Azad Jabrayılov was looking good for a double up, he was all in with against Bernard Samaha's . Then the flop came , Samaha flopping quads and a stunned Jabrayılov was already out of his chair before the turn and were being dealt.
Barely had Boris Yanpolskiy been eliminated and Andrey Kazankov was shoving all in on the next table. Sergey Rybachenko immediately reraised all in behind him. Everyone else folded.
Giacomo Fundaro opened to 12,000 and was raised to 30,000 by Baris Topkaya. Alexey Rybin called, the blinds folded and with the action back on Fundaro he declared all-in for his last 70,000. Topkaya thought for a while as he still had Rybin to act behind him. Topkaya decided to call the extra 70,000 and Rybin did the same.
Everyone gathered around the table to see if the bubble would burst and the dealer prepared to deal the flop. There was nothing more that Fundaro could do, but Topkaya and Rybin still had chips behind.
The flop was . Topkaya threw out a bet and Rybin folded. Cards were on their backs. Topkaya had but Fundaro had the . He just had to survive two more cards and he would more than triple up. The cards fell and . The crowd gasped as Topkaya spiked his set on the river and Fundaro was crushed.
Rybin claimed to have folded which would have rivered him a straight.
Vyacheslav Goryachev in the small blind got into a raising war with Alexandr Lakhov in the big blind. They got it all in and Goryachev turned over . Lakhov had . The board ran out and Goryachev was gone. We are now hand for hand on the money bubble.
Alexandr Lakhov is having a heated but seemingly good natured discussion with Kfir Yamin. After Yamin’s early double up he has been claiming, “It’s my time.” He further increased his stack where he was involved in a hand with and spiked a Jack on the river. Lakhov has been telling Yamin that he is just getting lucky, while Yamin is saying the Lakhov is playing “Too tight.” Who will be proved right?
Meanwhile Jacoues Torbey burst out to sing, “I’m sexy and I know it.” to much laughter.