Viktor Katzenberger in the small blind and Andrej Desset in the big blind got all of the chips in the middle preflop. They waited patiently until all other action on the remaining tables was finished before turning their hands over.
Andrej Desset:
Viktor Katzenberger:
The board ran out and Katzenberger was left walking away without any money in his pocket. Katzenberger also bubbled Event #1: Monster Stack, however, he was able to split bubble money with two other players in that event.
Dmitrii Deviatov doubled on the bubble to get above average and faced a raise to 11,000 by Razvan-Andrei Dumea. Deviatov three-bet to 32,000 and Sander van Wesemael four-bet to 66,000, forcing out Dumea. Deviatov moved all in and van Wesemael snap-folded.
Tony Lefort raised to 17,000 on the button and Luis Dono moved all in from the small blind, Milan Simko folded from the big blind with very few chips behind and Lefort called all in for 100,000.
Tony Lefort:
Luis Dono:
The board came and the Frenchman rivered a better pair.
The first player eliminated in the money is Ran Azor. He three-bet all in from the big blind with the and initial raiser Iurie Cudrinschi called from under the gun with . The board came and Azor had to settle for the min cash of €2,429.
Vincent Moscati limped in from the small blind and Anthony Zinno raised to 16,000 from the big blind. Moscati three-bet to 55,000 putting the action back on Zinno. After thinking for a moment, Zinno announced all-in and counted out his chips for a total of 223,000. Moscati elected to fold and Zinno raked in the pot.
Meanwhile, on the table behind them, Stoyan Obreshkov was all-in for his last 45,000 and was called by Jan Bednar. Bednar flopped top pair with on a queen-high board and held on to eliminated Obreshkov.
Aaron Duczak raised and called a three-bet by Razvan-Andrei Dumea for 30,000 to see a flop of and the Romanian checked to Duczak, who shoved for 97,500 from the button. Dumea snap-called in the big blind and the cards were tabled.
Aaron Duczak:
Razvan-Andrei Dumea:
Duczak was on his way out, but the on the turn gave him trips, and the bricked to ensure the double up for the Canadian.
Jan Bednar's raise to 11,000 was followed by the three-bet shove of Micky Blasi in the small blind and Chris Ferguson tank-folded out of the big blind. Bednar asked for a count and the shove was for 76,500, which Bednar called.
Micky Blasi:
Jan Bednar:
The flop was a sweat, and while the turn chan ged nothing, Blasi got there with the river to double.
Ryan Hughes pushed all-in for 92,500 on the button and was called by Aneris Adomkevicius in the small blind. Hughes showed but was dominated by Adomkevicius' .
The board ran out and Hughes was unable to come from behind. He picked up some Player of the Year points with his min-cash, but with Chris Ferguson still in the field, it appears the Ferguson will still hold the lead after this event.
The cards were all but rushed away and Patrik Ciklamini headed to the rail, his table waiting for a new player to arrive. Erik Cajelais confirmed that it was him that took the rest of Ciklamini's stack, who had pushed for around 80,000 with . Cajelais had Ciklamini barely covered and called with from the big blind to score the knockout.
Ciklamini was the last player to head to the rail for a min-cash of €2,429.
With around 120,000 already in the pot before the flop, it was Luis Dono and Tony Lefort heads-up in the hand. The flop fell and Dono announced all-in from the small blind. Lefort was on the button and quickly made the call for his last 92,000.
Luis Dono:
Tony Lefort:
Lefort flopped a flush draw but was still behind Dono's ace-queen high. The turn was the and the river landed the . Lefort was unable to improve and was eliminated at the hands of the chip leader.