After a relatively short period of hand for hand play, the bubble was over ("Franjo" out in unlucky 441st) and the first prizes awarded. "UFO777" Mikhno eliminated Niko "Emotion 98 3" Mykkanen in the explosive minute that followed the bubble. Mikhno opened to 40,000 and Mykkanen moved all in for 285,563. Mikhno made the call, finding himself just out-pipping his at-risk opponent.
Mikhno:
Mykkanen:
The board ran out , leaving the 440 remaining players with a WSOP cash in the bag.
Jans Arends choppe with Christopher "Mangudai" Frank in the previous hand and then three-bet jammed his huge stack following a min-raise to 32,000 by Hongming "HomiEx" Zhou.The call of Zhou followed as the following cards were turned over.
Hongming "HomiEx" Zhou:
Jans Arends:
The board ran out and Zhou doubled.
Bert Stevens was not as fortunate when he got into a multi-street action with "Bernie169" and raised the flop, bet the turn for 64,000 and called a check-raise to 208,000.
Stevens had 33,608 behind and reluctantly called the shove of "Bernie169 after the river with only to find himself up against for a flopped set.
Benjamin "l3enny" Ezer and Francisco "neliosss" Llorens have been eliminated one table away from the bubble and received their buy-in back as tournament dollars. The field is now down to 443 players and the money bubble is looming with trey minutes left in the level.
Getting close to the bubble, a near million-chip pot went to "gaoyuan1508", as they picked up preflop, four-betting Bae "LJ1857" Myeongji (and initial raiser "VovoWilson") all-in for 425,646. "VovoWilson" folded, but Myeongji, who'd three-bet to 132,000, called quickly.
Myeongji:
"gaoyuan1508":
The two-outer hit on the turn of a board, making it very unlikely that Myeongji will now see the right side of the bubble.
Martijn "visacard" Gerrits min-raised to 24,000 from under the gun and was called by big stack "ChanLI" in the cutoff. "Yangbailao" then jammed out of the small blind and Gerrits reshoved to get heads-up.
"Yangbailao":
Martijn "visacard" Gerrits:
Nothing at alll changed on the board to send the pot to Gerrits.
Jose "robertoduran" Severino was the shortest stack returning from the break and jammed the small blind with the , which was called by "SHARAKU" in the big bllind with the .
The board ran out and that spelled the end for Severino.