The three tables have been formed, the players are in their seats again, and play has started.
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With the tournament down to 24 players, the players are redrawing. Exact chip counts to follow.
Muhyedine Fares opened the hand with a raise to 28,000 and his neighbor Liviu Ignat in the hijack shoved all in for what appeared to be 170,000 or so. Action folded rapidly back to Fares and he called.
Muhyedine Fares:
Liviu Ignat:
The board ran out and Ignat hit the rail in 25th place (€34,400).
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Muhyedine Fares |
700,000
300,000
|
300,000 |
Liviu Ignat | Eliminado |
Christopher Frank is the big winner on the 2nd feature table so far today, but Jose Carlos Garcia is still the chip leader with 1,240,000
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Jose Carlos Garcia |
1,240,000
-184,000
|
-184,000 |
Ole Schemion |
903,000
187,000
|
187,000 |
Christopher Frank |
685,000
266,000
|
266,000 |
Connor Drinan |
678,000
-212,000
|
-212,000 |
Romain Paon |
636,000
44,000
|
44,000 |
Hady El Asmar |
471,000
-69,000
|
-69,000 |
Mustapha Kanit raised to 25,000 from the hijack after starting the hand with around 20 big blinds. Geilich called from the big blind and both players saw a flop of .
Geilich check-called Kanit's bet of 16,000 and saw the on the turn, and Geilich decided to bet out 51,000. With just over 200,000 behind, Kanit shoved and Geilich snap-called.
Kanit:
Geilich:
Kanit was drawing to a chop, but the on the river sealed his fate, and the winner of the One-Day €50k earlier on in the festival was eliminated in 26th place.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Ludovic Geilich |
764,000
240,000
|
240,000 |
Mustapha Kanit | Eliminado | |
|
After suffering a bad beat with Jacks versus Ace-Jack in the penultimate hand before the level, McEathron was all-in for his last 16 big blinds against Connor Drinan.
McEathron:
Drinan:
The board ran out and McEathron was flushed out of the Main Event.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Connor Drinan |
890,000
159,000
|
159,000 |
Ryan McEathron | Eliminado |
Nível: 21
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 2,000
A 15-minute break for the players. Here are the chip counts of all the players:
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Jose Carlos Garcia |
1,424,000
-32,000
|
-32,000 |
Koichi Nozaki |
1,262,000
247,000
|
247,000 |
Scott Clements |
1,200,000
291,000
|
291,000 |
Johnny Lodden |
1,117,000
119,000
|
119,000 |
Anatoly Chen |
1,000,000
13,000
|
13,000 |
Juan Martin Pastor |
939,000
-111,000
|
-111,000 |
Tom Hall |
863,000
163,000
|
163,000 |
Connor Drinan |
731,000
-2,000
|
-2,000 |
Ole Schemion |
716,000
-54,000
|
-54,000 |
Dmitry Ivanov |
655,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
Dario Sammartino |
647,000
87,000
|
87,000 |
Adrian Mateos |
627,000
-88,000
|
-88,000 |
|
||
Anton Astapau |
600,000
39,000
|
39,000 |
Romain Paon |
592,000
-108,000
|
-108,000 |
Hady El Asmar |
540,000
220,000
|
220,000 |
Markus Ross |
530,000
182,000
|
182,000 |
Ludovic Geilich |
524,000
-18,000
|
-18,000 |
Joao Simao |
505,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
Vladislav Donchev |
425,000
-3,000
|
-3,000 |
Christopher Frank |
419,000
-151,000
|
-151,000 |
Muhyedine Fares |
400,000
-39,000
|
-39,000 |
Mustapha Kanit |
248,000
-18,000
|
-18,000 |
|
||
Stephen Chidwick |
236,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
Lyndon Basha |
232,000
-71,000
|
-71,000 |
Liviu Ignat |
213,000
-45,000
|
-45,000 |
Ryan McEathron opened from the hijack for 20,000. Pastor in the small blind before Frank shoved from the big blind for around 260,000.
McEathron made the call and Pastor folded.
McEathron:
Frank:
The Canadian player was ahead on a flop of and on the turn , but there was an ace on the river as the meant Frank doubled up and McEathron was left with 16 big blinds.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Christopher Frank |
570,000
394,000
|
394,000 |
Ryan McEathron |
160,000
-133,000
|
-133,000 |