The pot reached approximately 800,000 chips on a board between chip leader Alexandar Denishev and Hossein Ensan. Denishev added to his chip lead when he turned over for a a set to be Ensan's . Ensan collected €4,680, and was one of the more respectfully told his opponent, "Good game" as made his way to the cashier.
On the flop , Peter Zámiska was all in and at risk for what looked like 425,000 and Süleyman Erdar ooked him up with the [KcmQh] for top pair. Zamiska had a lot of outs with but failed to improve, as the board fiilled up with the turn and river.
From udner the gun, Roman Cieslik moved all in for 84,000 and Nick Krasniqi called in the big blind with the . Cieslik had the and doubled on a board of .
Paul Michaelis got moved tables after the break and was then suddenly at the payout desk. It turns out that Amir Mozaffarian had raised and Andrew King three-bet from the button. Michaelis shoved for 285,000 from the small blind with pocket eights and King called with pocket aces to score the knockout.
Mozaffarian also gave up a middle-sized pot to Aleksei Ivanov after the latter gave him the staredown on the turn after betting 125,000.
Süleyman Erdar was the initial raiser and Alexandar Denishev had defended his big blind. Quite a nice pot emerged until the river of a board and Denishev fired 181,000. Erdar tanked for a while and then called, claiming a lower flush when getting shown the by Denishev.
Marek Blasko raised for all but a few chips behind from under the gun and Thomas Erler made the call, exposing his cards in the without noticing that Blasko in the eight seat had chips behind.
Blasko committed the rest with ace-ten and the board ran out to award the chips to Erler. He then received a one round penalty for exposing his cards out of turn.
Miltiadis Kyriakides won a WSOP Golden Ring early in the series in the PLO8 event, and has been one of the more entertaining players to watch. In that event, he had a prop bet where he won €1,000 which involved a coin-flip as to whether he needed to make the final table or win the tournament. Whether or not the prop bet provided extra motivated for Kyriakides, isn't known, but it is apparent he likes to have fun on the tables.
While receiving a massage, he announced, "I am going to play a pot. I always play from the big blind." The action folded around to Johnny Hansen in the small blind. The Greek proclaimed without looking at his cards, "Everyone folded, I have at least one ace."
Hansen keeps to himself, but appeared to be undeterred. He raised the action preflop which Kyriakides calls after taking a look at his cards for the first time. The flop came and Hansen fired a bet for 26,000 which Kyriakides quickly called. Both players checked on the turn of . Hansen checked again when comes, however, Kyriakides fired out a bet for 200,000 which Hansen called.
Kyriakides turns over for the full house and Hansen mucks his hand.