Aliaksei Boika raised from the hijack to 1,500 and Jun Hyoung Ki called on the button. Floyd Rosner reraised to 11,500 and both other players called.
Action went to the flop and the dealer rolled over . Floyd Rosner bet out for 6,500, Aliaksei Boika called and Jun Hyoung Ki called. The turn was the . Rosner bet out 11,500 and his bet was enough to force both Boika and Ki out of the pot.
Jun Obara raised from middle position to 1,500 and Axel Hallay called from the hijack. Aleksandar Tomovic then made it 6,500 to go from the big blind. Obara and Hallay both put in the calling chips, and it was three players to the flop.
That flop fell and Tomovic led out for 6,500 chips. Obara called and Hallay got out of the way. The turn saw another bet by Tomovic, this time for 7,000. Again, Obara called rather quickly.
The river was the and this time Tomovic slowed down and checked. Obara did not have to think long before in he put a stack of T-5000 chips, effectively putting Tomovic all in for around 18,500.
Tomovic reached the end of his shot clock and tossed in a time bank extension. He did not need much of it, however, as he put in the call not five seconds later.
Obara showed that he had rivered two pair with . Tomovic frustratingly showed his that was good until the river. He tossed the cards face-up in the middle and took his leave.
Meanwhile, Obara is now playing well over three starting stacks, counting him among the chipleaders of the tournament.
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Tom Orpaz was in the small blind in a heads-up pot against Max Silver on the button on a flop of .
Orpaz bet 4,000 and Silver called. Orpaz then checked on the turn and Silver checked back. The river put four hearts on the board and Orpaz bet a hefty 15,000. Silver gave it some thought and called.
"Flush is good," Orpaz said in defeat as he showed a bluff with .
Silver turned over for a flush and raked in the pot as Orpaz looked disappointed at the runout.
Around the same time at a nearby table, Will Kassouf fell to Pawel Krol when he moved in with against the of Pawel ahead of a runout of .
"How do I not get there?! Cooler!" Kassouf said as he left the table.
Mario Navarro Arrocha made a late position raise and Benjamin Chalot reraised the button to 8,000. Arrocha went all in for his remaining 20,000 and Arrocha made the call. Players flipped their cards.
Mario Navarro Arrocha:
Benjamin Chalot:
The board ran out . That gave Arrocha two pair with aces and kings and he doubled up. Chalot is now down to around half the starting stack.
Brian Kim opened to 1,500 from early position and Soo Jo Kim flat-called on the button before Nozomu Shimizu three-bet to 6,500 in the big blind. Both opponents called.
The flop of checked through and Brian Kim bet 6,300 on the turn. Soo Jo Kim folded and Shimizu called. Shimizu checked again on the river and Kim checked back. Shimizu tabled for a pair of aces and it was good it win the pot.
The last hand before the break, in the previous level, saw four players heading to a three-way all-in situation.
The action started when Hakim Zoufri raised to 1,100 from middle position. It folded to Ivan Deyra on the button, who flat called. Small blind Jamil Wakil and big blind Victoria Livschitz followed suit, and the quartet saw a flop.
A straight flush board of was what the deck presented the players with. The first three players to act checked to Deyra, who put out a bet of 1,500. All players still liked their hand enough to see a turn with, and they all called.
The turn is where the hand really took off. After everyone checked to Deyra once more, he raised his bet sizing to 5,500. Wakil quickly got out of the way, but Livschitz looked at her last 13,800 chips, sighed, and put them in the middle. Zoufri then used a time extension before putting in six T-5,000 chips. The 30,000 raise was enough to cover Deyra's 22,700 stack.
Deyra responded by throwing all his time bank cards towards the dealer, indicating that he was going to be in the tank for a while. When he emerged, he had two of them left, and had decided to make the call.
Victoria Livschitz:
Ivan Deyra:
Hakim Zoufri:
Livschitz had the nuts, leaving Deyra drawing dead for the main pot. Zoufri had a set and thus needed the board to pair to scoop the entire pot.
The river was the and Livschitz tripled, while Deyra's straight won him the side pot. Livschitz could not believed what had happened, as all three players left to quickly took what remained of their break.