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Level: 29
Blinds: 100,000/200,000
Ante: 25,000
Ole "wizowizo" Schemion opened the button to 320,000 and Wiktor "Iimitless" Malinowski defended his big blind.
Malinowski check-raised a bet from 358,800 to 1,002,768 after the ![]()
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came on the flop and Schemion called.
Malinowski fired out for 600,384 after the
came on the turn and got a call.
Malinowski checked after the
completed the board on the river and Schemion bet enough to cover his opponent's stack of 2,402,396.
Malinowski snap-called and turned over ![]()
. He won the hand with a flush after Schemion turned over ![]()
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It's been mostly small ball since the action resumed from the break.
Players are on a five-minute break.
"megaliciou$$$" will have more than half the chips in play when the action resumes.
Ole "wizowizo" Schemion min-raised the button and got calls from Wiktor "limitless" Malinowski in the small blind and "megaliciou$$$" in the big blind.
It checked around to Schemion after the ![]()
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came on the flop and he bet 320,000. "megaliciou$$$" called and Malinowski folded.
"megaliciou$$$" then bet 640,000 after the
put trips on the board on the turn. Schemion made it 1,420,000 and "megaliciou$$$" called.
The
completed the board on the river to put three diamonds on the board. "megaliciou$$$" bet 1,350,360 and won the pot after Schemion folded.
A few small pots were played where Ole "wizowizo" Shemion temporarily took the chip lead before handing it back to "megaliciou$$$".
The action is down to three-handed after the elimination of Steve "Mr. Tim Caum" O'Dwyer in fourth place for $120,295.
Ole "wizowizo" Schemion opened to 320,000 from the cutoff and called a jam from O'Dwyer on the button to 2,444,322.
Ole "wizowizo" Schemion: ![]()
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Steve "Mr. Tim Caum" O'Dwyer: ![]()
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Schemion's eights held throughout the hand with the ![]()
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running out on the board.

Level: 28
Blinds: 80,000/160,000
Ante: 20,000