Petar Kalev opened to 120,000 on the button. Fabrice Bigot just called in the small blind. Parker Talbot moved all in for 1,170,000. from the big blind Underrepped from the small blind, Bigot made the call.
The board ran out to keep Talbot in the lead and get yet another double to move further up the leaderboard.
In a single-raised pot in a battle of the blinds, Paul-Adrian Covaciu checked the flop and called a bet worth 50,000 by Javier Gomez Zapatero. On the turn, Covaciu checked again and Gomez Zapatero bet 250,000 to win the pot.
Gomez Zapatero then made it 100,000 to go on the button for both players in the blinds, Luigi D'Alterio and Antoine Saout, to call.
The flop brought and it checked to the initial raiser, who bet 85,000 to force two folds.
Javier Gomez Zapatero raised to 100,000 in the hijack and was called by Luigi D'Alterio in the cutoff. They went heads-up to a flop of and checked through to the on the turn.
Gomez Zapatero fired out a bet of 175,000 and D'Alterio called to see the on the river. Gomez Zapatero sized up a bet of 850,000 this time which put the Italian in the tank. After using three of his time banks, D'Alterio finally made the call. Gomez Zapatero flipped over for the nut flush and raked in another huge pot.
Istvan Pilhofer opened to 90,000 from under the gun. On his left, Benjamin Lebor three-bet to 235,000. Jordan Saccucci cold four-bet to 675,000 from the small blind.
Pilhofer went into the tank but he somehow found a fold with the queens, the third best hand. Back on Lebor, he only called to head to a flop with kings and aces in play.
The flop came the , and Pilhofer looked disgusted that he would have flopped a set of queens. Saccucci led for 900,000 from the small blind. With 2,690,000 in his stack, Lebor went into the tank. Eventually, he moved all in.
To a runout, the ultimate cooler got it all in on the flop. The turn came the , giving Labor more hope with a flush draw. The biggest river card of the tournament fell the , and Labor looked shell-shocked as he watched all of his chips head to the new chip leader Saccucci.
Jun Obara raised to 100,000 and Javier Gomez Zapatero called in the big blind. The flop was checked to Obara, who bet 90,000 and won the pot.
Ionut-Flavius Voinea opened to 100,000 next and folded when fellow countryman Paul-Adrian Covaciu three-bet to 260,000 on the button.
Gomez Zapatero raised to 100,000 on the button and folded to a shove by Antoine Saout in the big blind.
Luigi D'Alterio then raised on the button and Obara flat-called in the big blind. The entire board was checked and Obara won the pot with the as D'Alterio mucked the .
Javier Gomez Zapatero opened to 100,000 from under the gun and was called by Luigi D'Alterio on his left. Jun Obara three-bet to 435,000 on the button which put Paul-Adrian Covaciu in the tank in the big blind.
After a time bank, Covaviu shipped all in for 1,470,000. Gomez Zapatero quickly folded but D'Alterio asked for a count as he mulled it over. D'Alterio eventually folded as well and Obara followed suit as he dumped his cards to the muck as well.
The action started with a raise to 100,000 by Jun Obara and he picked up two callers out of the blinds in Javier Gomez Zapatero and Luigi D'Alterio. On the flop all three players opted to check.
Gomez Zapatero bet the turn for 225,000 and D'Alterio folded while Obara made the call. Another bet worth 675,000 by Gomez Zapatero followed on the river and Obara called within ten seconds. He was shown the for a flopped flush by Gomez Zapatero and that won the pot.