On a board of Purice checked, and Mateos bet out 9,000. Purice called and the two players saw the on the turn. Again Purice check-called, this time a bet of 21,000 from the EPT Grand Final Champion.
The river was the and Purice checked a third time, and Mateos fired a third time for 55,000. Eventually Purice made the call and Adrian Mateos showed for a rivered straight. That take him up among the chip leaders as the money bubble approaches
Mike McDonald raised to 11,000 from the small blind and Pierre Calamusa defended his big blind to see a flop of . The Frenchman called the continuation bet worth 11,000 before both players then checked the turn. On the river, McDonald check-raised all in and Calamusa more than happily called with while McDonald only held the ole six-three.
Calamusa started the day as one of the short stacks but is suddenly back in contention.
After a raise to 8,000, small blind Bart Lybaert made the call. In the big blind, Lucas Reeves shoved all in for 120,000. The initial raiser folded, but Lybaert made the call.
Former railroad conductor, 2009 WSOP Main Event and WSOP Europe Main Event finalist James Akenhead has finally put a stop to the runaway train that Scott Margereson had become.
Akenhead got it in with the versus Margereson's and won the flip, making a set on the board to stave off elimination and double through.
Margereson still has close to 500,000, but for the first time in a long time, he's trending downwards.
Joining the action on the turn, Christoph Vogelsang check-raised from 9,000 to 28,000 out of the big blind and Michal Rudnik called. They then checked down the river and Vogelsang's ended up second-best to the of Rudnik.
One table over, Gaelle Baumann fired three barrels on the board for 12,000, 20,000 and 36,000 respectively to see Joao Baumgarten call her down with on the button. Baumann only had and dropped some, while Baumgarten moved above average.
The action folded around to [Removed:4] and he open-shoved from the small blind into short stack Guy Goossens. The Belgian called for his last 45,500 with and was ahead of the of the German. The board came and Goossens doubled.
A short-stacked Fernando Brito moved all in for 22,500 on the feature table and Francisco Oliveira called on the button, the players in the blinds folded. Brito was flipping with against the of the Portuguese and the board ran out .