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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
According to a colleague, and also confirmed by Dara O'Kearney who watch the action unfold from one seat over, Peter Harkes had aces cracked to join the rail earlier in the level. Harkes raidsed to 3,500 in the cutoff and David Tobi called in the big blind. On the flop, Tobi bet 5,000 and Harkes raised to 12,500 with a stack of 30,000. Tobi called and the appeared on the turn.
Tobi now checked, then called the shove of Harkes with for the straight to see the pocket aces of Harkes down the drain. The river brought no split pot, and that was it for Harkes.