Lavrentiy Ni was eliminated and soon joined on the rail by Nikita Bochkin and Aleksandr Kuzmin, while Oleg Semenov doubled.
Bochkin put his hopes on out of the big blind on a flop of and button aggressor Gleb Tremzin looked him up with the . The turn and river changed nothing anymore.
Kuzmin three-bet all in with a short stack on the button and Aliaksandr Hirs in the cutoff called.
Aleksandr Kuzmin:
Aliaksandr Hirs:
The board came and Hirs flopped the straight.
Last but not least a "very drunk" Oleg Semenov - he announced that very fact in Russian in table chat - jammed for just over 2.5 million with and Andrey Kotelnikov called with the . The board of gave Semenov two pair.
Colin McTaggart managed to get all his chips into the middle preflop against Aliaksandr Hirs and was in great shape for a double up with pocket aces versus ace-jack.
The board fell , and McTaggart improved to a set on the river to seal the win, and his stack moved up to 6,500,000.
Down to his last 6.45 million, Stanislav Voskresenskiy four-bet all in and table neighbor Ramin Boyazitov looked him up to see both players turn over pocket pairs.
Stanislav Voskresenskiy:
Ramin Boyazitov:
Both suits were covered as well and Voskresenskiy found no help on the board of to become the most recent casualty. He stood up from his chair, shook hands with his opponent and headed out of the tournament area to collect his payout.
Aliaksandr Hirs got his last 4,000,000 into the middle on the flop reading and was called by Andrii Novak.
Both players held top pair, but it was Novak who had the lead. Hirs turned over , and Novak held .
The turn was the and the river the , to complete the win for Novak with a full house, as Hirs departed the tournament room just short of the chip bagging process.
Day 1C chip leader Hadi Khordbin got involved into a bigger pot with new arrival Gor Kazaryan and check-shoved all in foe what appeared to be around 9 million after a flop of when facing a bet of 2.0 million by Kazaryan from one seat over. The snap-call of Kazaryan followed and that was a bad sign for Khordbin.
Hadi Khordbin:
Gor Kazaryan:
Khordbin needed running hearts or one of the last two remaining aces in the deck to avoid the elimination, and his outs were reduced to just two after the turn. The fell on the river and that sealed his fate.