It was all-in preflop between Maria Zijthof and Volodymyr Khakhula.
Volodymyr Khakhula:
Maria Zijthof:
The flop came giving a monster draw for Zijthof to knock out Khakhula. The turn was the giving Zijthof a straight. The river was the and Khakhula was eliminated.
Leonardo Romeo raised to 4,200 from the hijack and Makarios Avramidis three-bet to 13,300 from the big blind. Romeo called and the flop came . Avramidis bet 12,000 and Romeo flat-called.
The turn was the and both players checked. The river was the and again both players checked.
Avramidis turned over . There was a pause before Romeo, with a certain confidence in his action, slammed face up on the table.
There was a moment's pause and expressions of shock on the faces of his tablemates, before Romeo realised that the pocket Queens he thought he had were nothing more than Queen-high, and Avramidis took down the pot.
Despite being down since the break, Stanislav Koleno bet 4,500 when Volodymyr Khakhula checked to him on a board. Khakhula called and the river was the .
It was checked once more to Koleno who bet 9,700 and his opponent called. Koleno showed for a pair of nines and that was good enough to take down the pot.
58 players are going on a break from a starting field of 318. When they return the blinds will be 1,000/2,000 with a 300 ante. Only 48 places will be paid today so there are just ten eliminations separating players and a min-cash.
There was an audible "ooo" from Roland Israelashvili and Amine Bellal's table. There was a three-way all in with the aforementioned pair both holding Ace-King against a third player's pocket sevens.
The flop came and there was no help for the all-in player on the turn or the river and he was eliminated.
"Blind on blind," said Israelashvili, pointing to Bellal, "Who said you can't chop it up in a tournament?"