With the action having resumed after the dinner break for both Pot-Limit Omaha Events, Vadim Zakharyan opted to enter to bring the field up to 30 entries with 23 players still in contention. Zakharyan finished seventh for €25,500 in Event #8: €5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha, which is slated to play down to a winner tonight on the nearby feature table.
Three ways to the A♦Q♣2♠ flop with 5,600 each invested, Michael Tabarelli checked, and Dennis Weiss bet 12,000. Robert Cowen called all in for 1,800, and Tabarelli folded.
Robert Cowen: K♦Q♦Q♠8♣ 
Dennis Weiss: A♥K♥7♦6♦
The 4♦ turn and 6♠ river completed the board, and Cowen nearly tripled.
Level: 7
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 1,600
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The players have been sent on a 40-minute dinner break, with play due to get back underway at approximately 10:07 p.m. local time.
After losing half of his stack, Dorel Eldabach had taken a break and returned to a single-raised three-way pot with Harald Casagrande and Nikolaos Lampropoulos. They checked all the way to the K♣Q♣Q♦3♣9♥ river, on which Casagrande bet 7,000 and got two folds.
That was the last hand before the dinner break, but at the same time, a pot of 22,500 had emerged one table over with the turn showing A♣Q♦10♣7♠.
Javier Francort checked from the small blind, and Robert Cowen bet 21,200. Francort check-raised all in for 65,400, and Cowen very reluctantly called for the vast majority of his stack.
Javier Francort: K♣J♥6♥5♠
Robert Cowen: A♦K♦K♠8♦
Francort had flopped Broadway to overtake Cowen's pocket kings. Cowen needed a jack to chop, but the 2♥ river was a blank to leave him on fumes.
Three players limped in, and Bouwe Claushuis in the big blind then made it 6,600 to go. Robert Cowen called, as did Filip Lovric on the button with a severe short stack behind. On the K♥Q♥5♦ flop, Claushuis check-called a bet of 2,500 from Cowen, while Lovric folded with around four blinds behind.
The 3♥ turn saw another check-call by Claushuis for 6,500, and both players checked the 4♣ on the river. Claushuis tabled A♦10♥5♥4♦ for a flush and won the pot.
One hand later, Lovric was all-in and called by Jeremy Trojand, in the big blind, as well as Michael Tabarelli. Both active players checked down the 9♣5♦2♥6♣8♣ board. Trojand tabled his Q♠10♠7♥3♥ for a straight. Lovric had A♣J♦J♣2♣ for the ace-high flush for the triple-up. Tabarelli mucked his cards initially, but as per the all-in showdown rule, he had to expose his A♥K♥10♥10♦.
Harald Casagrande opened to 3,000 under then gun, and received calls from three players, including Maksim Shuts in the small blind.
The K♠7♦4♥ flop was checked to the A♣ turn, where Casagrande fired out a bet of 8,000 when action was checked to him. Only Shuts called.
The K♣ river completed the board, and Shuts quickly check-folded versus a bet of 25,000 from Casagrande.
A pot of 41,500 had developed by the river, on a board of K♣J♠5♠Q♦8♦, in a hand between Robert Cowen on the button and Michael Tabarelli in the big blind.
Tabarelli fired out a pot-sized bet, and Cowen went into the tank.
After around two minutes, Cowen made a reluctant call, and mucked with frustration when Tabarelli tabled A♦10♠K♠5♦ for the turned nut straight.
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