The following hand occurred just before the break. With 50,000 in the middle and the turn showing , Ramez Haddad bet 15,000 out of the small blind. Lukasz Szymon Grossmann then moved all-in for 35,400 and Haddad was in the tank. He eventually folded and Grossmann showed , Haddad flashed his mucked .
A field of 166 unique players and five re-entries has emerged thus far and 162 players remain in contention as the first scheduled 15-minute break has commenced.
Romania's Ion Stanica has chipped up further ad he was paid off for 30,000 on the river. His opponent was unable to beat the for tens full by Stanica, who approaches nearly three times the starting stack.
Sonia-Veronika Shashikhina defended against Nandor Solyom and opted to check the flop. Solyom made it 7,000 to go for Shashikhina to call and she checked in the dark prior to the turn. Solyom now made it 18,700 to go and that won the pot right there.
Vyacheslav Balaev has re-entered while Andrija Robovic, Anatolii Zyrin, and Nikita Kuznetsov are all new entries. Kuznetsov comes fresh off a massive score in the GGPoker WSOP Online $5,000 Main Event, in which he finished in third place for more than $1.4 million.
Ran Azor opened to 1,500 and earned three callers including Katherina Aristotelos. Remi Wyrzykiewicz then made it 14,000 to go out of the big blind and Aristotelos was the only caller.
The duo checked down the entire board of and Wyrzykiewicz tabled , which Aristotelos had beat with the .
The cards of his opponent were already in the muck as the stack of Sakis Adrianopoulos was counted. He had just doubled for around half the starting stack with , as the pair of kings prevailed on a board of . That put the Greek back above the starting stack and right back into contention.