A player raised to 8,000 and another player called before Michael Tureniec raised to 62,000 with only a few chips behind. Farhad Jamasi put him all in and the other two players got out of the way before Tureniec called.
Jamasi showed the and Tureniec asked if he had a jack behind the queen. Jamasi confirmed and showed the and Tureniec was ecstatic. ''I love you for that!''. Tureniec opened up and he had his opponent dominated.
The board ran out and Jamasi asked Tureniec if he still loved him after the runout and Tureniec was off to the showers.
Diogo Veiga started out with a stack below average and he wasn't able to get something going today. He did manage to sneak in the money but he was eliminated shortly after that.
That ensures we will get a new champion in this event.
The flop was and Guillaume Nolet checked from the hijack. Liran Twito, one of the top stacks at the start of today, bet 19,000 and Nolet raised to 52,000. Twito then three-bet all in for about 180,000 in total and he was snapped off by Nolet.
Liran Twito:
Guillaume Nolet:
Twito hit his spade on the turn when the was dealt but the board paired with the on the river and Nolet won a big pot to propel himself to the chip lead while Twito is the last player to be eliminated before the money.
Mate Mecs raised to 6,000 from the button and big blind Daniel Buzgon pushed his last 84,500 to the middle. He was called by Mecs and they waited until the action was finished on all other tables so they could open their cards up.
Mecs had and he was flipping against the of Buzgon.
The board ran out and Buzgon hit a queen on the turn to double up.
Hand-for-hand play is still going on. There was one all-in and call situation where both players had pocket tens and they chopped. They keep taking 2 minutes off the clock for every hand played.
Basil Yaiche raised to 8,000 from middle position and his neighbor called. Alex Keating moved all in for 75,000 from the cutoff and Yaiche called. The third player folded.
Alex Keating:
Basil Yaiche:
The board ran out and Keating secured a lucky double by hitting his ace.
David Peters busted out on one of the other tables with a flopped set of tens against a flopped set of jacks.
The tournament is now officially on the bubble and they are playing hand-for-hand poker right now.