Anthony Rodrigues open-shoved his short stack with pocket nines and was called by Jozsef Szabo from two seats over with . The flop all but locked up the hand for the Belgian, however turn and river provided running aces for Szabo to send Rodrigues to the rail. The other players at the tables did some quick calculation and it was 0.7% on the flop to see Szabo win.
Jeffrey Brouwer was all in and at risk with against the of Barny Boatman. Both players had hit their ace on the turn and the river sent Brouwer to the rail with a bad beat story to tell.
Day 1b chip leader Yves Senterre shoved his short stack of 54,000 chips in from middle position and Yehoram Houri called from the button, the players in the blinds folded. Senterre had the and Houri flipped over . The board ran out to reduce the field to 46.
There are 16 minutes remaining in level 18 and tournament director Christian Scalzi has just confirmed that hand for hand mode will be played until the money has been reached before sending everyone off into the dinner break.
Mathieu Alciato raised from under the gun and Matas Cimbolas moved all in for his short stack to get called by Barny Boatman, the player in the big blind as well as Alciato. On the flop, the player in the big blind check-called a bet of 11,000 by Alciato and then folded the turn to another 24,000 bet.
Once the other tables were finished, the showdown proceeded:
Cimbolas:
Alciato:
Only a seven could save the Lithuanian but the river was a brick. The last 12 minutes of the level are still played before everyone is sent off into a 60-minute dinner break.
Niels Gybels had dominated the last few levels but would lost a massive pot for more than half a million in chips against Nico Lombaerts. The action on the river is amiss, but Gybels then bet 62,000. Lombaerts moved all in for exactly 200,000 and Gybels was vaulted out of his chair.
"This is so sick," the Belgian said and gave it some more thought. He ultimately put forward some chips to make the call and was shown by Lombaerts. It took a while to sink in before Gybels turned over his and cut out the T-5,000 stacks to pay off his opponent.
Once the bubble burst, David van Roosbroeck was the first player to hit the rail in 45th place for a min-cash of €2,335. Shortly after, Saied Lege moved all in with and got called by Niko Koop from one seat over with . The board ran out and Lege was also sent to the rail.
Maybe one minute passed and Salvatore Alessi pushed forward a stack of T-5,000 chips for what looked like 90,000 with about the same amount of chips behind. The player in seat one mucked and later said in table chat he had . Koop pushed all in from the small blind and Alessi called off.
Antoine Saout moved all in for what appeared to be his last two big blinds and Niko Koop min-raised to scare off all other players in the last hand of the level. Koop joked to the Frenchman that they would be splitting most of the time, as he held and Saout got .
However, the board gave Koop a straight and he knocked out the third player in a row.
. The 
against the 
of Barny Boatman. Both players had hit their ace on the turn and the 
river sent Brouwer to the rail with a bad beat story to tell.
and Houri flipped over 
. The board ran out 
to reduce the field to 46.
turn to another 24,000 bet.
river was a brick. The last 12 minutes of the level are still played before everyone is sent off into a 60-minute dinner break.
by Lombaerts. It took a while to sink in before Gybels turned over his 
and got called by Niko Koop from one seat over with 
and Alessi also fell to Koop.
and Saout got 
.
