Level: 16
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 500
Level: 16
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 500
The eliminations keep coming at a lightning-fast pace and among those to run out of chips was Tiziano Di Romualdo. He got it in with queen-ten against the pocket queens of Jan Mach and the ![]()
of Lawrence Whyte. The board ran out jack-high and Whyte missed out on a gutshot to see Mach double in a massive pot.
Ricardo Chauriye faced a raise to 11,000 by Bernd Gleissner and moved all in for 31,500. Gleissner called with the ![]()
and Chauriye had a flip with ![]()
. The board came ![]()
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and that was it for the Chilean.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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280,000
258,000
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258,000 |
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170,000
100,000
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100,000 |
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170,000
170,000
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170,000 |
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20,000
100,000
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100,000 |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
Ryan Hughes left the tournament area and his seat was indeed empty while the stack of Robert Auer had grown. According to Auer in the big blind, he called the push of Hughes from the small blind for around 45,000 with ![]()
and faced the ![]()
of the American. Three hearts on the flop were followed by a fourth heart on the river and Hughes was eliminated before the money.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
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150,000
100,000
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100,000 |
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Busted | |
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Martin Kabrhel raised to 8,000 from the hijack, Said Sadallah shoved for 25,500 from the button for action to be folded back to Kabrhel. Kabrhel called.
Said Sadallah: ![]()
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Martin Kabrhel: ![]()
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The flop came ![]()
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to give Sadallah a pair of nines. The
on the turn now turned his pair into trips and the
on the river now gave Sadallah a flush and the double up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
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82,000
13,000
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13,000 |
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61,000
61,000
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61,000 |
Down to just 21,000, Christian Arstad was all in for 21,000 with the ![]()
and Romain Follet called with ![]()
. The board came ![]()
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and Arstad made quads, grabbed his smartphone and took a picture.
Eddy Scharf busted to Michael Sklenicka and several players are approaching or surpassing a quarter million in chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
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270,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
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270,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
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|
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255,000
55,000
|
55,000 |
|
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250,000
150,000
|
150,000 |
|
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210,000
120,000
|
120,000 |
|
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140,000
70,000
|
70,000 |
|
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140,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
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110,000
78,000
|
78,000 |
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|
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80,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
|
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50,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
Level: 15
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 500
The player in mid-position shoved all in and the player on the button asked for a call. The dealer counted out the chips and confirmed he had 14,000 behind. The player folded, but Brandon Cantu, sitting in the small blind, also went all in. The player in the big blind looked at Cantu and then at his own cards. After having seen them, he called with a smaller stack (around 25,000) than Cantu's.
Brandon Cantu: ![]()
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Big Blind: ![]()
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Mid-position: ![]()
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Cantu was behind but he touched the five he had to point out that would be the winning card.
The flop came ![]()
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to give Cantu a chance on a straight. The
on the turn still give the upper hand to the player in the big blind. But the
on the river was just the card Cantu needed to eliminate the two other players and to claim their bounties.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
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110,000
55,000
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55,000 |
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Within one level the field has been reduced to just 72 hopefuls and among those to bust were Francisco Fernandez, Roland Israelashvili, Sam Grafton and Tezer Cetindag.
Michael Sklenicka knocked out a short stack with ![]()
while doubling through the ![]()
of Martin Kabrhel with ![]()
on a board of ![]()
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. Sklenicka won another pot after to boost his stack further.
Ricardo Chauriye's stack took a hit when Anatoliy Zyrin doubled with ![]()
against his ![]()
while Carlo Savinelli doubled through Marek Tatar with ![]()
versus ![]()
after a flop of ![]()
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. The
turn and
river were blanks and Savinelli doubled for 43,500 before Tatar doubled soon after and then got moved tables.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
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170,000
95,000
|
95,000 |
|
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170,000
90,000
|
90,000 |
|
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95,000
75,000
|
75,000 |
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|
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90,000
68,000
|
68,000 |
|
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80,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
|
|
70,000 | |
|
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20,000
36,000
|
36,000 |
|
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Mike Leah just eliminated another player which pushed his chip stack to over 200,000 and another bounty to add to his collection.
Mike Leah: ![]()
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Opponent: ![]()
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The board ran out ![]()
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and everything was for Leah as his kings held.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
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201,500
115,500
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115,500 |
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Micky Blasi raised to 6,500 and Romain Follet three-bet to 18,000 before calling the four-bet shove of the big blind for 40,000 with ![]()
. The big blind only had ![]()
and the board came ![]()
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.
John Racener defended his big blind to a raise by Michael Eiler and check-raised the ![]()
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flop from 7,000 to 15,500. Eiler moved all in and Racener called.
Michael Eiler: ![]()
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John Racener: ![]()
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The
on the turn left Eiler with just two outs, and the
on the river was a blank.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
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250,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
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|
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200,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
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Busted | |
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