The flop was down , and Garri Tevosov bet 350,000 from the small blind and saw Andrey Pateychuk make the call in the cutoff. The turn brought the , and Pateychuk called another bet from Tevosov, this time for 450,000. Both players checked after the river was revealed to be the , and Pateychuk tabled for trip jacks after Tevosov had flipped over pocket sevens.
After defending his big blind against Roman Verenko, Alexey Vandyshev got his stack in after a flop of and showed the for a straight and flush draw. Verenko had the and the turn and river brought no help for Vandyshev.
Matous Houzvicek put his tournament life on the line with the flop down and was called by Saar Wilf.
Houzvicek had a pair of tens with , and Wilf needed to hit with the flush draw as he held . The turn changed nothing, but when the river card was revealed to be the , Wilf celebrated as he hit the nut flush and scored an elimination.
The cards of Aleksandr Gofman were already in the muck and Michael Sklenicka confirmed that Gofman had held pocket kings against his . The board of gave Sklenicka a pair of Aces and Gofman was left very short.
Soon after, Gofman was all in for the last 380,000 and Maksim Haitsiukevich was at risk for 2,385,000, Pavel Kireev in the small blind had both opponents comfortably covered to create a three-way showdown.
Aleksandr Gofman:
Maksim Haitsiukevich:
Pavel Kireev:
The board ran out and Kireev more than doubled, while Gofman's dream to defend the title in Sochi was crushed in brutal fashion. Earlier in the day he had already lost kings to ace-queen as well.
The board was down , and Maxim Lykov was facing a big decision from under the gun. After Lykov had checked on the river, Andrey Chernokoz bet 1,850,000 into the 2,800,000 pot. Lykov had around 3,700,000 behind him and went into the tank.
Lykov sat thinking for a couple of minutes but eventually decided to call.
Chernokoz tabled for top pair top kicker and Lykov instantly mucked to leave his opponent to pick up the 6.5m pot.
Lykov was left with 1,800,000, and within a couple of minutes, his name appeared in the exits lists in level 19.
On the turn of a board with more than 2 million in the middle, Mikhail Galitskiy made it 700,000 from the cutoff and Daniyar Aubakirov shoved, Galitskiy snap-called.
Mikhail Galitskiy:
Daniyar Aubakirov:
Galitskiy was secured the double for massive 5.285 million while the meaningless on the river completed the board.
Chin Wei Lim sent Vitaliy Li and Kirill Kruglov to the rail, he held up in a three-way showdown with jacks against tens and ace-king.