Ionut Voinea started as one of the bigger stacks but he has indeed busted before the money. Most of his chips now belong to Silviu Baltateanu and Pavao Veza, who are well above the average with the bubble approaching soon.
Dor Lan raised and called the shoves of Jan-Willem Nijmeijer and big blind Marius-Serban Moldoveanu for effectively 16 big blinds with pocket kings. Moldoveanu had queens and Nijmeijer the 
. The board ran out 
and Nijmeijer essentially tripled up.
Soon after, Jose Luis Capdevila shoved for 25,000 from the small blind and Catalin Pop peeked at his cards before quickly calling with the 
. Capdevila turned over 
and the board came 
. The table was left short-handed but another table broke soon to make it full ring again, the next casualties are to follow shortly.
On the flop of 
, Victor Kait bet and then faced the shove of Iulian Iacob to eventually call it off with the 
for top pair and top kicker. Iacob turned over 
for top two pair and the 
turn and river both bricked to send Kait out before the money.
Only 85 players remain as five hopefuls were eliminated within only 10 minutes to reduce the field further. This included Catalin Diac and Ionut Dobre.
With 43,000 in the middle and the flop reading 
, Kevin "Papaplatte" Teller was all in with the 
for the open ender and nut flush draw. Catalin Pop called with 
and the 
turn and river first improved teller to a pair and then to the nut flush in order to double.
Pasquale Grimaldi was all in for 73,500 with the and Jose Luis Capdevila called with the 
. The flip went to Grimaldi as the board ran out 
.
Katsuhiro Muto was among those that ran out of chips after three-betting all in against a raise and a call by Corentin Schmauch. The latter snap-called with and Muto only had . Muto was drawing dead on the turn of a board 
and headed to the rail.
A short-stacked Tim Bruneel was at risk with and big stack Tudor Bartha Lazar called with . Bruneel had a ton of outs on the board 
but failed to get there.
Silviu Baltateanu raised to 11,500 and was called by Ionut Zota in the small blind and Cosmin Nedelea in the big blind. The trio checked the board of 
until the river, on which Baltateanu bet 17,000. Zota folded but Nedelea called to see Baltateanu flip over 
, which Zota had beat with .
Short stack Vladimir Borkunov moved all in for 21,500 in late position and Eric Wasylenko asked for a count and called on the button. Henrik Tellving eyed the stack of the Canadian and called out of the big blind as well.
Both remaining active players checked the 
flop and a bet of 30,000 by Tellving on the turn forced a fold from Wasylenko.
Henrik Tellving: 
Vladimir Borkunov:
There was no card in the deck that could help the Russian and the 
on the river was a mere formality.
Within the first level, almost 20 players were sent to the rail and Tiago Santos followed at the start of level 14 to reduce the field to the last 95 hopefuls. At this rate, the money bubble will be reached in the third level of the day.
Level: 13
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 500
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