Riccardo Saitta was all in and at risk for the last few big blinds with and Janosch Siefert looked him up with the . The board came and Saitta became the latest casualty. Timo Brammer exited right after from a different table to reduce the field further.
There were two all in and call at separate tables. Salvatore Greco survived with versus while Petr Vlcek became the bubble boy. He moved all in for 90,000 over the top of a 12,000 raise and two calls. The initial raiser and Konstantinos Tsirakidis folded, but Rafi Elharar eventually made the call.
Petr Vlcek:
Rafi Elharar:
The board came and Elharar turning an unbeatable full house to let the bubble burst in the very first hand. Expect the floodgates to open now with plenty of shorter stacks still in contention.
David Domjan and Jihad Bejjani have been eliminated to reduce the field to the last 62 hopefuls. Bejjani was unfortunate enough to run with the second best starting hand into the one hand that tops it all.
Jihad Bejjani:
Jan Bendik:
The board came and Bejjani was ousted just shy of the money. Hand-for-hand play will commence shortly and two minutes will be taken off the clock for each hand.
Vasileios Tsaknis had Mohamed Chakroun all in and at risk for 78,000 and the player from Lebanon had the slightly inferior kicker with . Tsaknis held the dominating and remained in a comfortable lead on the flop and turn.
Chakroun had some chop outs and got there with the river much to the delight of his nearby rail.
Elena Litvinyuk is no longer in her seat and Erich Kollmann confirmed that he won the most classic of coin flips with ace-king versus pocket queens to bust Litvinyuk before the money. There are only 64 players remaining now and the top 61 will cash for at least €802.
There are only 71 players remaining and 61 of them will take home a portion of the prize pool. Among the recent casualties were Asher Dahan, Adrian Rus, Evian Christ and Danny Covyn.