A big pot was in progress between Norbert Szecsi and Dominik Panka. With 250,000 in the middle on a board, Szecsi used a time bank before betting 155,000.
Panka, who famously won the 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, tanked before letting his hand go into the muck.
Tomasz Cybulski shoved from the hijack for his last 30,000 from the hijack and was called by Bryn Kenny in the small blind while Petr Hlavacek folded his big blind.
Tomasz Cybulski:
Bryn Kenney:
The board ran out for Kenney to hold and eliminate Cybulski.
Hady El Asmar raised to 20,000 from the hijack and Ngoc Minh Hoang jammed the cutoff for 115,000. Kemal Aslan went all-in over the top for three times as much in the small blind and that forced out El Asmar.
Ngoc Minh Hoang:
Kemal Aslan:
The board gave both players two pair and since neither of them had a club on their hand, it was Hoang that headed to the rail.
With 85,000 chips in the middle on a river, it appeared that Erwann Pecheux had moved all in for 41,000 and Mohamed Mokrani had called.
However, despite the dealer announcing all in before Mokrani called, Pecheux had a 1,000 chip behind and therefore wasn't all in. The issue arose whether Mokrani's stack which he used to call with constituted a raise that would actually put Pecheux all in.
Tournament staff conferred with one another, and eventually took the ruling higher before returning to the table. The ruling was that Mokrani was only able to call Pecheux's bet and the cards were turned over.
Pecheux held for queens and sevens, but Mokrani had turned a full house with . Pecheux was left with 1,000 but would bust on the very next hand.
Vasileios Tsaknis had a big race with against the of Fidan Zahiti and saw his hopes of an even deeper run vanish as the board provided the king on he turn for Zahiti.
Shortly after, Yake Wu was spotted on his way to the payout desk.
"I just couldn't believe him. I called all in for 30 big blinds with ace-ten, he had ace-queen," Wu said on his way out. "He" in this case was Glib Kovtunov, who moved up to more than half a million in chips.