In the last hand before the break, on a 
flop, Kjartan Bergur Jonsson lead out for 19,500 from the small blind and Rolands Norietis made the call from the big blind. The dealer put the 
out on the turn and Jonsson kept his foot firmly on the gas by betting 34,500. However, he was quickly on the breaks when Norietis raised it up to 100,000.
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Albert Mykhaylyuta was down to as low as 4,000 chips after having his aces cracked by Jani Sointula earlier on, so he has done tremendously well to grow that to 80,000 just prior to his exit. Inevitably his executioner was Sointula after all the money went in pre flop with Sointula holding 
and Mykhaylyuta holding 
.
The flop brought a little something for everyone when the dealer gave us 
but the neither the spade nor the ten surfaced and Mykhaylyuta was eliminated.
John O'Shea has been grinding a short-stack for a long long time. He said to us earlier that he has never had more than 130,000, and now he never will as he's just busted.
He moved all-in for 55,000 from UTG+1 and was called by Andrey Subbotin in the next seat and Vicenzo Apicella in the cut-off.
The flop came 
and Subbotin checked to see Apicella bet 55,000 out of his 146,000 stack. Subbotin quickly moved all-in and the Italian folded leaving over half his stack in the middle.
O'Shea tabled , needing running cards to best the Russian's 
. The 
turn and river didn't help with that and O'Shea headed off, probably to the PLO side event as that game is a love of his.
Edgars Augstkalns has been sent to the rail after losing a classic poker coinflip. He moved all in with 
over the top of a raise from Lauri Meidla, who held 
The 
flop was almost as safe as it gets for pocket tens and the kept them in the lead. The final community card was the 
meaning Meidla's tens had held and Augustkalns was eliminated.
Rolands Norietis raised to 11,500 in early position and recent WSOP Bracelet winner Joe Ebanks moved all-in on the button for around 95,000 and Norietis made the call.
| Norietis | |
| Ebanks | |
Ebanks took the lead on a flop of 
. The turn of 
was still a safe card but the river eliminated the dangerous Ebanks and Norietis moved up to around 270,000.
Danny Nierop has been eliminated after running his pocket jacks into the black kings of Ronny Kaiser. The board ran out queen-high and we are now down to 30 players.
Jeff Sarwer made it into the money but his table was full of short-to-mid sized stacks making it hard to start building a post bubble stack. Thankfully that table was just broken and Sarwer was moved to the right of Sami Kelopuro. That sounds bad, you might say, but Sarwer wasted little time in doubling up through the Finn.
Sarwer raised to 10,500 from UTG before moving all-in for 80,050 when Kelopuro three-bet from the next seat. Call.
Sarwer: 
Kelopuro: 
The board ran 
and Sarwer was able to relax and sit back down after edgily pacing behind his seat.
Rolands Norietis has a little more breathing room after doubling up through Arvi Vainonkulma. Norietis three-bet all in from the big blind after his Finnish opponent opened fro the hijack and his all in bet was quickly called.
Norietis:
Vainonkulma: 
Final board: 
Praz Bansi has just eliminated Andres Soome to leave us with 32 players. We are not sure how the money ended up in the middle but Bansi had the superior pre flop hand with 
and Soome had .
Board: 
In what is becoming quite a regular occurrence Ronny Kaiser and Lari Sihvo have just butted heads. Kaiser min-raised to 10,000 and Sihvo defended his big blind. The flop was 
and Sihvo check-called a 13,000 Kaiser bet. The turn was the 
and this time Sihvo decided to take the betting lead when he made it 36,000 and Kaiser called. The river was the and Sihvo bet 48,000 and Kaiser verbally declared a call.
| Sihvo |  |
| Kaiser | |
Kaiser winning the pot with the straight.
