Alex Bilokur opened the hand with a raise to 20,000 from the hijack. He got two callers, both of them with position; Andrew Chen in the cutoff and Anatoly Gurtovoy on the button.
Bilokur continued for 26,000 on and Chen instantly gave up. Gurtovoy made the call though and they were off to see a turn: . Bilokur checked to Gurtovoy, who opted to check behind.
The river made Bilokur check again. This time around, Gurtovoy didn't check behind. He bet 30,000 and Bilokur had the decision. Bilokur made the call and Gurtovoy tabled just . Bilokur showed his winning and took it down.
A double up for Pascal Lefrancois, all in with against Finger's . The board came and Lefrancois flopping a house to leave the German almost drawing dead on the flop.
It didn't take too long to burst the money bubble.
In the first hand of hand-for-hand play, Davidi Kitai opened for 17,000 under the gun and action folded to Igor Yaroshevskyy, who was in the big blind and extremely short stack. The Ukrainian wasn't about to try to grind it out and instead splashed in his stack of 28,000. Kitai called and the two had to wait several minutes while action concluded at the outer tables.
Eventually the time came for them to turn up their cards.
Kitai:
Yaroshevskyy:
Yaroshevskyy was behind, but at least he was drawing to two live cards. The flop didn't hit him directly, but it did give him a gutshot to go with his live cards. The turn was no help to him, and neither was the river. With that, the bubble was burst.
Yaroshevskyy's elimination in 32nd place means the remaining players are guaranteed a minimum payday of €46,150.
The board read and Martin Finger made a bet of 130,000 which was about a pot sized bet. Byron Kaverman went deep in the tank. If he made the call it would be for most, but not all of his stack. There had been an all-in and a call on a different table and as they were hand for hand there was no question about him stalling for time.
Still the minute ticked by and eventually Finger called the clock on him. With five seconds to go Kaverman released his hand.
Finger showed the assembled crowd his stone cold bluff much to the appreciation of Scott Seiver. Kaverman didn’t look too happy about it though.
With 32 players remaining, and 31 in the money, it's officially bubble time now. One more player will leave empty handed, all others await a prize of at least €46,150.
Igor Yaroshevskyy raised it up under the gun to 16,000. Action folded to Andrew Chen in the cutoff who three-bet all in for 131,000. The other players folded and Yaroshevskyy instantly called.
Chen knew he was in trouble with his as Yaroshevskyy tabled just as quickly.
The flop would save Chen though: . The on the turn and on the river were blanks and Chen doubled up.
and Seiver moved all in.
but Seiver had turned trips with his 
hand. The river was the 
and Seiver doubled up.
and Chen instantly gave up. Gurtovoy made the call though and they were off to see a turn: 
. Bilokur checked to Gurtovoy, who opted to check behind.
made Bilokur check again. This time around, Gurtovoy didn't check behind. He bet 30,000 and Bilokur had the decision. Bilokur made the call and Gurtovoy tabled just 
and took it down.
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and Mateos doubled up.
against Finger's 
and Lefrancois flopping a house to leave the German almost drawing dead on the flop.
stone cold bluff much to the appreciation of Scott Seiver. Kaverman didn’t look too happy about it though.
.
. The 
on the turn and 