With only 71 players at a max making it through to Day 3 and 73 players left in the field, the tournament is closing in on the bubble. Once there are 71 players left, the remaining players can bag and tag their chips for Day 3 and €3,500 will be credited to their casino account as the min-cash.
Nikola Cokesa raised to 27,000 from the middle position and was called by both Josef Snejberg and Ondrej Drozd in the blinds.
The flop came , Snejberg and Drozd quickly checked. Cokesa continued with a bet of 30,000 and Snejberg raised to 80,000 which only Cokesa called.
The turn brought them the , Snejberg led out for 95,000 and Cokesa called.
The river completed the board with the , Snejberg checked and Cokesa bet 178,000 which was exactly what SNejberg had behind. Snejberg dived into the tank for about five minutes before opting to fold.
Naor Slobodskoy raised from the early position and Tomas Sisak shoved in the middle position for 57,000 in total. Action folded back to Slobodskoy who made the call.
Tomas Sisak:
Naor Slobodskoy:
Sisak got up from his chair to film the runout and the dealer spread on the board for Sisak to turn a set to double up.
Antonios Onoufriou was left short lately in Day 2 and he found a good spot to shove his chips in the middle, when he picked up from the button. Stanislav Koleno was in the small blind and called with with the big blind getting out of the way.
The flop was a roller-coaster of emotions, with the dealer opening slowly and painfully the on the window, followed by the and the . Onoufriou had a big advantage now, which he kept after the on the turn and the on the river.
Alois Sprachta raised to 24,000 from the early position and Christopher Putz defended his big blind.
The flop came , Putz check-called the 30,000 continuation-bet of Sprachta.
They both checked through the on the turn to the on the river. Putz took some time and then decided to bet 105,000. Sprachta snap-called and then mucked when Putz tabled for the rivered trip fours.
Aliaksandr Shylko was found with a huge stack, clearly the biggest in the field so far. In his last hands he won two pots against Rifat Gegic going up to 1.7 million chips.
In the first one, he defended from the big blind after Gegic raised from early position. The board ran out with Shylko calling a bet for 22,000 on the flop, and then both players checked down to the river. Shylko opened and it was enough to give him the pot with Gegic mucking.
In the second hand, Shylko opened from the cutoff to 20,000 and Gegic was in the small blind and the only caller in the hand. The flop came and Gegic check-called a bet for 20,000 chips from Shylko.
The appeared on the turn and this time Gegic led for 55,000 with Shylko calling quickly.
The completed the board on the river and Gegic slowed down with a check, while Shylko bet 90,000. Gegic thought about it for a minute and sent his cards to the muck.
Arunas Jocius raised to 22,000 from the middle position and Antonios Onoufriou shoved in the hijack for 202,000. Igor Gamayunov decided to call for the 124,000 he had behind on the button. The blinds folded and so did Jocius after contemplating for a bit.
Igor Gamayunov:
Antonios Onoufriou:
The board ran out for Gamayunov's aces to hold and double him up.