The past half an hour was all but slow for Ohana Shlomo, who was involved in many pots and eventually went from hero to zero.
Jean-Serge Baril raised from under the gun and Shlomo shoved for around 400,000 from the button, which Baril called with the slightly superior stack.
Ohana Shlomo:
Jean-Serge Baril:
Once again Shlomo had the dominated pocket pair in the showdown and the board of failed to improve the player from Israel to see him bust out in 22nd place for €4,150.
While the action on the outer tables has somewhat slowed down, there have been two casualties on the feature table and the details will be published according to the delay on the stream.
On the outer table, Avi Cohen raised to 50,000 and Dor Lan shoved. Lan had previously lost a bigger pot to Christopher Heidelbacher and the all in move got through uncontested.
After losing the big flip earlier, Razvan Cetanas shoved for just five big blinds on the button over on the feature table with and Tom Vogelsang called with in the big blind. The board came and Cetanas was eliminated.
After the elimination on the feature table, Silviu Baltateanu faced a raise to 60,000 by Henrik Tellving on the outer table and moved all in for 272,000 in the small blind. Tellving asked for a count and called after some consideration.
Silviu Baltateanu:
Henrik Tellving:
The board came and Tellving rivered a straight to eliminate Baltateanu in 19th place for €4,650.
There is a 15-minute break after the last two eliminations took place on different tables and reduced the field to the last 18 hopefuls. The next redraw takes place right now and all further updates for both tables will be on a delay of 30 minutes.
Over on the feature table, Anatoli Halca defended his big blind agaianst a raise by Georgios-Angelos Tavoularis and got the remainder of his stack of 200,000 in after a flop of . The Greek called with the superior stack and the cards were turned over.
Anatoli Halca:
Georgios-Angelos Tavoularis:
The kicker problem would turn out to be crucial, as the turn and river failed to improve Halca. He bowed out in 21st place for €4,150 and there is now a pay jump for all remaining 20 hopefuls.
The 20th place finisher is Aris Tourlakis. Down to around 250,000 he three-bet all in from the cutoff after a raise to 47,000 by Marius Pertea in the hijack over on the feature table, Pertea quickly called.
Aris Tourlakis:
Marius Pertea:
Both players hit the ace on the board of and the kicker played to eliminate Tourlakis in 20th place for €4,650.
In a battle of the big stacks over on the outer table, Jean-Serge Baril raised from the cutoff for 45,000 and Tom Vogelsang in the small blind three-bet to 150,000. Baril four-bet to 400,000 with a stack just shy of a million and Vogelsang moved all in, which the Canadian called.
Jean-Serge Baril:
Tom Vogelsang:
The pocket queens had been good for Baril not long ago, but this time the board came to eliminate the Canadian in 18th place for €4,650