Davidi Kitai raised to 18,000 from the cutoff and Roman Korenev called out of the big blind to see the . The Russian check-called a continuation bet of 27,000 and then the turn and river were checked through. Korenev showed the and that won the pot.
A maximum of 10 one-hour levels are scheduled to be played today unless the official final table of the last eight is already reached prior to that. In this case, everyone will get to bag and tag early.
After the end of the upcoming level 17, a 75-minute dinner break takes place and another three levels after that remain. Bagging and tagging should occur around midnight at the latest and the action then resumes tomorrow at noon.
Jospi Simunic got involved in a bigger hand with Ivan Luca and check called two streets before checking the river of a board. Luca now bet 57,500 and after not such a long consideration, table short stack Jesper Feddersen asked the dealer if he can ask for time.
The floorman was called and denied the request as not enough time had passed yet. Another minute went bye and then Feddersen asked again. Time was called and Simunic ended up calling off to muck when Luca showed his . Feddersen wanted to play more hands on the old level still to have more fold equity on the short stack, but Simunic wasn't amused at all that the German asked for time so quickly.
In a battle of the two chip leaders, Thomas Butzhammer checked the river of a board and Jonathan Little bet 32,000 out of the big blind. Butzhammer gave it some thought and eventually called out of the small blind. Little showed for a bluff whereas Butzhammer had as winning hand.
Laurent Polito was all in for his last 49,500 chips from early position and got called by Fabio Sperling in the small blind with . Polito had two live cards with and indeed got there on the river of a board.