With the pot already up to over 35,000 and a board that read , Said El Yousfi was facing an all-in bet for his tournament life. The culprit was Belgium's Cheng-Wei Yin, who put El Yousfi for effectively 15,000 all in.
It took El Yousfi nearly four minutes to come to a decision, then decided on a call. Yin showed and slowly, El Yousfi tabled the winner with .
With , the Moroccon player with the illustrous name Lamzariki Lamzariki Hassan saw a flop of appear. The player to his left bet 1,600 and got two callers. Lamzariki Hassan raised to 3,650 and the initial better shoved for 22,000. The other callers folded and Lamzariki Hassan instantly called.
The all-in player held and was nearly drawing dead. After the turn and river, he had to make his way to the rail.
With the pot up to 16,000, Erwann Pecheux was faced with a decision for his tournament life. His opponent, a player only known by his moniker Mentoro, moved in for effectively Pecheux's remaining stack of 12,000.
The board read and Pecheux had a visibly tough decision. After tanking for several minutes, Mentoro eventually called the clock on him. With mere seconds left in his final minute, Pecheux elected to fold his hand.
An all-in shove of 5,625 from a short stacked player from under the gun got called by Toufik Ourini. The player at risk held and Ourini tabled . A king on the flop sent the short stack packing and helped the hometown player up the leaderboard.