Tudor Purice min-raised to 10,000 and Ionut Asanache moved all in out of the small blind. Purice asked for a count and eventually called when it was deemed to be for 86,500. Once all other tables were finished, the cards were turned over.
Ionut Asanache:
Tudor Purice:
There was a sweat on the turn but the board ran out blank with to let Asanache double on the money bubble.
Razvan Cetanas has taken over the lead after forcing a big fold from Ohana Shlomo.
On the three-way turn of , Shlomo bet 28,000 in the big blind and Oscar Tompsett called. Cetanas raised to 60,000 and Shlomo called, Tompsett folded. The fell on the river and Shlomo folded while Cetanas instantly moved all in.
Shlomo sighed and was asked if he had a set. Shlomo shook his head and mucked the , and Cetanas cheekily turned over the .
Vlad Ruxandari and Stefanita Fachete are the next two casualties and the latter lost a big flip to Georgios-Angelos Tavoularis. The Greek open-shoved out of the small blind for 250,000 and had Fachete with 150,000 covered. Fachete checked his cards and called.
Stefanita Fachete:
Georgios-Angelos Tavoularis:
The flop gave Tavoularis the nut flush and Fachete needed running cards in order to avoid a debacle before the money bubble. Instead it was all over after the turn to make the river a formality. There are 73 players remaining and 71 get paid.
Cornel Oleniuc was all in and at risk with the and table neighbor Aris Tourlakis called with the dominating . The board came and the kicker played to eliminate Oleniuc.
Tudor Purice had lost quite some chips but just recovered it big time by getting a full double through Daniel Stoian. Purice shoved the river for 76,000 and Stoian called with the . Purice showed for the full house and bumped his stack to more than the average.
There was also a seat open on the feature table with the details to come on a delay of 30 minutes.
Table four with big stack Andrei Grimberg, eSports Star Kevin "Papaplatte" Teller and Catalin Pop will move to the feature table after the current 15-minute break and you can watch the action right here on PokerNews by clicking on the stream tab above. In the meanwhile, the 77 remaining players are getting some fresh air as the first two levels of the day are completed. Tom Vogelsang is the chip leader with 600,000 right now.
Alexander Ioan follows not far behind and pushed Tudor Purice off a big pot. According to Ioan he pushed on the flop with an open-ended straight flush draw and Purice folded, claiming he had pocket queens.
On the turn of the board , Catalin Luca was all in and at risk for around 100,000 and Vladut Paun tossed in a single chip for the call.
Catalin Luca:
Vladut Paun:
Paun had come from behind to turn the same straight while freerolling to a better straight with one card to come. There were several "ohhhh's" on the table as the heartbreaking indeed appeared on the river to eliminate Luca.
and the money bubble burst, ensuring at least €1,880 for all remaining 71 players.
to let Asanache double on the money bubble.
, Shlomo bet 28,000 in the big blind and Oscar Tompsett called. Cetanas raised to 60,000 and Shlomo called, Tompsett folded. The 
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flop gave Tavoularis the nut flush and Fachete needed running cards in order to avoid a debacle before the money bubble. Instead it was all over after the 
river a formality. There are 73 players remaining and 71 get paid.
and the kicker played to eliminate Oleniuc.
. Purice showed 
on the flop with an open-ended straight flush draw and Purice folded, claiming he had pocket queens.
