During the seventh round of hand-for-hand play, Fouad Zouiten shoved all in for 41,000 from mid-position and was called by Serdar Demircan in the big blind.
Fouad Zouiten:
Serdar Demircan:
The board ran out for Zouiten to hold and double up.
During the sixth round of hand-for-hand play, Artem Kobylynskyi raised to 15,000 from the hijack and Andrea Ricci three-bet to 50,000 from the cutoff. Action folded back to Kobylynskyi who tanked and then called.
The flop came , Kobylynskyi tank-check-called the 40,000 continuation-bet of Ricci.
The turn was the , Kobylynskyi now checked and then tank-called the 69,000 bet of Ricci.
The river completed the board with the , Kobylynskyi checked for the last time. Ricci bet 140,000. Kobylynskyi tanked for about four minutes and then decided to shove for 214,000 in total. Ricci's turn to tank but he ended up folding.
During the fifth round of hand-for-hand play, Ryan Riess raised to 12,000 from the early position and Alexandru Papazian three-bet to 42,000 from mid-position. Action folded back to Riess who tanked and then four-bet to 80,000. Now it was Papazian's turn to tank and he decided to put Riess all-in with the bigger stack. Riess snap-called.
Ryan Riess:
Alexandru Papazian:
The board ran out for Riess to double up again for the 213,500 he had in front of him.
During the third round of hand-for-hand play, Zhong Chen doubled Luis Faria up on the flop for 66,500. Chen held and Faria had . Faria was ahead with the set of deuces. The rest of the board was completed with the on the turn to give Chen a straight draw but the on the river secured Faria a double-up.
Over on the other table, Mehmet Kacar was heads-up against Fabio Damaso who was at risk for 80,000.
Fabio Damaso:
Mehmet Kacar:
The board ran out for Kacar's aces to hold and eliminate Damaso in 145th place.
During the second round of hand-for-hand, Ryan Riess was all-in from the button for 115,500 after he had limped in and called by Miguel Iglesias in the big blind.
Ryan Riess:
Miguel Iglesias:
The board ran out for Riess to have the higher full house for the double-up.