Juse Urrutia and Vadzim Lipauka have been eliminated from the Main Event. Urrutia received €5,457, Lipauka was the first to collect the payjump of €6,185.
Tudor Popa nearly saw his tournament come to an end, but a spicy two-outer on the river saved him from elimination.
With , Popa was all in against the of chipleader Han Kuo. The flop was safe for Popa, but the on the turn left the Romanian drawing to one of the remaining treys.
Sure enough, the landed on the river, and Popa bolted out of his seat in excitement.
Down to his last 150,000, Thomas Schröpfer got it in with ace-king versus the pocket tens of Oriol Fernandez. The flop nearly decided it, and after the turn it was over for Schröpfer.
Team Georgia, who's here in Rozvadov with a bus full of players and reporters, just saw their last man go down. With the hope of the nation resting on his shoulders, Valeri Bakhturidze had to make a move with his short stack sooner or later.
Bakthuridze shoved from the small blind and Mihai Malone called in the big blind with . At least ten Georgians on the rail jumped on their feet, and the five Georgian based reporters in the room swooped in to capture all the action as it unfolded.
It wasn't meant to be for the last Georgian, as the board failed to improve his jack-high. Receiving a thunderous applause from his countrymen, Bakhturidze headed for the rail in 33rd place.
WCOOP-winner Jonas Lauck, who also lost pocket aces against Gordon Vayo's ace-king deep in the WSOP Main Event this year, has become the 35th place finisher. In two hands, Lauck lost his stack.
First, he shoved in a blind battle against Ronald van de Linde, who called with and held. The next hand, Lauck shoved from the button and Serbia's Alexander Tomovic called with .
Lauck failed to improve once again and was eliminated.
EPT12 Grand Final winner Jan Bendik has been eliminated from the tournament. It was a blind battle against Marco Topic that would become Bendik's final hand.
After the money went in preflop, Bendik was in great shape to double up. Holding , he was up against Marco Topic's . Unfortunately for the Slovakian, the flop brought a queen to send the pot over to Topic.