponsored Pros chopped it up.
Roman Cieslik was waiting outside of the tournament area and explained that his shove for just two big blinds was called by six opponents. Cieslik flopped an open-ended straight draw with jack-ten but ultimately bricked to see an opponent with pocket sixes won the pot.
Alexander Matveev was among those to bust in the theatre and he was followed by Allmas Umarov. The player from Kazakhstan got it in with and Arman Atshemyan called with the . The board came to see Atshemyan get there on the river.
both Ilya Gorodetskiy and Philipp Gruissem checked.
and Gorodetskiy bet 77,000. Gruissem raised to 225,000 and his opponent called.
and Gorodetskiy checked. Gruissem bet 325,000 and Gorodetskiy called.
for two pair and took down the pot.
and a check by Lomakin. Gililov bet 525,000 and Lomakin called before the 
river for 300,000 and Gililov folded to get shown pocket kings by Lomakin.
and the Belorussian had 
and Vaskaboinikau doubled his short stack.
river for 325,000 and folded to a shove, flashing a deuce and being shown 
for the nut straight, Govert Metaal on his table got up to head into the break. The Dutchman had one more story to tell, though, as he five-bet to 625,000 and folded to Karlic's six-bet shove while revealing pocket kings.
held up thanks to a board of 
.
and Dubini showed 
and Arman Atshemyan called with the 
