In a preflop all-in contest featuring "ChoochMcGee" out of the small blind and Roland "Gwriden" Rokita on the button, it was the former at risk covered by just a few blinds.
"ChoochMcGee":
Roland "Gwriden" Rokita:
Rokita struck gold on the flop and the turn changed nothing whatsoever. The fell on the river and that sent "ChoochMcGee" out in 11th place.
Aki "Seabossss" Virtanen jammed from under the gun and found a customer in Aleksejs Ponakovs in the cutoff.
Aki "Seabossss" Virtanen:
Aleksejs Ponakovs:
The flop ensured that Virtanen would have a sweat for the remaining two community cards. What followed were the turn and the river to give Ponakovs the top two pair and eliminate Virtanen in 12th place.
In a battle of the blinds, Vladislav "imjuniar" Mezheritsky clashed with "Elcorneto" and had the slightly superior stack and kicker.
"Elcorneto":
Vladislav "imjuniar" Mezheritsky:
The flop favored "Elcorneto" and it held on the turn and river.
Mezheritsky then found an ace and jammed for the last of it from the cutoff. Aki "Seabossss" Virtanen raised to 210,000 in the small blind and that isolated successfully.
Vladislav "imjuniar" Mezheritsky:
Aki "Seabossss" Virtanen:
Virtanen flopped a pair on and turned trips to leave his opponent drawing dead to the 58d] river.
Roland "Gwriden" Rokita pushed several times and it was not unusual that he also did so out of the small blind with just short stack "Kojaque" to get through. However, the call by the Irish player followed to set up the following showdown.
"Kojaque":
Roland "Gwriden" Rokita:
Rokita took the lead on the flop, then had a sweat on the turn. A blank followed on the river and "Kojaque" departed in 14th place.
Giovanni "HEIZENBERG_G" Zanette opened the action with a raise to 105,000 and "xllllll" then jammed out of the small blind for 769,609, a quick call followed.
"xllllll":
Giovanni "HEIZENBERG_G" Zanette:
Nothing changed on the flop and turn. Zanette then made eights full on the river and "xllllll" departed in 16th place for $9,562.
Alyssa "xAlyssaTTV" Macdonald had lost a big chunk of her stack in a flip with "Mike Rossitto" and then jammed the button soon after to get isolated by Jon "Marklanders1" Garde in the small blind.
Alyssa "xAlyssaTTV" Macdonald:
Jon "Marklanders1" Garde:
The superior hand prevailed on a board of , and Macdonald bowed out in 18th place for $8,281.
Two three-way pots reduced the field to the final 20 contenders as Arkadiy "Kamsky" Tsinis and Simon "FiestaPagana" Mattsson departed at nearly the same time.
Tsinis raised to 320,000 with 43,744 behind and was called by Roland "Gwriden" Rokita and "xllllll". As they headed to the flop, "xllllll" bet 280,000 and Tsinis called all-in, Rokita check-called. The turn was checked and Rokita then jammed the river for 735,075 to force out "xllllll".
Rokita tabled just but that was enough as Tsinis held for an even worse hand.
The other hand was a brief affair. Big stack Jon "Marklanders1" Garde pushed the button with , Vincent "Peleus34" Li called in the small blind with and Simon "FiestaPagana" Mattsson called as the shortest stack with in the big blind.
Brock Wilson jammed the remainder of his short stack out of the small blind with the and was called by his previous nemesis Vladislav "imjuniar" Mezheritsky in the big blind, who tabled the .
The flop improved Wilson and he remained ahead with the turn. However, the river gave Mezheritsky a pair of kings.
One hand later, David Peters raised to 800,000 in the small blind and then called it off for the few chips he had behind when Aki "Seabossss" Virtanen pushed.
David Peters:
Aki "Seabossss" Virtanen:
The board provided no help and Peters was gone next.