Neshan Khourshoudian raised to 25,000 in the cutoff and Milad Oghabian in the small blind simply moved all-in with the covering stack. Kacper Pyzara in the big blind had a decision and made the call for fewer than that while Khourshoudian folded.
Kacper Pyzara:
Milad Oghabian:
The superior pair prevailed on the and Pyzara jumped to the rail for a brief happy dance before he then had to push the chips to the dealer to have them counted. His double up was for 391,000, which puts Pyzara back above the average.
Four ways to the flop, Mantas Bagocius got his short stack of 109,000 in out of the blinds. Georges Hanna folded while Gabriel Akiki and Hulya Seckin in the cutoff called. Akiki bet the turn for 110,000 to receive a call from Seckin and then bet the river for another 110,000.
Seckin now folded and Bagocius tabled for a pair and missed straight draw, which Akiki had beat with the for aces and tens.
Dimitrii Motorov was at risk for 186,000 with the and Roland Rokita looked him up with the superior stack and the . There was no ace and insufficient broadway cards on the board as Motorov scored a double.
Moments later, Jacques Torbey vanished from another table and that brought the field down to the last 126 contenders.
In a standard preflop coin flip, Sergey Bortsov was at risk with the . Ivan Sakharov had the suited overcards with the and saw his opponent made quads on the .
Both players now have more than 40 big blinds at their disposal with 132 players remaining.
With around 450,000 in the middle and the completed board showing , Kacper Pyzara checked and Artur Martirosian bet 365,000. Pyzara was sent into the tank and he eventually made the call.
Martirosian rolled over the for fours full of jacks and Pyzara flashed for aces up before paying off the rising Russian star.
Apparently, Kilian Desnos has been eliminated in a massive pot when he jammed preflop for 800,000 in the one pocket pair he could not beat. Benefiting from limping aces was Muharrem Atsiz, who currently sits on a massive stack of more than 2.4 million and the clear chip lead.