Eric Gorree remains the short stack in the field and was not able to pick up a spot yet to get the chips in. The very same table then brought a three-bet shove by Raymond Wheatley and Pierre De Almeida folded.
Eric Gorree remains the short stack in the field and was not able to pick up a spot yet to get the chips in. The very same table then brought a three-bet shove by Raymond Wheatley and Pierre De Almeida folded.
Pierre De Almeida raised and called the shove by Raymond Wheatley for a mere 50,000 as both players tabled ace-rags.
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board.
Julius Kettunen three-bet for 236,000 and was snapped off by the initial raiser Rens Boerke.
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board improved Kettunen and left Boerke with fumes.
Kenneth Heinsvig pushed all-in for 12 blinds and Bas Silvius called all-in for 66,000. Serdar Demircan gave it some thought and sent the cards into the muck.
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and Silvius was the first casualty after the dinner break.
Level: 18
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 10,000
After the post dinner carnage has reduced the field to the final 29 players, the 60-minute dinner break has commenced upon completion of level 17. The action will resume at approximately 8.18 pm local time and continues until the nine-handed final table has been reached.
Former big stack Jon Per Persent three-bet jammed for around 150,000 and was looked up by one of the current big stacks in Henrik Juncker.
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Persent was ahead but that instantly changed on the ![]()
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flop, which gave Juncker the nut straight. It was all over on the
turn and the
river became a formality.
The next player to survive the money bubble on fumes and then spin it up is Italy's Domenico Gala. He also notched up an elimination to boost his stack further when he took on Dwayne Sluis in a preflop contest.
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board and Sluis had to settle for 31st place.
Clement Kerrien was among the very shortest stacks on the bubble and then responsible for bursting it. Since then, the Frenchman chipped up a ton while former big stack Jon Per Persent dropped to a very short stack.
In the latest hand between the duo, Persent paid off a river bet by Kerrien on the ![]()
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for the turned wheel and six-high straight to chip up further.
The table broke right after with the elimination of Cristiano Blanco in 33rd place.
In a battle of the blinds, Unibet ambassador Arnaud Enselme limped in and Daniel Pastor raised to 28,000. Enselme then limp-reraised to 88,000 only for Pastor to move all-in for almost half a million in chips.
The call by Enselme with a near identical stack size followed and the cards were flipped over.
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flop spelled trouble with the additional flush draw for Pastor. While the
turn bricked, the
river did not. Both stacks were counted and Enselme had 463,000 while Pastor doubled for 448,000.
Soon after on the button, Enselme got it in and Ian Simpson came along out of the big blind.
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board as Simpson notched up another knockout despite being well below the average.
"That's the biggest stack I had all tournament," he joked.
Szymon Bujok followed suit as he first lost a flip and was gone soon after.