Maksim "MAMOHT_T" Viktorovich raised to 14,000 in the hijack and action folded around to Arsenii "josef_shvejk" Karmatckii, who three-bet shoved for 166,500 in the big blind. Viktorovich called.
Arsenii "josef_shvejk" Karmatckii:
Maksim "MAMOHT_T" Viktorovich:
Karmatckii had Viktorovich dominated as the cards were shown and the flop came to give both players trips. The turn meant Viktorovich had six outs to a chop as well as 11 more to either a flush or a full house, but Karmatckii held as the river fell to complete the runout.
The field has grown to 203 with play reaching the third break of the day, meaning the $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool has officially been exceeded. Late registration ends in just over two hours, and the field is expected to continue to climb throughout that timeframe.
Here's another update on some players' stacks with Level 9 having begun just seconds before the break. Sam "Str8$$$Homey" Greenwood finds himself atop the leader board with a stack of 1.35 million, while Preben "prebz" Stokkan is in second place with a stack of 1.27 million.
Ryhor "Grisha1983" Karapanau opened to 12,000 in middle position and Ole "wizowizo" Schemion three-bet to 36,000 in the cutoff. "THEMOS17" cold four-bet all in for 167,600 on the button and action folded back to Schemion, who called to send the two off to the races.
"THEMOS17":
Ole "wizowizo" Schemion:
Schemion was out in front with a chance at a knockout and saw nothing more than a pair of sevens come on a jack-high runout of to win with queens up, knocking "THEMOS17" out of the tournament and securing their bounty as a result.
"hotmark777" raised to 13,200 in early position and saw action folded to around to Sam "Str8$$$Homey" Greenwood in the small blind, who three-bet to 48,000. "hotmark777" four-bet shoved for 223,500 and Greenwood called.
"hotmark777":
Sam "Str8$$$Homey" Greenwood:
The two were off to the races and "hotmark777" hit a king on the flop . However, Greenwood picked up a flush draw and found himself with 11 outs to get the knockout. The turn was safe for "hotmark777," but the river improved Greenwood to a set of queens and sent "hotmark777" to the showers.
Rafael "GM_VALTER" Moraes was in middle position and raised to 10,000. Mike "SirWatts" Watson three-bet to 27,500 in the cutoff and Francisco "Tomatee" Benitez cold four-bet to 70,000 in the small blind. Moraes folded and Watson called, taking action heads up to a flop of . Benitez made a continuation-bet of 52,800 and Watson called.
The turn was and Benitez jammed for just over 300,000 effective. Watson called all in.
Mike "SirWatts" Watson:
Francisco "Tomatee" Benitez:
Watson could not lose, finding himself needing only to fade a five for a chop. He did so as the river came to score him the double, leaving Benitez under 100,000 after ht the pot was shipped Watson's way.
Hand #1: Action folded around to Ryhor "Grisha1983" Karapanau on the button and he opened to 10,000. Pieter "XMorphineX" Aerts three-bet to 45,000 in the small blind and Karapanau four-bet shoved for 344,100. Aerts called.
Aerts found his tens ahead of Karapnau's sevens and they stayed there as the board ran out to score him the knockout.
"XMorphineX"
Hand #2: Karapanau re-entered and was seated in the same seat five hands later. He raised to 10,000 under the gun and action folded around to "3DTemujiN" in the big blind, who defended. The flop came and both players checked.
"3DTemujiN" led out for 18,150 on the turn and Karapanau raised to 50,050. "3DTemujiN" called to bring the river on board. "3DTemujiN" checked and Karapanau jammed for 189,300, a bet of roughly one-and-a-half times the size of the pot. "3DTemujiN" went into the tank and eventually called.
Karapanau showed for a pair of aces and it wound up to be no good as "3DTemujiN" had called correctly with , winning the pot for the double with their flopped two pair.
Karapanau was down to 1,300 and lost it on the next hand in the big blind, resulting in firing a third bullet and being seated at a new table.