Navid Samavati jammed for the last eight big blinds and from under the gun. Johan Guilbert made the call with pocket nines and hit a nine right in the window to leave his opponent drawing dead on the turn.
One table over, Fadi Alakzam bet the flop and turn for 155,000, which Kasparas Klezys called. Alakzam bet the river for 350,000 and Klezys raised to 900,000. A reluctant fold by Alakzam followed and he exposed the by sheer chance, Klezys returned the favour and flashed the .
The remaining 29 players are now on a 45-minute dinner break.
Artur Martirosian raised and earned three callers including Silma Macalou and Kacper Pyzara in the blinds. The flop was checked to Macalou, who bet 250,000. Only Pyzara called and he then checked again the turn. Macalou bet 265,000 for Pyzara to check-raise to 1 million total, earning a call by the Frenchman.
Pyzara then checked the river and Macalou bet 500,000 into the large pot. The tank-call by his opponent followed and Macalou rolled over for the nut flush to scoop the large pot.
Heads-up to the flop, Erdal Gulseven checked in the big blind and Mantas Nanartavicius bet 225,000 on the button. Gulseven check-raised to 590,000 and Nanartavicius gave him a stare down before making the call.
Gulseven bet the turn for 640,000 and forced a fold from fellow big stack Nanartavicius
Artur Martirosian defended the big blind against a cutoff raise by Kacper Pyzara and then made a move by jamming the river. Pyzara snap-called as his could only be beaten by one hand combination. The ace-four for a pair of fours was not it and Martirosian had to fork over 615,000 for the double.
On the tail end of a , Navid Samavati faced a bet of 900,000 by Zorlu Er. A deep tank followed as Samavati eventually called for more than half of his remaining stack.
Er rolled over the for the king-high straight and Viktor Ustimov stated "you are the boss". Samavati dropped to ten blinds while Er joined the biggest stacks on the final four tables.
Soon after losing a bigger chunk of his stack, Andreas Christoforou took a flip with against the pocket tens of Viktor Ustimov. The latter prevailed and Christoforou was eliminated in 32nd place.
Rokas Neiberka followed after he defended the big blind against Lachezar Petkov. Neiberka check-raised from 50,000 to 150,000 on the flop, which Petkov called. Neiberka then check-shoved the turn and Petkov called.
Rokas Neiberka:
Lachezar Petkov:
The river counterfeited the two pair of Neiberka and he had to settle for 31st place.
A preflop raising war saw a squeeze to 350,000 in front of Silma Macalou on the button. Saman Nakhjavani then four-bet to 800,000 to force out the initial raiser. Macalou was in the tank and both started some table chat. The clock was called and the Frenchman jammed, Nakhjavani eventually called it off.
Saman Nakhjavani:
Silma Macalou:
On a board of , Nakhajavani earned a split pot and Macalou jumped out of his seat in agony, needing a short break while to cool down.
Navid Samavati ended up all in and at risk with the . Andreas Christoforou looked him up with the but it was Samavati that got there on the runout. He doubled for 1.09 million and put a dent into Christoforou's stack.