Out of a field of 154 entries, only 115 players remain towards the end of the sixth level. Those who departed recently can be found below.
Out of a field of 154 entries, only 115 players remain towards the end of the sixth level. Those who departed recently can be found below.
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, some 8,000 chips were in the middle and Parker Talbot bet 3,800. Felipe Boianovsky called in the cutoff and the
on the river was checked by Talbot, who had less than one-third of the starting stack behind. Boianovsky bet 17,000 and the PokerStars ambassador sigh-folded.
"You never fold those to me," Fabiano Kovalski joked, as both had been battling frequently on the live and especially online poker tables previously.
"Was I playing against you in that hand?" a semi-serious Talbot replied with a dry smile on his face.
The chips went into the middle before the flop as a short-stacked Turbo Nguyen ended up at risk against Joni Jouhkimainen.
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The classic flip went to Nguyen as he got there on the ![]()
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runout.
"Now I can actually start playing poker," Nguyen joked. "I told her we gonna do another five hours massage," he said in table chat, referring to the massage therapist.
There was 4,100 in the pot. Brian Kim was in the small blind against Matas Cimbolas in the big blind.
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. Kim checked and Cimbolas bet 4,200. Kim put in the check-raise to 14,500, putting Cimbolas in the tank. Cimbolas folded and the chips went to Kim.
It was a three-bet pot with Pedro Gois Neves in the small blind against Mikita Badziakouski in the hijack.
The pot was 15,200 heading to the flop of ![]()
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. Neves continued for 3,800 and was called by Badziakouski.
The
was the turn and Neves bet 7,600. Badziakouski called.
The river came the
and Neves moved all in for 22,700 effective. Badziakouski went deep into the tank, cracking his knuckles. After several minutes, he called for his tournament life. Neves turned over ![]()
for an overpair, beating Badziakouski's ![]()
(top pair) and eliminating him from the tournament.
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flop, Manig Loeser checked and then called a bet of 2,600 by Francois Billard. The
on the turn was checked by Loeser once more and he called another bet of 4,200 by Billard. Both then checked down the
on the river and Loeser flipped over the ![]()
for the nut flush, which ended up winning the pot.
Ivan Deyra raised to 1,200 and a short-stacked Alexandros Kolonias then pushed all-in for around 5,000. Henrik Brockmann also committed his last 12,000 and change before Sebastien Aube went all-in over the top, forcing out initial raiser Deyra in the process.
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flop left Brockmann on the ropes while Kolonias was alive with the open-ended straight draw. Nothing changed on the
turn but the
river only improved Aube to a full house.
Kitty Kuo raised to 1,300 from early position and was called by Sam Greenwood in the big blind.
The flop came ![]()
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and Kuo continued for 3,000. Greenwood called.
The
was the turn and action went check check.
The river was the
and action checked through again. Greenwood showed ![]()
to take down the pot.