After a raise and a three-bet to 5,100 by Vahid Amirzahiri, Michal Mrakes moved all in for his last 10,850 on the button and Rifat Palevic reraised the pot to 42,250 in total. Amirzahiri called, prompting Palevic to say "it's a gamble" and the Swede announced all in in the dark before the flop fell . Amirzahiri called all in for 16,075 and all cards were turned over.
Michal Mrakes:
Vahid Amirzahiri:
Rifat Palevic:
"I missed," Amirzahiri said and the board completed with the turn and river. Amirzahiri's turned top pair and flush draw improved to two pair and he raked in a massive pot while Mrakes was sent to the rail.
On the tail end of a hand between Fabrice Soulier and Vijar Tejapaibul, the former bet 5,500 on the [Ad5as3d4s6s] river and Tejapaibul raised to 18,000. Soulier called and was shown for a straight flush by the Finn, mucking his nut flush and taking a hit early into his second bullet.
On the four-way turn of , Simon Trumper bet 1,000 and Eddie Ochana called from one seat over in the big blind. One fold followed before Björn Muchow raised to 2,500. Only Ochana called and the river was checked to see Muchow turn over for trips fives.
Ochana was left with around 16,000 after the hand and busted soon after on his second bullet of the day.
Vahid Amirzahiri sent Rifat Palevic to the rail to boost his stack further while Krzysztof Magott approached the tournament director desk with a new ticket in hand and the words "I need a good seat draw."
The field size has climbed to 153 entries, of which 100 players remain, and the registration period including unlimited re-entries remains open until the start of level 10 after the dinner break.
Until the turn, there were only around 15,000 in the pot before the things heated up between Ghattas Kortas and Aaron Duczak. The latter checked, Kortas bet 13,000 and Duczak check-raised the pot to get his stack of around 55,000 in.
Kortas eventually called with the for bottom set and Duczak showed . The river failed to improve Duczak and he headed straight to the cashier to re-enter.
Viliyan Petleshkov three-bet and called a four-bet to 16,000 before getting the remainder of his stack in after a flop of . He was called by Dario Alioto with and Petleshkov showed . The turn gave Petleshkov a flush draw on top of his two pair only for the river to counterfit his hand and award the pot to Alioto.
Petleshkov re-entered on a different table right away, as did Anthony Zinno after busting his first bullet.
The flop showed and four players were all in with Thomas Pohnke as shortest stack at 39,000, Anatoliy Zyrin was all in for the starting stack, having just sat down, while Ryan Hughes had them covered by 11,600 and was at risk against table big stack Vahid Amirzahiri.
Let's have a look at the hands:
Thomas Pohnke:
Anatoliy Zyrin:
Ryan Hughes:
Vahid Amirzahiri:
The turn gave Zyrin a flush and the river completed the board. Hughes made two pair to win the small side pot against Amirzahiri while Zyrin quadrupled up.