Dmitry "yurasov1990" Yurasov opened to 5,500 in the cutoff and Michael "merla888" Gathy then three-bet to 15,000 on the button with 70,841 behind. Yurasov moved all in and Gathy called to set up the following showdown.
Michael "merla888" Gathy: 
Dmitry "yurasov1990" Yurasov: 
Gathy needed an ace and got exactly that in the window of the 
board.
Ole "wizowizo" Schemion min-raised to 5,000 from the cutoff and called a three-bet to 18,750 by Joao "Naza114" Vieira in the big blind.
On a flop of 
, Vieira bet 10,256 and Schemion raised to 23,750 for Vieira to then move all in for moe than 72,000. Schemion wasted little time before calling and the cards were turned over.
Joao "Naza114" Vieira: 
Ole "wizowizo" Schemion: 
Schemion had outflopped aces once more with two pair and held up again on the 
turn and 
river.
Gediminas "Gedis92" Uselis raised to 5,275 and Dmitry "yurasov1990" Yurasov three-bet to 13,750 on the button. Uselis called and check-shoved the 
flop for 56,812 total, which Yurasov quickly called.
Gediminas "Gedis92" Uselis: 
Dmitry "yurasov1990" Yurasov:
The 
turn and 
river provided no help to Uselis as Yurasov continued his ascend on the leaderboard.
Also on the rail is WCOOP leaderboard contender Rinat "Zapahzamazki" Lyapin.
Hungary's "kZhh" saw the stack reduced to all but 769 chips when their flopped set of queens with 
was no good, as Artem "veeea" Vezhenkov hit running cards for a straight with on a 
board.
One hand later, "kZhh" was all in and Dominik "Bounatirou" Nitsche dealt the final blow with he won the entire pot with 
versus 
after spiking a straight on the 
board. Vezhenkov had called a raise preflop by Nitsche and check-called the flop, then check-folded the river.
Level: 9
Blinds: 1,250/2,500
Ante: 325
In the last hand before the break, "Sintoras" raised to 4,200 on the button and was called by "kZhh" in the small blind and Sami "Lrslzk" Kelopuro in the big blind. Only Kelopuro check-called a bet of 3,384 on the 
flop and did so again for 15,651 on the 
turn.
Kelopuro check-called another 39,128 on the 
river and "Sintoras" won the pot with 
for a straight.
Only 46 players out of 61 entries remain as the third scheduled five-minute break of the day has kicked off.
Down to just 11 and a half blinds, Pascal "Päffchen" Hartmann was all in from the cutoff and picked up a call by Mike "SirWatts" Watson on the button.
Pascal "Päffchen" Hartmann:
Mike "SirWatts" Watson:
The board ran out 
and that spelled the end for Hartmann, he joined Jakob "Succeeed" Miegel on the rail who was ousted moments prior on a different table.
Miegel was all in for half the starting stack preflop with against the of Sami "Lrslzk" Kelopuro and both hit a full house on the 
runout.
Watson then lost a small portion of his stack to Dmitry "yurasov1990" Yurasov who had the best hand with one hand later on a board of 
.
"MaxHendrix" had pulled further ahead and was the runaway chip leader on their table when Joao "Naza114" Vieira raised the button to 4,000. "ArtHouse2011" three-bet jammed for 39,566 in the small blind and Alexandros "Pwndidi" Theologis called all-in for 31,331 in the big blind, Vieira called as the biggest stack of the trio.
Alexandros "Pwndidi" Theologis:
"ArtHouse2011":
Joao "Naza114" Vieira:
The board ran out 
and "ArtHouse2011" essentially tripled while Theologis was eliminated.
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