The chips of Kacper Pyzara had vanished and the Pole left his chair. Stefan Jedlicka confirmed what happened. Down to just 10 big blinds, Pyzara shoved the cutoff with the and Marcin Chmielewski looked up his countryman with the . The better hand preflop held up and Pyzara was gone.
Ben Heath is a man on a mission. He just took out another player of this €10,300 EPT High Roller by cracking the aces of Oleg Titov.
The two of them inevitably butted heads on a board. Titov lead for 20,000, Heath made it 57,500 to go and Titov quickly announced all in. Heath called just as quickly with and was drawing for deuces and diamonds against the of Titov.
It came already on the turn in shape of the , and the last ace didn't surface for Titov on the river, where the was dealt.
Titov let out a sigh of relief and mumbled "Yes" thinking he had dodged the diamonds but was soon made aware of the trips of Heath. The Russian left the tournament area shortly after.
Charlie Carrel raised to 10,000 from the hijack and Farid Jattin called on the button. "How much do you play? 90k?" Martin Finger asked in the big blind and called. On the flop of , Finger checked and Carrel bet 15,000. Jattin folded after some consideration and Finger then pushed forward a stack of blue T-5,000 chips.
Carrel eventually called all in and the cards were tabled.
Charlie Carrel:
Martin Finger:
The turn and river were two blanks and Carrel doubled for 75,500. "Nice hand," Finger immediately said and Carrel replied with a "thank you."
Theo Jorgensen just added a cool 200,000 to his stack after an encounter with Stefan Jedlicka.
Preflop Jedlicka opened to 10,500 from under the gun and called the raise of 27,000 from Jorgensen in the hijack. Flop came down , and Jedlicka check-called a bet of 25,000.
Turn was the and this time Jedlicka opted to check-raise the 50,000 bet of the Dane to 137,000. Jorgensen went into the tank, mulled the decision over in his head and ultimately announced all in for close to 300,000.
Jedlicka didn't even need a count as he instantly released his hand, and the Team PokerStars Pro could add a tower of chips to his already impressive stack.
Roman Korenev raised to 11,000 and [Removed:17] three-bet all in from the cutoff. Ben Heath asked for a count, and once it was determined to be 103,000, he reshoved from the button to get the blinds and Korenev out of the way.
[Removed:17]:
Ben Heath:
The board came and Yan left the table with a "good game" on his lips.
Alexander Ivarsson started the day as the leader of the pack, and in the last hand before the break just furthered his lead.
On a board of Piotr Franczak bet 65,000 into an already massive pot, and after a few minutes of thinking, Ivarsson found the call.
"Ace high", Franczak spoke as soon as Ivarsson's chips hit the felt, and the Pole revealed for the busted flush draw. Ivarsson showed and scooped the huge pot, forcing him to spend quite some time of the break getting his newly won chips stacked.
Folded to [Removed:17] in the cutoff he raised to 8,000. Ben Heath reraised to 23,500 from the button, blinds got out of the way before Yan four-bet to 45,500. Heath didn't waste a second moving all-in, and before the dealer knew what was happening, Yan had announced "Call" and turned over his hand.
[Removed:17]:
Ben Heath:
The flip of almost 300,000 went Ben Heath's way when the board ran out , while Yan still has a playable stack of more than 20 big blinds after the break.