The field has been reduced to fewer than 150 hopefuls and some former big stacks are no longer in contention.
The field has been reduced to fewer than 150 hopefuls and some former big stacks are no longer in contention.
Daniel Dvoress opened the action with a raise to 154,000 and Ramon Kropmanns on the button clicked it up to 595,000, which Dvoress called. Both players checked the ![]()
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flop and Dvoress then checked the
on the turn. Kropmanns bet 980,000 only for Dvoress to check-raise, making it 2,065,000 to go and picking up a call.
The
fell on the river and Dvoress moved all-in for an effective 3,348,837, as that's what Kropmanns had behind. He received the call by the Brazilian with ![]()
for a pair of queens to reveal ![]()
for the nut flush as the winning hand.
The 146 remaining players have been sent for another 5-minute break.
In a battle cutoff versus button, the remaining 1.5 million of Paul Hoefer went into the middle and he faced partypoker ambassador Joao Simao in the following showdown.
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Only one club and no broadway cards appeared on the ![]()
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board, which sent Hoefer to the rail shortly after the action resumed.
Martin Brinkmann was sitting in the small blind with Marton Czuczor behind him in the big blind. They both had their chips over the line with Czuczor at risk with the shorter stack.
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The board ran out ![]()
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for Brinkmann to flop top pair and improve to two pair while Czuczor bricked his flopped flush draw to stay alive.
Level: 16
Blinds: 40,000/80,000
Ante: 10,000
Diego Cuellar was all-in for just shy of 1.4 million with the ![]()
and Vlad Martynenko looked him up with the ![]()
. Those cards were live but didn't connect on a board of ![]()
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Martynenko was short and at risk right after, holding the ![]()
against Cuellar's ![]()
. An eight high flop all but sealed his fate but he rivered the nut flush.
Joao Simao leads the pack with an above-average stack and Jaime Staples has further increased his stack to achieve the same feat. In the meanwhile, Jason Koon and Dzmitry Urbanovich both bumped their shorter stacks and remain in contention with 132 players left.