In a battle of the Romanians, George Dimuleasa faced a raise to 3,500 by Bogdan Petrascu in the cutoff and moved all in with his short stack of 16,300 from the button. The blinds folded and Petrascu called to put his countryman at risk of elimination.
George Dimuleasa:
Bogdan Petrascu:
The board ran out and the pair held up to eliminate Dimuleasa. There were several other casualties at the same time with the dealers announcing a seat open pretty much every minute.
Alexandru Papazian limped in from the hijack and one opponent called before Cosmin Cimpeanu then raised to 7,500. Papazian squeezed to 16,600 and that forced folds from both opponents. Papazian has slowly but surely built his stack and now got more than average.
Alexandre de Zutter raised to 3,500 and Elad Itzhak Bentolia moved all in for 21,700 from the cutoff. The action folded back to Florin Ionut Ilies in the big blind and he called, de Zutter let go after brief consideration. Bentolia had the and Ilies showed , spiking an ace on the flop to secure the knockout.
The remaining 173 players have been sent into a 15-minute break and the live stream table will switch when they return to the felt, then include Daiva Barauskaite.
After a raise to 2,700 by Yordan Petrov, Yoram Ben Chamo moved all in for 21,300 and Lukas Bulcsu four-bet all in. Petrov gave it some thought and called for slightly less than Bulcsu to put himself at risk also.
Yoram Ben Chamo:
Yordan Petrov:
Lukas Bulcsu:
The board ran out and Ben Chamo turned a set to triple up, while Petrov was eliminated. Bulcsu kept basically the same stack after getting the chips back off Petrov.
Another three-way all in saw no seat open, because Rachid Karidi as shortest stack tripled up for 18,700. He was at risk with the and faced the of Vasile Claudiu Sabou and the of Ville Malinen.
The board came and Malinen was reduced to all but 10,300.
During the dinner break, David Lappin was still hopeful and tweeted the following:
Back from dinner at the #unibetopen, hoping to short stack ninja my way out of the sub-20 zone and beyond! ##
— David K Lappin (@DKLAPPIN)
However, even after being moved to another table the Irishman was unable to spin up his stack and was among those to appear on the bustout list recently. Robbie van der Hejden and Imro Sendar were also sent to the rail, reducing the Dutch and Belgian line-up to 14 remaining.
The mystery of Mihai Manole's exit after dinner appears to be solved, as Jessy Marillaud reported about a major suckout he delivered to an opponent on the other side of the table just after dinner. His opponent in the big blind four-bet shoved with pocket aces and de Zutter looked him up with ace-king to improve thanks to a king on the flop and a king on the river.
Jessy Marillaud has been able to build his stack nicely and Jean-Michel Ploch finally doubled after shoving at least five times previously. His four-bet shove for 30,000 was called by Jonatan Koko with pocket nines on the button. Ploch had jacks in the big blind and held up.
and the pair held up to eliminate Dimuleasa. There were several other casualties at the same time with the dealers announcing a seat open pretty much every minute.
and Ilies showed 
, spiking an ace on the flop to secure the knockout.
and faced the 
of Ville Malinen.
and Malinen was reduced to all but 10,300.
turn and 
river for a four-card flush to double up.