Mohamed Almani defended his big blind and then check-called a bet of 55,000 on the turn. Atanas Kavrakov as initial aggressor did smell a trap when the river saw another check by Almani and checked behind. Almani flipped over for trips and the Bulgarian tapped the table.
Grigorii Rodin raised to 16,000 from under the gun and Jacques Torbey defended his big blind. Both players checked the flop and the turn before the fell on the river. Torbey bet 16,000 and was called to reveal the as winning hand.
After a raise to 16,000, Jacques Torbey three-bet to 39,000 from the small blind and Grigorii Rodin moved all in for 112,000 out of the big blind. The initial raiser folded but Torbey called with the . Rodin held pocket tens and the flop gave Torbey more outs.
The Lebanese asked for another jack and sure enough the fell straight as next community card. A blank river completed the board and Rodin headed to the payout desk in order to collect €5,375 for his efforts.
Vasili Kesnin raised to 16,000 and Carl Maertzen three-bet to 44,000 only for both opponents to fold to a four-bet shove of Jacques Torbey. Over on table 9, Mohamed Almani won a small pot in a battle of the blinds against Kemal Sevevi and showed the on the river.
Marco Della Tommasina got involved into a pot with Atanas Kavrakov and fell back to almost where he started. The Bulgarian had flopped top pair with and turned top two pair to scoop a nice pot.
Carl Maertzen raised to 21,000 and faced the three-bet of chip leader Majid Ejlal Noubarian to 60,000. Maertzen moved all in for around 240,000 with and was snap-called by the Iranian with . The window card was the right away and the rest of the board ran out .
Jacques Torbey got involved into a huge hand with Mohamed Almani on a flop of . Torbey wasn't willing to put the entire stack at risk though and that was a very wise decision, as Almani flipped over for middle set.
What had happened? Torbey bet 32,000 and Almani check-raised to 77,000 before moving all in to the 150,000-reraise of Torbey. The Lebanese managed to fold ace-queen.
It was some crazy action for sure that caused a three-way all in with Marco Della Tommasina four-bet shoving for 179,000 chips. Chip leader Majid Ejlal Noubarian as initial aggressor reshoved and Mohamed Almani called all in for almost 800,000 chips.
Almani:
Della Tommasina:
Ejlal Noubarian:
"I cannot fold," Almani said and that spotted the bad news. Kemal Sevevi procrastinated a "jack for Italia" and exactly that happened with a board of . The river gave Della Tommasina a triple up whereas Almani was sent to the rail in ninth place.
A short break will now take place to set up the official final table.