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In the last match of the morning round, Dario Sammartino bet 8,000 on a flop of K♠K♦7♦. Aliaksei Boika raised to 20,000. Sammartino called.
After Boika checked the J♣ turn, Sammartino bet 16,000. After some deliberation, Boika made the call.
Both players checked the 8♥ river.
Sammartino tabled 10♣10♦ to show a bigger pair than Boika, who had 7♥4♥.
Level: 11
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 0
Dario Sammartino completed from the button and Aliaksei Boika checked his option in the big blind.
Boika checked the 8♦5♥A♦ flop and Sammartino checked back.
A 6♣ on the turn saw Boika check-fold to the 8,000 bet from Sammartino.
Pieter Aerts on the button open-shoved to 37,600 and Thomas Boivin called, leading them to a showdown.
Pieter Aerts: K♦9♣ 
Thomas Boivin: Q♠J♦
Aerts was ahead and was looking at a potential double up when the 4♠A♦3♦ flop. The turn J♠ dashed his hopes, however, as Boivin caught a pair. With the 5♥ river not helping him improve, Aerts got eliminated from moving forward in the tournament.
With the board reading 2♠6♥10♣3♠2♥, Thomas Muehloecker went all in with a check-raise of Viktor Blom's pot-sized bet of 35,000.
Blom, the shorter stack with less than 40,000 remaining, made the call.
Viktor Blom: 9♣2♣
Thomas Muehloecker: 3♦2♦
Muehloecker's full house won the hand and the match.
Doug Polk called on the button and Alex Keating checked in the big blind.
Both checked the 6♣5♥Q♣ flop to see the J♣ appear on the turn. Keating bet 6,000, which Polk called.
The 7♦ completed the board, and Keating jammed for about 35,000. Polk snap-called and showed 4♣2♣ for a small flush. It was good to win the match as Keating turned over J♦6♥ for two pair.
Level: 10
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 0
Thomas Boivin raised to 8,000 on the button and Pieter Aerts three-bet to 28,000 from the big blind. Boivin called.
Aerts went for a check on the 5♥Q♦9♣ flop and Boivin bet 16,000. Aerts continued with a call.
Aerts checked again when he saw the K♥ turn, and Boivin fired a second barrel of 30,000. Aerts called.
A final check from Aerts followed the 9♥ river, causing Boivin to jam for 56,700. Aerts tanked for quite some time before eventually deciding on a call.
Boivin showed K♣8♣ for kings and nines to double up, while Aerts revealed Qx5x for an inferior two pair.
Play was already underway when Alex Keating, in the big blind, bet 5,000 into an 8,000 pot beside a 8♠3♣4♣ flop. Doug Polk called to see the turn.
It dropped Q♦, and Keating kept the pressure with 12,000. Polk called once again.
On the river 10♥, Keating eased up and checked, prompting Polk to announce all in. Keating asked for a count (198,000). Polk complained, "I have you covered."
Keating defended his request, stating that he was saving on his last time bank. He threw it in anyway and folded his hand as time ran out. He showed J♣6♣, and Polk showed one card 3x, which made Keating quite satisfied with his fold.
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