Ferdinando D'Alessio moved all in for 700,000 in the hijack and Daniel Pidun put him at risk under the gun.
Ferdinando D'Alessio: K♠J♦
Daniel Pidun: K♥Q♣
D'Alessio was dominated and the 3♣4♠9♥6♥5♣ board improved neither player, keeping Pidun in the lead with his queen-kicker and sending D'Alessio to the rail.
With the field reduced to the final 32 players and their table set to break, Daniele Sacchi got his shorter stack in from the small blind and was looked up by Gerald Karlic on the button.
Daniele Sacchi: Q♦J♦
Gerald Karlic: A♥10♣
The A♣9♥7♦5♠5♦ board left Sacchi drawing dead on the turn to bow out in 32nd place.
Lulei Hu raised to 110,000 under the gun and Bastian Gallitzendoerfer called in early position.
Hu bet 125,000 on the 10♥9♠3♥, and Gallitzendoerfer came back with a raise to 350,000. Hu called to see the 7♠ turn.
Gallitzendoerfer then bet 250,000 and Hu again called. The J♥ river was checked down, and Hu showed A♠10♦. Gallitzendoerfer, though, turned over Q♦J♠ for a rivered pair of jacks to win the pot.
Alberto Speranzoni raised to 100,000 in middle position and Josef Gulas three-bet to 275,000 on the button. Speranzoni then moved all in, and Gulas called for 475,000.
Josef Gulas: A♠5♠
Alberto Speranzoni: A♥K♣
Gulas was dominated and at risk as the flop came 9♣3♠4♣, giving him some outs with a straight draw. The Q♦ turn was no help, while the river was the J♣ and Gulas' dream of following his son as a WSOP Europe champion came to an end.
In a three-way single-raised pot, the J♠5♠5♦6♥ turn was checked by Ferdinando D'Alessio in the big blind and Jonas Lauck from under the gun while Claudio Di Giacomo also checked behind. The 4♦ on the river was checked to Di Giacomo and he then bet 400,000. Only Lauck called and mucked when he was shown the A♥J♥.
On a completed board of 10♠8♦7♦7♠Q♥ and with around 450,000 in the pot, Gerald Karlic bet 100,000 from the blinds and Catalin Pop called from under the gun.
Karlic showed a bluff with K♠2♠ and lost the pot to Pop's 9♠9♦ for a pair of nines.
Marco Di Persio raised to 100,000 under the gun and Lulei Hu called on the button with A♦J♦.
The flop came 9♣5♦7♠ and Di Persio bet 85,000. Hu called and the 4♦ fell on the turn.
Di Persio checked to Hu who bet 175,000, and Di Persio called. The 3♦ river gave Hu the nut flush, and he bet another 730,000. Di Persio folded top pair with J♥9♥.
Early into the second level of the day on the former feature table, Martin Kabrhel raised to 100,000. Vlad Andrusca pushed all-in out of the big blind for a stack below ten blinds and Kabrhel instantly put in a chip for the call to then roll over his A♦K♣ in the same motion.
Andrusca was behind with the K♠J♥ and Kabrhel was vividly rooting for a jack to hit.
However, the Q♣3♠3♥2♥2♦ board delivered no help to Andrusca and that spelled the end for him in 34th place for €31,000.
