Lucas Tabarin open-shoved from the button for the last 3,013,447 and Avian Cohen reshoved for more than three times of that to isolate successfully.
Lucas Tabarin:
Avidan Cohen:
Cohen immediately flopped a set on to reduce the outs of Tabarin to four. That increased after the turn which opened a flushdraw but a blank river sent Tabarin out in 30th place for $55,880.
Benjamin Rolle opened the action with a raise to 600,000 on the button and short stack Joshua McCully raised to 3,498,250 with 300,000 behind. Rolle moved all in and McCully called it off.
Joshua McCully:
Benjamin Rolle:
The kicker would play on a board of to send McCully to the rail in 29th place.
Ricky Tang raised to 1,750,000 in middle position and Mateusz Rypulak then moved all in for 5,201,959 in the cutoff. Tang had 177,722 behind and eventually called after several players used the emojis in chat.
Ricky Tang:
Mateusz Rypulak:
Both players flopped a pair on to keep Rypulak ahead and nothing changed on the turn and river. Tang's Main Event has come to an end in 28th place which comes with a payday of $55,800.
Natural8 Team Hot member Phachara Wongwichit raised to 600,000 in the cutoff and Samuel Taylor called in the small blind. Stoyan Madanzhiev in the big blind simply pushed all in with the superior stack. Wongwichit called it off for the 6,663,996 he had behind and Taylor folded.
Phachara Wongwichit:
Stoyan Madanzhiev:
Both players flopped a pair on and Madanzhiev held the flush draw, which immediately hit on the turn, which made the river a formality.
Dingxiang Ong raised to 720,000 on the button and Julien Perouse folded the small blind. Benjamin Rolle three-bet shoved all in from the big blind and Ong called all in for 5,564,060 more to create a showdown.
Dingxiang Ong:
Benjamin Rolle:
Ong remained ahead after the flop but Rolle caught the on the turn to take the lead. Ong still had a one-in-four shot with his pair and flush draw but whiffed the river to fall in 26th place.
Stoyan Madanzhiev had just sent a player to the rail a few hands ago to cement his status as the chip leader and didn't slow down at all with his aggressive play. After opening from under the gun, he found resistance by Martin Arce in the cutoff and they eventually got it in for a pot of 22,372,560 with Arce at risk.
Martin Arce:
Stoyan Madanzhiev:
This time Madanzhiev had the best of it and that didn't change at all on a board of . Arce was eliminated in 25th place for $79,625 and Madanzhiev took a commanding lead for the final three tables.
With the elimination of Martin Arce, the field is down to three tables. Manuel Saavedra found a first-in spot in the cutoff and moved all in for 2,886,558. Chip leader Stoyan Madanzhiev called from the big blind.
Manuel Saavedra:
Stoyan Madanzhiev:
The incredible heater of Madanzhiev continued as the board fell to improve him to a straight for another KO.
Two of the most-watched events in the GGPokerWorld Series of Poker bracelet schedule are wrapping up this weekend.
One, of course, is the $5,200 Main Event, which built a record prize pool for an online poker tournament and sees the final 38 players coming back for a shot at WSOP gold.
The other offers considerably greater chance of bracelet glory as only four players remain in the $25,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em event. Here, PokerNews will preview the final day of play in this prestigious event with a look at the remaining competitors and the current market prices.
Within two consecutive hands, the entire chip stack of start-of-the-day chip leader Bryan Piccioli has melted and he went from one of the bigger stacks to 23rd place finisher.
In a battle of the blinds, Piccioli raiised to 1,085,000 and Julien Perouse called from the big blind. Piccioli fired the flop for 847,000 and the turn for 2,072,000, which Perouse called and had 7,378,021 behind.
Piccioli then jammed the river and Perouse called with for a flush, which beat the of the American.
In the very next hand, Piccioli jammed the button for 5,928,812 and Benjamin Rolle called from the big blind.
Bryan Piccioli:
Benjamin Rolle:
The flop left Piccioli in dire shape and he was drawing dead on the turn, which made the river a formality.
Stoyan Madanzhiev raised to 770,000 in early position and Julian Stuer called from the big blind. The flop was and Stuer check-called 560,000 from the chip leader.
The turn brought the and Stuer checked. Madanzhiev bet 980,000 this time and Stuer called once more.
On the river, Stuer took some time before checking. Madanzhiev pot-betted, which was enough to put Stuer all in, and the German took about 30 seconds before calling it off for 4,179,616 total.
Madanzhiev shoved for a full house, Stuer had trip kings with and was eliminated.