A few players have busted recently, though in a very short time. Among them was also Tom-Aksel Bedell, who was at risk in a battle of the blinds against Sam Greenwood for roughly 15 big blinds. Bedell held the and Greenwood the .
On the turn, Bedell had two over cards and the open-ended straight draw, yet the river bricked.
There were 99 unique entries and 35 reentries to create a prize pool of €1,299,800 and the top 17 spots will share a portion of the money. The bubble will be played on three tables of six each and the minimum payout is worth €20,405 whereas the winner receives juicy €327,030 for the efforts.
Whether the tournament will be over tonight or at a later point during the festival is not clear yet.
Akin Tuna moved all in for 62,500 from the button and Thomas Muehloecker called out of the big blind with . Tuna was ahead before the flop with but Muehloecker made a flush on the board and scooped the pot.
Vladimir Troyanovskiy was enjoying a very decent start early on but it must have gone downhill a lot. For around 10 big blinds he got it in with the and Muehlecker had him dominated out of the small blind with . The board provided no help for the Russian and he was gone.
Mikita Badziakouski open-shoved from under the gun for 61,000 and Dylan Linde reshoved from late position double the stack to isolate successfully. Linde showed the and Badziakouski was in bad shape with but picked up the straight draw on the flop . The turn was no good yet, but the river completed a straight for the Belorussian.
Adrian Mateos was less fortunate, he busted at almost the same time.
In the last hand before the break, the board is already completed with and Jean-Noel Thorel checked. Theo Jorgensen moved all in for what looked like 150,000 with and Thorel called with to scoop a massive pot.
According to Thorel, he opened preflop and called the three-bet to 50,000 before both players checked the flop. Thorel then bet the turn for 100,000 and was called before check-calling the river.
Dylan Linde was all in with Ivan Luca and Mukul Pahuja still to act on the river . Pahuja pushed out Luca to scoop the side pot while showing and Linde tripled up with . He moved back up to starting stack, unfortunately that's only 10 big blinds for the current level though.