In a battle of Belorussians, Mikalai Vaskaboinikau moved all in for 326,000 and Ihar Soika eventually called from one seat over in the battle of the blinds. Vaskaboinikau had the and faced the of Soika to emerge victorious after a board of .
Mukul Pahuja made it 55,000, Martin Finger bumped it to 135,000 on the button and after the blinds folded, Pahuja shipped it in.
Finger called off his 750,000-chip stack with and was up against Pahuja's .
The board came to the turn, but the river was not a good one for Finger. His kings were suddenly cracked and as Finger went to the cage to collect 11th-place money, Pahuja joined Byron Kaverman at the top of the counts.
Roberto Romanello raised to 53,000 and was called by Vladimir Dobrovolskiy in the big blind. The Russian checked the flop and Romanello then continued for 65,000. Dobrovolskiy called and checked the turn. The Welsh wizard made it 105,000 to go and that won the pot, flipping over for the successful bluff with a short stack.
At the same time as the seat open on table two, Mukul Pahuja raised from under the gun and Byron Kaverman called to see the flop of . Pahuja continued for 52,000 and was called before firing the turn for 125,000. Kaverman raised to 320,000 and Pahuja called, then checked the river. Kaverman gave it some thought and eventually checked behind to muck to the of Pahuja.
Ihar Soika raised to 50,000 from the button and Dominik Nitsche defended his big blind. Both players checked the flop and the on the turn provided a second flush draw. Nitsche bet 40,000 and that won the pot.
Dominik Nitsche raised to 50,000 from the cutoff in the last hand of the level and the action folded to Mikalai Vaskaboinikau in the small blind. He moved all in for around 630,000 and had Nitsche covered. The German snap-called for just under 500,000 chips and they tabled the cards.
Nitsche:
Vaskaboinikau:
The flop fell and Nitsche immediately shook his head, fully aware of the additional outs through the flush draw. While the on the turn changed nothing whatsoever, the on the river completed the flush and Nitsche let out a short sign of disgust while Vaskaboinikau banged on the table in excitement.