A short-stacked Kevin "KRab42" Rabichow three-bet shoved for fewer than 20 blinds out of the small blind and was called by Andrey "Kot_Spartac" Kotelnikov and "AntonKaizerr" on the button.
The two active players checked down the 
board and neither of them could beat the 
of Rabichow, who tripled back into contention.
In a battle of the blinds on the table of Ben "Spraggy" Spragg, "jungbedi95" raised to 8,000 just before the blinds had gone up and "DingeBrinker" called in the big blind. On the 
flop, "jungbedi95" check-raised to 16,000 and then bet the turn for 14,000 into 50,000.
"jungbedi95" then check-called the shove of "DingeBrinker" for 116,285 on the 
with 
for the nuts, catching their opponent with 
.
Level: 5
Blinds: 1,250/2,500
Ante: 325
"Jamil11" min-raised to 4,000 and Fintan "easywithaces" hand three-bet to 13,000, which big stack "Chus1979" on the button called. "Jamil11" made it three ways to the 
flop and the action checked to Hand, who bet 13,200. "Chus1979" called whereas the initial preflop aggressor folded.
After the turn, Hand checked and folded when facing a bet of 35,200 to drop below half the starting stack.
Pavel "silentm0de" Plesuv had already more than tripled the starting stack and raise-called the shove of a short-stacked "KGB0569" to create the following showdown.
"KGB0569": 
Pavel "silentm0de" Plesuv: 
The board ran out 
and the short stack doubled. However, the fortune ran out shortly after when they ran with into the 
of "M.Flush.N" who made a full house for good measure on the 
board.
The other current big stack is vitkauskas98 from the Ukraine who faces Thomas "MarToMchat" Boivin, Aleksejs "APonakov" Ponakovs and Luis "luisdono" Dono.
The early minefields in this tournament saw several big names fall as among others, Fedor "CrownUpGuy" Holz, Matthias "iambest2" Eibinger, Scott "Aggro Santos" Margereson, Bruno "great dant" Volkmann and Marc "14alonso14" Macdonnell all bowed out.
Level: 4
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 250
Ben "Spraggy" Spragg has suffered a rough start into the tournament and lost more than half of his stack already.
In a recent hand, Spragg opened to 3,520 and was called by Ramiro "ramastar88" Petrone in the big blind, who had just chipped up with a set of jacks the previous hand. Petrone defended the small blind and check-called a 3,277 bet on the 
flop. He then bet the turn for 8,878 and Spragg called before paying off 26,949 on the river.
Petrone tabled 
for trips sixes as Spragg dropped down further.
Kevin "KRab42" Rabichow faced a raise to 4,000 by Anton "anteen" Siden to 4,000 in the last hand before the break and Andrey "kKot_Spartac" Kotelnikov three-bet to 11,960. Rabichow made it 34,400 to go from the small blind and Siden was the only caller.
On the flop both invested 28,456 and the turn paired the board as well as provided a second flushdraw. Siden bet 47,958 to pick up a call from Rabichow and Siden emptied the clip by jamming the 
river as Rabichow check-folded.
The first scheduled five-minute break has commenced once all the current hands are completed and the tournament info shows 676 players out of 686 entries remaining.
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