Philippe Garnier's tournament has come to an abrupt end after a clash with Zigmas Pekarskas didn't exactly go to plan.
Garnier was down to around 10 big blinds and shoved all-in from the button with the . The raise folded out the small blind, but Pekarskas called in the big blind with . A nine on the flop improved Pekarskas to a pair, and when the turn and rive came the and it was game over for Garnier.
Kamil Paluszkiewicz has caught plenty of lucky cards during this tournament, but his luck finally run out a few moments ago.
Paluszkiewicz found himself all-in preflop with and racing against Dutchman Alexander Koops' . It was a race he would ultimately lose as the board by the river read to send Paluszkiewicz and leave us with only 34 players in the hunt for the £43,000 first place prize.
Heins Kalde is up to 280,000 after winning a big pot from Roderick MacNeil.
The chips went flying into the middle on a flop, with Kalde all-in for 121,500 chips. MacNeil revealed the for top pair, which was obliterated by the of Kalde. The completed the board and the pot was slid to Kalde.
Fresh from doubling through Roderick MacNeil, Heins Kalde opened to 16,000 from the hijack seat. Alexander Koops called from the cutoff, then Jens Eisner squeezed all-in for 87,000 in total from the button. Both blinds stepped out of the way, putting the action back on Kalde.
Kalde announced call, Koops folded and the cards turned onto their backs.
Eisner:
Kalde:
The flop was followed into view by the and the and Eisner doubled.
He may have started the day as the overwhelming chip leader but Daniel Chutrov is now in the thick of it with 170,000 chips.
Chutrov raised and then called when Zoltan Boszormenyi three-bet all-in for 93,500 in total. Boszormenyi turned over and was narrowly ahead of Chutrov's .
The flop gifted Chutrov outs to a flush draw in addition to his overcards, with the turn giving him more outs to a chopped pot. The was not one of that plethora of cards that would have helped his holding and Boszormenyi doubled though him.
Ramunas Granskas doubled through Babak Movazzafi and is back up past the 200,000 chip barrier.
As most of the hands are doing at the moment, the chip went into the middle preflop with Granskas holding the advantage with versus . Movazzafi began calling for a three when the flop fell but the turn was to pips off being the . Pleas for a three continued and went unheard as the improved Granskas to an unnecessary full house and he let out a loud "Yessssss!" and held onto the "s" to end up sounding much like a snake!
. The raise folded out the small blind, but Pekarskas called in the big blind with 
. A nine on the 
flop improved Pekarskas to a pair, and when the turn and rive came the 
and 
it was game over for Garnier.
. It was a race he would ultimately lose as the board by the river read 
for top pair, which was obliterated by the 
of Kalde. The 
flop was followed into view by the 
flop gifted Chutrov outs to a flush draw in addition to his overcards, with the 
turn giving him more outs to a chopped pot. The 
but the turn was to pips off being the 
improved Granskas to an unnecessary full house and he let out a loud "Yessssss!" and held onto the "s" to end up sounding much like a snake!
