Kenneth Smaron opened to 1.2 million and Jan-Eric Schwippert three-bet to 4.4 million. Smaron four-bet all in for around 20 million and the quick call by Schwippert followed.
Kenneth Smaron:
Jan-Eric Schwippert:
The board ran out and Smaron was left drawing dead on the turn.
Marton Czuczor three-bet all in from the button to pick up a call by initial raiser Thomas Muehloecker on the button, who got his last 12.45 million in with the . Czuczor only had and the board came .
Shortly after, Czuczor was all in for around 2.9 million and Julian Stuer called, Philipp Gruissem raised and forced out his fellow German. Czuczor tripled up with versus , dodging the gutshot and one live card of Gruissem on a board of .
In a four-way pot to the flop, only Zhong Chen check-called a bet of Bart Lybaert and did so again after the turn. Chen then checked the river and Lybaert moved all in, Chen snap-called and celebrated when Lybaert opened .
Chen had rivered a full house with and sent Lybaert to the rail. "Wow you got that guy good," Sean Winter in the one seat said. Chen had previously doubled through Lybaert and now took the remainder of his stack as well.
In a battle of the blinds, Mustapha Kanit and Davidi Kitai clashed with the former four-bet jamming and the latter calling for 15 million.
Mustapha Kanit:
Davidi Kitai:
The board of settled the battle of the Winamax team pros for now, as Kitai continued his remarkable run up the leader board throughout the day. There are only 32 players remaining and a brief break will follow to set up the new TV table with four tables remaining.
One player was eliminated over on the feature table with details to come accoring to the 30 minute delay on the live stream. Over on the outer table, Oliver Price disappeared after his failed to get there against Honglin Jiang's pocket fives in a battle of the blinds.
Marton Czuczor had doubled once more and then raised to pick up a call by Ramin Hajiyev on the button. On the flop, Czuczor continued and called the shove of Hahiyev for 8.125 million with the . Hajiyev showed and held up on turn and river.
Aymon Hata doubled through Michael Bailey in a battle button versus big blind when the latter three-bet all in with the and the former called for 18.425 with the . The board came and Bailey was left with 2.5 million, but wouldn't be next to bust.
At the same time one table over, a raising war between Adam Owen with and Martin Kus with brought both their stacks into the middle. Owen held up on a queen-high board and dealt the final blow to Kus.
Back to the other table, Upeshka De Silva shoved from the button for 7.85 million with the and Zhong Chen called in the big blind with , the board of brought no help for De Silva. Right after that, Bailey busted and that reduced the field to the last 26 hopefuls.
Over on the featuere table, Diogo Veiga raised to 1.5 million with the showing and Jan-Eric Schwippert in the cutoff three-bet to 4.5 million eith . Ognyan Dimov in the big blind shoved for 18.575 million with to force out Veiga, Schwippert snap-called.
The board came and that spelled the end for Dimov.