Aleksandr Kinzhalov jammed his shorter stack and was called by Fadi Alakzam and Eli Saad. Both active players checked it down on the board and Alakzam tabled the . Saad had the and Kinzhalov grinned, then mucked. His were exposed as part of the all-in showdown rule and he departed in 71st place.
The ace-king of Nicolas Chouity were already in the muck as Miad Shakiba raked in the pot. Shakiba took the flip with and prevailed thanks to a board of .
Dimitrii Motorov departed right after as the early carnage brought yet another victim.
Mateusz Szymanski was eliminated by Ionel Anton when his for the second pair on the flop trailed versus . The turn bricked as did the river, sending Szymanski out in 67th place.
And in the very last hand before the break, Johan Guilbert completed his rout of Georgios Tsouloftas and sent the Cypriot to the rail, boosting his stack further.
The remaining 65 players are now on a scheduled 20-minute break and the T-1,000 chips will be raced off.
Johan Guilbert raised it up to get called by Karolis Ciudaras and the Frenchman joked "let's create a four million pot". Cuidaras checked the flop and then check-called the turn for 50,000. On the river, Ciudaras check-called for another 235,000 and Guilbert briefly flashed his cards, then mucked.
Ciudaras won the pot with for two pair and pulled ahead of Guilbert.
Garik Tamasian eventually lost the battle with his short stack and bowed out in 65th place.
Soon after a small pot emerged between Erdem Akmert and Bora Kurtulus. The latter check-called the river for 100,000 and Akmert won the pot with out of the big blind.
Aleksandr Gofman got his short stack in with the and was dominated by Kasparas Klezys with the . The board ran out and that spelled the end for Gofman. As a table broke, Engin Sezerer and Elie Saade departed in quick succession to reduce the field to the final 61 hopefuls.
On the three-way river of , Nikola Minkov bet 375,000 and Mikhail Ruslanov called all-in for 285,000, while Fadi Alakzam folded. Minkov revealed the for the top pair and Ruslanov was trying to muck. His was exposed and he headed to the rail.
At the same moment, Piotr Sowinski departed from one table over as well and the board was rushed away. Artur Martirosian claimed the stack of the Pole and provided the details as follows. Martirosian three-bet to 240,000 out of the big blind for Sowinski to call in the cutoff.
A triple barrel followed on the board for 100,000, 150,000 and the shove. Sowinski called with what appeared to have been but Martirosian had nailed a full house with .