According to Jeffrey Hakim, Pasquale Gregorio won a huge flip in the previous level with against for an effective stack of 96,000 and the Italian emerged victorious. Gregorio just raised to 2,500 and picked up two callers in the blinds. They checked to him on the flop and Gregorio bet 4,000, Khorshid Sakhra called from the small blind and the other player folded.
On the turn both players checked and Sakhra took the pot with a bet of 7,200 on the river. The table broke straight after, though.
Cristiano Blanco opened for 2,500 from middle position and Charlie Carrel called from the cutoff. EPT11 Grand Final champ Adrian Mateos then three-bet to 11,000 from the small blind, and Blanco thought for a bit before using two hands to slide out all his chips, a total of 42,200. Carrel quickly folded and Mateos wasted little time in making the call.
Blanco:
Mateos:
It was a flip, but Mateos needed to improve if he hoped to eliminate Blanco. That proved easier said than done though as the board ran out pjsqd9c6s7d]. Mateos missed and sent about half his stack across the table.
Brian Yoon opened to 2,700 from the cutoff and Bart Kuiper called from the button. Pasquale Gregorio in the big blind squeezed to 10,200 and just Kuiper called.
The two big stacks bot checked the flop and the hit the turn. Gregorio bet 9,200 and Kuiper called. The river saw both players checke again and Gregorio showed while Kuiper had . Chop it up!
Joining the action on the turn with 25,000 chips in the pot, Michael Gathy checked in the cutoff and Joni Jouhkimainen bet 12,500 from one seat over on the button. Gathy called and they then checked the river. Gathy showed and that won the pot.
Farid Jattin opened for 2,800 from the cutoff only to have Team Online's Isaac Haxton three-bet to 8,200 from the button. The blinds both folded, Jattin called, and the duo watched the flop come down . Jattin proceeded to check-call a bet of 6,700, and then checked the turn.
Haxton fired again, this time 11,000, and it did the trick as Jattin released his hand.
Over on the feature table, Kellyann Heffernan raised to 2,500 and Andy Black called all in for his last 900 chips. Dzmitry Urbanovich came along from the big blind and check-called the flop for 2,400. On the turn, Urbanovich checked and then folded when Heffernan made it 2,500 to go and the model turned over . Black had the and the river ensured the split pot.
Mateusz Rypulak raised to Sebastian Pauli moved all in for 15,100 with the . Rypulak called with and had the EPT11 London champion drawing dead to outright win the pot after the flop . The last queen in the deck came on the turn, but it was already too late and no card could help Pauli anymore.
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