Andrey Shatilov called a raise of Marko Neumann and the two of them headed to the flop. Shatilov raised the continuation bet of the German from 1,400 to 3,600 and was called before leading the turn for 4,500. This time it was Neumann who called and then faced a 9,500-bet once the river had appeared.
The EPT 10 Vienna third-place finisher released his cards and Shatilov is up to six digits.
Serdar Demiroglu limped for 400 and Shyam Srinivasan raised to 1,400 from one seat over. Everyone else got out of the way and Demiroglu called to see a flop of . Demiroglu check-raised from 1,400 to 10,000 and called the shove of the Canadian for 28,700 with .
The PCA finalist turned over his for the nut straight but another ten on the turn immediately destroyed all his hopes for another deep run.
Almost at the same time, Christopher Frank and [Removed:17] took coin flips with ace-king against short-stacked opponents and failed to improve. Raphael Blouet doubled up for 19,375 with against the of Frank on a board of .
Then, Olov Matias Jansson's immediately connected with the flop to better the of Yan. Both the turn and the river were blanks and Jansson doubled for 13,475.
Marius Pospiech called a raise to 1,000 and then Adria Maria Balaguer moved all in for 3,600. Both the initial raiser and Pospiech called and checked down a queen-high flop. The German then bet after a on the turn and the third player in the hand folded. Balaguer had and the river brought no ace or ten.
Christopher Frank is already up nicely after signing up for the event not long ago. He opened to 1,000 and was called by the player in the big blind to see a flop of . A continuation bet of 600 was called before the turn and river were checked by both. Frank showed the and won the pot against the of his opponent.
One hand later, Frank opened to 900 and foldd when Fabrice Soulier three-bet to 2,200. "You thought I am playing crazy and on tilt?" the German asked and laughed.
Ilkin Amirov folded to a 6,800 bet of Martin Finger on the river and then got involved into yet another pot with the former EPT Prague champion as well as Bernd Vogelhuber in the big blind.
Amirov bet the turn for 8,100 and Finger folded whereas Vogelhuber check-called. The on the river saw another check by the German and he snap-called the 15,700-bet of Amirov to see his opponent muck his cards. Vogelhuber didn't reveal the cards either and then stacked the chips while starting to enjoy a massage.
Olov Matias Jansson opened for 700 from the hijack and then called when Canada's Martin Giguere three-bet to 2,000 from the hijack. The flop saw Jansson check-call a bet of 3,200, and then both players checked the turn as well as the river.
Jansson tabled the for a pair of fives, but it was no good as Giguere held the . With that, Jansson dropped to 40,000 in chips while Giguere chipped up to 38,000.