Luciana Manolea entered late and quickly ran up her stack, but the seat that previously belonged to her is now empty. "I ran pretty hot," Tudor Purice admitted and didn't want to provide many further details. He just added "it was a three-bet pot and she had top pair."
Purice appears to be among the current chip leaders with more than four times the starting stack.
On the three-way turn of 
, Nandor Solyom bet 3,000 and then faced the raise of Linus Hjulstrom and the shove of Bjorn Hoff Hansen. Solyom folded and Hjulstrom called with the 
only to see Hansen turn over 
for the nut straight. A ten would have provided a split pot, but the river was the 
instead.
Hansen doubled for 27,575 to send Hjulstrom back below starting stack.
Jose Luis Capdevila raised to 2,000 and called a three-bet to 5,000 by Marius Agica to see a flop of 
. Capdevila checked and called a bet of 5,000 by Agica before the 
turn was checked through. On the 
river, Capdevila checked once more and Agica bet 12,500.
Agica bet 12,500 and Capdevila moved all in and Agica sighed, but eventually called it off for another 21,000 behind to see Capdevila roll over 
for the flush. Agica mucked and headed to the rail.
"It is a grind, as usual" Unibet Poker ambassador Daiva Byrne said and she is on a short stack grind for some time now. Below are further assorted counts.
Ovidiu Roman bet the 
flop for 2,500 out of the big blind and Bogdan Domnitanu called in the hijack. Josef Machiach raised to 6,200 on the button to force out Roman, while Domnitanu called. On the turn, Machiach bet 7,400 when it was checked to him and picked up a call before the 
on the river was checked.
Machiach showed 
for tens and nines, which ended up as the winning hand.
Level: 6
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
Aleksandr Todesk limped in and Samy Dubonnet raised to 2,500. Roman Marius moved all in for 11,375 and Todesk reshoved over the top for 14,900. Dubonnet gave it some thought and folded.
Roman Marius:
Aleksandr Todesk: 
The board came 
and Marius was drawing dead on the turn. Also out are Cosmin Joldis, Jari Suuronen and Gabriel Stoica.
The €2,200 High Roller field has been reduced to 30 out of 99 players remaining and currently plays level 11 with blinds of 1,200/2,400 and a running ante of 400.
Dorin Rauta has taken over the chip lead with 220,000 along with Mohamed Kerkeni, who has the same stack. Other big stacks and notables still in contention include Elvis Petcu (200,000), Katsuhiro Muto (160,000), Unibet Poker ambassador Ian Simpson (158,000), Andrei Boghean (150,000), Dan Chisu (130,000), Unibet Poker ambassador Dara O'Kearney (100,000), Mateusz Moolhuizen (95,000), Jason Gray (90,000), and Mihai Manole (65,000).
Among those that busted were Narcis Gabriel Nedelcu, Vlad Darie, Rauno Tahvonen, Andrei Nodea, Mihaita Croitoru, Michael Magalashvili and Peter Jaksland to name just a few.
Espen Uhlen Jorstad was eliminated from the €2,200 High Roller earlier and jumped into the Main Event only to be eliminated rather quickly from there as well, as he was on the last batch of players without chips. Joni Liimatta was among those as well along with Marius Asanache and Ciristian Cirja.
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