At the previous level, Sameer Khurana shoved all in for 107,000 and action folded to Alexander Ivarsson in the big blind. After thinking briefly, he called.
Ivarsson:
Khurana:
"What were you thinking about, you had ace-king?" Khurana asked.
The board ran out , and Ivarsson took it with the flush.
Niall Farrell opened for 23,000 under the gun and William Kassouf called. Kassouf's neighbor Steven Thompson Vila squeezed to 100,000 and action got back to Farrell. He pushed all in and Kassouf quickly folded. Vila called.
Steven Thompson Vila:
Niall Farrell:
The board came and Vila more than doubled his 345,000 stack.
From the cutoff, Yang Zhang raised to 25,000 with about 200,000 or so behind. Grzegorz Wyraz in the small blind pushed all in and Isaac Haxton, one of the shortest stacks in the tournament, folded. Zhang instantly called.
Grzegorz Wyraz:
Yang Zhang:
The board ran out and Zhang was already drawing dead on the turn.
Bartlomiej Machon got his stack of 283,000 in pre with aces against the queens of Mustapha Kanit. The aces held for a double. At another table, Maroun Jazzar with a miniscule stack of under 50,000 doubled through Paul Hoefer with against .
"I told you, if you are gonna raise all the time, you're gonna be short stack" needled Farid yachou his neighbor Niklas Astedt. Moment before he had rivered a queen to double through him.
The Swede and the Dutchman got it in before the flop with for Astedt and for Yachou. The board ran out and Yachou doubled his 256,000-stack.