Sergei "Futti18" Koliakov came along out of the big blind against the under-the-gun raise of "biszibosz" and then bet the turn before jamming the river. "biszibisz" made the call with and caught the Russian bluffing with for the nutflush blocker.
A late surge of entries nearly ensured that the guarantee was reached but they came up short with 184 total entries. All remaining 74 players are now on their next scheduled 5-minute break.
Joao "Naza114" Vieira opened the action with a raise to 28,840 in the hijack and Gianluca "Tankanza" Speranza thtee-bet the button to 88,340. Vieira four-bet jammed for 513,621 and was called instantly by Speranza.
On another table shortly after, Naoya "nkeyno" Kihara open-shoved the small blind into the big blind of Thiago "KKremate" Crema, who called all-in for 95,530 with the . Kihara was trailing with but found help on the runout.
Tomi "elmerixx" Brouk was on his way to the virtual re-entry desk when his was at risk against the of Ole "wizowizo" Schemion. However, the board provided the overcard on the river.
Daniel "Oxota" Dvoress busted his third and final bullet shortly after against Orpen "OrpTheTurk" Kisacikoglu, who he had battled with in the live poker High Rollers throughout the last few years.
Dvoress was ahead preflop with versus but Kisacikoglu got there on the board.
The same table also featured the late arrival of Steve "Mr. Tim Caum" O'Dwyer, who doubled "Wildace_hun" with versus preflop, the board delivered no king. He was down to just over one big blind and busted the next hand.
Pieter "XMorphineX" Aerts defended his big blind against a min-raise by Andras "probirs" Nemeth and check-raised a bet on the flop from 21,780 to 66,000, which Nemeth called. They checked the turn and Aerts check-called a shove for 177,969 on the river with only to get shown the by Nemeth.
Nemeth min-raised one hand later and Charlie "Epiphany77" Carrel called. Aerts jammed the small blind, Nemeth reraised to 84,000 and then folded to the isolation shove by Carrel.
Pieter "XMorphineX" Aerts:
Charlie "Epiphany77" Carrel:
The board sent Aerts to the rail on bullet number one.
Within two hands, Rafael "GM_VALTER" Moraes turned his late entry into a double up and then knocked out Luke "Bit2Easy" Reeves in the next hand to get the best of the Brit in consecutive hands.
The first hand was a flip with for Moraes and for Reeves, the board let Moraes double.
One hand later they battled it out in cutoff versus button Moraes min-raised to 20,000 and called a three-bet to 58,000. As the flop showed , Moraes check-shoved with the superior stack and was called by Reeves:
Luke "Bit2Easy" Reeves:
Rafael "GM_VALTER" Moraes:
The turn and river sent Reeves out, his vacant seat was shortly after filled by Naoya "nkeyno" Kihara.