At every Championship event, the overall best performing player wins entry into a big freeroll that will take place during the PCA 2018 in January.
Adrian Mateos leads the leaderboard right now, but there's some competition still active in this €10,000 High Roller who could spoil it for the Spanish high roller.
Markus Durnegger and Ryan Riess built a pot of about 90,000 and checked through the turn to a final community of . Durnegger was in the big blind and bet 30,000 on the end, and Riess shoved all in for about 140,000, inducing a snap-fold and a sigh.
Felipe Ramos was one of the seven players buying in at the start of the day, but he's now just been eliminated.
According to Ramos, the hijack opened in a hand where the big blind was missing. Ramos shoved for 60,500 from the cutoff. The blinds folded, the initial raiser called with while Ramos tabled offsuit.
Ramos outflopped his opponent as it came . The on the turn was still save too, but the on the river definitely wasn't for Ramos.
Sergio Aido was in middle position and already had a time extension in front of him on a completed board of . Aido had put in a bet of 45,000 and was facing an all-in shove from Preben Stokkan, who had the button and about 120,000. Aido dropped in some calling chips and turned over but Stokkan had him crushed the whole way with .
Despite the loss, Aido's still significantly above where we last noted his count.
We missed the pre-flop action but Felipe Ramos told us later that Nick Petrangelo had opened under the gun and Danut Chisu had three-bet to 21,000 from the cutoff. Petrangelo called.
Petrangelo checked on and called the 25,000 bet that followed from Chisu.
Both players checked on the turn and the completed the board. Petrangelo checked again and Chisu bet 70,000. Petrangelo moved in for 116,000 total, 46,000 more to Chisu.
Chisu tanked for quite a bit, using two time bank cards in the process to get two minutes of extra time.
"This would be a sick slowroll!" Petrangelo said to his neighbor who nodded in agreement.
Eventually, with just a few seconds left to act, Chisu called.
Petrangelo showed for the flopped full house, Chisu mucked but his hand was shown to be .
After a Rocco Palumbo open to 7,000 and a Sam Greenwood three-bet to 21,000, Christopher Kruk made it 57,000 to go from the big blind. Greenwood stuck around and they saw a flop. Kruk bet 32,000 and Greenwood called. On the turn, Kruk fired again for 65,000. Greenwood gave it up.
Palumbo asked Kruk to show a black card and the was revealed.
JC Alvarado and Jake Cody saw a flop from the blinds and Alvarado checked. Cody bet 7,000 and Alvarado made it 18,000. Cody peeled but they both checked the and as the board became scarier and scarier.
From early position, Pavel Plesuv opened for 7,000. Big blind Anton Wigg called to see a flop heads up.
Wigg checked on and called the 6,000 bet that followed.
On the turn, Wigg check-called another 25,000 before checking a last time on the river. Plesuv thought about it for a little bit but checked behind and conceded after Wigg showed .
Ping Lin got his stack of about 50,000 in preflop holding and was leading the of DJ Alexander. The board ran out and Alexander shipped over a double worth most of his own chips.
At a nearby table, Alexander's fellow American, Ryan Riess, is trending the other way after he just doubled up. We didn't see his opponent's hand, but Markus Durnegger was sending over the requisite chips after a board of hit the felt, making Riess good for quads.