Markus Heikkila open-shoved for around 150,000 from under the gun and the action folded to Gabriel Gavrila in the big blind. The Romanian called and the cards were tabled.
Markus Heikkila:
Gabriel Gavrila:
The board of sent the next player to the rail and the last four tables were set.
After another elimination on the feature table, two further players were eliminated.
The exit of Alexandru Sautner was an interesting one for sure. Eugen Chiva had raised to 33,000 and Sautner tabled his cards already in pocket tens, thinking it was a short stack all in. He continued the hand with his cards face up.
The flop came king-high and Chiva bet 54,000. After thinking about it for long, Sautner shoved and said his opponent would be bluffing. Instead, Chiva snap-called with king-eight and knocked out the fellow Romanian.
The first feature table casualty was Michal Sobanski. Nikita Malinovskiy had raised to 35,000 and Sobanski shoved for 183,000 from one seat over. Malinovskiy called and was in good shape to eliminate an opponent.
Michal Sobanski:
Nikita Malinovskiy:
After a board of , Sobanski's tournament was over in 36th place.
Catalin Morariu open-shoved for around 260,000 and Jussi Perlinen called all in from one seat over, the rest of the table folded.
Jussi Perlinen:
Catalin Morariu:
"No spades please," Perlinen said, and then immediately felt the shock when the flop came . Neither the turn nor the river changed anything and Perlinen exited the tournament area.
Fresh off doubling through Cristian Tardea with versus , Adrian Stefan Calusaru then knocked out short stack Jonathan Spicer. The Brit had pushed for around 140,000 with the and Calusaru called with the .
The board came and ace-high stayed good to bust Spicer.
Krzysztof Idziak was left very short after losing with against the of Gordon Plomp. Idziak then pushed from under the gun and Nikita Malinovskiy called from a few seats over.
Krzysztof Idziak:
Nikita Malinovskiy:
The board came and Idziak was sent to the rail in 28th place.
The remaining 27 players have redrawn to the last three tables and were sent on a 15-minute break. When they return, they will finish the last two minutes and then go straight on for another two levels. Action will resume at approximately 10.15 p.m. local time.