Level: 22
Blinds: 10,000/15,000
Ante: 15,000
Level: 22
Blinds: 10,000/15,000
Ante: 15,000
Only 28 players remain on the first break as the field was cut down further in incredibly quick succession.
Ken Beckers was considering to proceed but ultimately folded as Taras Slabyk looked up the short stack shove by Dominik Paus for around 75,000.
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flop, Paus was still alive but the
turn and
river runout gave Slabyk tens full of jacks.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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1,335,000
135,000
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135,000 |
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Busted |
Orhan Sen was at risk with a short stack and Nolan Curatolo repotted to isolate.
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The dominated pair found no help on the ![]()
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board and Sen became the next casualty only minutes before the first break of the day.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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230,000
65,000
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65,000 |
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Busted | |
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David Hu fell victim of the rampage of Martin Kabrhel and another three players busted in the next two minutes as the final four tables of the tournament were reached.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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950,000
350,000
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350,000 |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
On a heads-up flop of ![]()
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, Tobias Peters check-called a pot-sized bet worth 84,000 by Daniel Ondejka and they got it in after the
turn with Ondejka at risk for around 160,000.
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The
river further improved Peters to a full house and he crossed the one million chip mark.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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1,150,000
430,000
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430,000 |
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Busted | |
Yet another preflop all-in contest saw Portugal's Nuno Miguel Ferrao Do Nascimento at risk and the red-hot running Taras Slabyk looked him up with the far superior stack.
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board, the aces of Slabyk held up as the field was reduced by one contender.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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1,200,000
350,000
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350,000 |
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Busted |
Nolan Curatolo ended up as the player at risk for around eight blinds on the button and was looked up by Blaz Zerjav out of the big blind.
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flop seemingly sealed the double up but Zerjav gained a ton of equity on the
turn with the straight and flush draw. However, the
river was a blank and Curatolo doubled.
Miroslav Pantaleev was not as fortunate and bowed out moments later from a different table, reducing the field to the last 36 hopefuls.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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1,475,000
75,000
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75,000 |
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165,000
44,000
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44,000 |
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Busted | |
The cards of Serok Kilic were already mucked as Jaroslav Peter had the nuts with ![]()
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on a board of ![]()
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Moments later, Thiago Silva de Morgado and Orhan Sen were at risk against the chip leader Blaz Zerjav.
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board gave Sen a straight for the triple up while Silva de Morgado was sent to the rail.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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1,550,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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290,000
65,000
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65,000 |
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145,000
315,000
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315,000 |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
Heads-up to the ![]()
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, Tobias Peters check-called a pot-sized bet worth 84,000 by Daniel Ondejka. They headed to the
turn on which Peters bet more than 200,000 and Ondejka snap-folded without asking for a count on the bet.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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1,600,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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720,000
237,000
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237,000 |
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250,000
25,000
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25,000 |