In the first hand, Nicolas Chouity opened from early position to 80,000, and right next to him Igor Devkin shoved all in for the 430,000 he had left after paying the 5,000 ante. Action foldedback to Chouity, who made the call.
Chouity:
Devkin:
The was a good one for Devkin, stealing some outs from Chouity. The on the turn was a blank, and the was the cherry on top of Devkin's double.
Toby Lewis opened the hijack for 80,000, and Nicolas Chouity three bet to 210,000 from the small blind. The big blind folded, Lewis made the call with about 850,000 behind.
Chouity bet out 160,000, Lewis called rather quickly.
The fell on the turn, and Chouity check folded to Lewis' push.
Nicolas Chouity opened for 80,000 from the cutoff, and Toby Lewis in the big blind made the call.
Lewis check called 90,000 on , another 160,000 on the -turn, and didn't waste much time check calling the 360,000 bet Chouity fired on the -river either.
Chouity mucked with some frustration when his river bet got almost snap called. Lewis mucked as well, and was pushed the pot.
Dmitry Gromov opened under the gun for 100,000, and action folded to Nicolas Chouity in the small blind. The start of day chip leader made it 240,000, and Igor Devkin thought about it in the small blind. He announced all in, for what looked like 800,000. Gromov folded, Chouity insta called.
Igor Devkin:
Nicolas Chouity:
Gromov said he folded an ace, and expected one on the river to pop up. In the meantime Devkin needed a queen or some other help, but wouldn't get it: .
Gromov had his hands in the air as he would have won the hand, but that made no difference for Devkin and Chouity of course. Devkin departed in 6th place, Chouity has around 3.7 million.
In a battle of the blinds, Gromov (small blind) and Lewis (big blind) got their stacks in the middle. Lewis was behind with the as Gromov turned over .
The flop was full of blanks with , and the on the turn settled things. "Ok, come on" said Ori Miller, not wanting to wait longer. The made the board complete, and Gromov doubled.