Julian Thomas had won a bigger pot while Rainer Kempe dropped to a short stack. Kempe then took on Gaelle Baumann in a duel button versus big blind. On the river, Baumann checked and Kempe announced a bet of 10,900 while he had 11,000 at his disposal.
Baumann called and tabled her already, thinking it was an all-in showdown as Kempe had moved forward all his eleven T-1,000 chips. "I get 100 back," Kempe told the dealer and was able to muck his cards since it was in fact no all-in showdown.
Kempe survived the next showdown but ultimately bowed out shortly after.
Action folded around to Parker Talbot, in middle position, who opened to 1,800 only for Panagiotis Gavriilidis to reraise to 5,000, in the seat to his left. All other players folded and Talbot made the call.
On the flop of , Talbot check-raised to 10,500 over Gavriilidis' 5,000 bet and Gavriilidis called to see a turn.
The turn came and Talbot continued his aggression with a bet of 8,000 which Gavriilidis called once more.
On the river Talbot bet 12,500, putting Gavriilidis all in and Gavriilidis called.
Talbot showed for the flopped flush which Gavriilidis could not beat.
Heads-up to the turn, Paraskevas Tsokaridis checked and subsequently called a bet worth 3,000 by Benjamin Winsor. The same procedure followed on the river for 12,000 and Winsor tabled the for a turned straight. Tsokaridis earned the split pot with after making the same straight eventually.
Winsor's rise has continued as he now already boasts a six-figure stack.
In a three-bet pot between Ivan Zhechev and Juha Helppi, the former check-called a bet worth 4,000 on the flop and checked again the turn. Helppi bet 11,000 and Zhechev took a few seconds before he pushed all-in. No call by Helppi followed as he eyeballed the stack of Zhechev worth around 29,000 for a very brief period before folding.
Alessio Isaia was committed to the pot for the last of his small stack and Ognyan Dimov had him at risk from the next seat over with the cards already on their backs.
Alessio Isaia:
Ognyan Dimov:
The board ran out and Dimov flopped a set of queens to secure the elimination of Isaia.