Lithuanian high-staker Tomas Jozonis couldn't get much going today and was down to his last 6,275. In early position, Jozonis picked up and went all in, but ran into the of Anton Hrabchak.
Five blanks spelt the end for Jozonis, who quickly headed out of the tournament area.
Farid Yachou and Pascal Hartmann saw a flop in what looked to be a three-bet pot, with Yachou acting first in middle position. He checked and called 3,800. On the turn, Yachou checked again. Hartmann shoved all in for about 19,000 effective, and Yachou quickly called.
Yachou:
Hartmann:
Hartmann had the 2016 WPT Tournament of Champions winner in bad shape, and the river was a blank.
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After a player opened to 1,200 in early position and another player called, Bart Lybaert moved in for 13,000 on the button holding . A player in the small blind reshoved for 19,000, the initial raiser called all in for 7,000 and the fourth player folded.
Lybaert was up against the of the small blind and the of the short stack. The board ran out , which gave Lybaert a wheel on the river to survive.
After winning a couple more smaller hands, Lybaert sits at 50,000.
Daniel Dvoress opened the action and found calls in two spots; Martin Jacobson in the hijack and Igor Yaroshevskyy in the big blind.
Both Yaroshevskyy and Dvoress checked the flop of and Jacobson bet 2,000. Yaroshevskyy check-raised to 5,600 and Dvoress got out of the way. Jacobson called.
Yaroshevskyy bet checked on the turn and called as Jacobson bet 6,000.
The hit the river and Yaroshevskyy checked again. Jacobson pushed and the decision was on Yaroshevskyy who had a little over 18,000 behind. He tanked for some time before he eventually called.
Jacobson showed but the pot went to Yaroshevskyy as the Ukrainian regular tabled for trips.
There were seats to be filled on the table of Jeffrey Hakim and Ali Reza Fatehi, as Orpen Kisacikoglu and two other players had departed. The new faces included Pascal Hartmann, Andre Akkari and Dan Smith, and Hakim as well as Hartmann are the biggest stacks.
According to Hakim, he got into a five-way pot and defended the big blind with . On a flop of , Hakim check-raised from 5,000 to 16,500 and the initial bettor shoved for 70,000 with the while one of the cold-callers got his remaining 7,000 behind in with kings. Hakim dodged the flush draw and claimed the big pot.
Yorane Kerignard and table neighbor Frank Werder got into a raising war that saw the former end up all-in for less than the starting stack with the . Werder had that dominated with on the button and the board came . The over card and flush draw failed to hit for Kerignard and the Frenchman was eliminated.
We didn't catch the action, but a preflop raising war between Stefan Schillhabel (button) and Joshua Moore (small blind) wound up with the latter all in for 95,000 and called.
Schillhabel:
Moore:
It was a cooler in Schillhabel's favor, and the board ran out , leaving the aces best. Moore seemed none too worried about the nasty scenario he'd run into.
"Happens," he said with a smile. "Good luck, guys."