Fabrice Soulier raised from the button and a short-stacked Hideki Takafuji shove din the small blind for just a few big blinds, which Soulier called.
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and that was it for Takafuji.
Fabrice Soulier raised from the button and a short-stacked Hideki Takafuji shove din the small blind for just a few big blinds, which Soulier called.
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and that was it for Takafuji.
Diego Zeiter and Xavier Rouayroux had build a pot already up to over 150,000. On a ![]()
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board, action was on Rouayroux and he checked. Zeiter shoved over 100,000 and Rouayroux snap-folded his hand.
The Swiss, who won a €2K side-event at the final EPT in Prague, moved up to 370,000 after the hand.
After Hoivold had opened from the hijack, Maria Ho committed her last 50,000 from the button with ![]()
. Hoivold called with ![]()
and remained in front after the ![]()
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flop. On the
turn, Ho took the lead with a pair of kings, but the river was a fourth heart to improve Hoivold to a flush and send Ho packing.
Ho was one of the last ones to receive the minimal reward of €7,580.
Liv Boeree had previously lost with kings against ace-king and then shoved for her last eight big blinds from the button with ![]()
. Sebastian Malec was in the big blind and called with ![]()
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and Boeree was eliminated over on the secondary feature table.
Hossein Ensan was moved over to the feature table not long ago and just called the shove of Raffaello Locatelli while sitting in the big blind. Locatelli had gotten his 15 big blinds in from the cutoff and had the slightly inferior kicker.
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, Locatelli headed to the payout desk while Ensan joined the big stacks after having started the day in the top 10 already.
Narcis-Gabriel Nedelcu shoved for his last 60,000 from early position with the ![]()
and Stefan Schillhabel called out of the big blind with ![]()
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and the pocket pair held up.
Then, Alexandru Papazian raised from the cutoff and fellow Romanian Cosmin Mihai Petrica shoved from the button for around 65,000. Papazian called to put his countryman at risk.
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and that was it for Petrica. Tsugunari Toma followed right after, having lost an above-average stack.
There are just 114 players remaining, as several other short stacks have been eliminated. They all received €7,580 for their efforts.
Jeff Hakim raised to 10,000 from late position and faced a three-bet to 28,000 from Hannes Speiser in the cutoff, which Hakim then four-bet to 78,000. Speiser reluctantly called and the flop came ![]()
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and Hakim continued for 55,000, which Speiser called. The
on the turn was checked through, and the
river completed the board.
Hakim moved all in for an effective 136,000, as that's what Speiser had left. The Austrian gave it plenty of thought and the clock was called on him. "Do you have kings or aces?" Speiser asked and eventually let go before the one minute ran down.
Jean-Jacques Zeitoun wasn't able to enjoy the chips from his earlier double-up for long, as he just had to exit the tournament area. Holding ![]()
, Zeitoun shoved all in on a ![]()
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flop. Shakhabiddin Muradov held ![]()
and instantly called to put Zeitoun in a world of hurt.
The
turn and
river didn't help the Frenchman, who will have to settle for a min-cash of €7,580.
In the other part of the tournament area, Rocco Palumbo was seen making his way to the exit as well.
Romain Nardin started the day with less than ten big blinds but found two quick double-ups in succession to get himself to a workable stack.
First, Nardin doubled with ![]()
through Rocco Palumbo's ![]()
when he spiked an ace on the flop. A couple of hands later Nardin was all in with ![]()
against Tsugunari Toma's ![]()
and held up to double again.