Sergey Kuzminskiy opened to 80,000 from under the gun, and to his immediate let Mariusz Klosinski three-bet to 160,000. The action then passed around to Diego Gomez in the small blind, who four-bet to 410,000.
Kuzminskiy got out of the way but Klosinski, who is celebrating his 40th birthday today, went deep into the tank. Klosinski stayed in the tank for almost two minutes before he decided to move all in for his remaining 1,995,000 and the spotlight switched to Gomez.
Klosinski rose from his seat and stood with his arms folded across his chest whilst his Spanish opponent considered what to do with his hand. Gomez folded after a minute of thinking and Klosinski helped himself to the pot.
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David Boyaciyan has already been through this stage of the tournament once before. He was runner-up in this event just last year. Sarah talks to him about the secret to EPT Prague.
We are down to nine players in the EPT Prague Main Event, meaning we have reached out (unofficial) final table. We need to lose one more player tonight before we pause the tournament for the last time.
The final table is one player away from being set as Jorma Nuutinen has just been eliminated by David Boyaciyan.
It happened Aleh Plauski opened for 80,000 from early position and Nuutinen three-bet shoved for 530,000 from the small blind. David Boyaciyan then called from the big blind and Plauski got out of the way.
Showdown
Nuutinen:
Boyaciyan:
It was a bad spot for Nuutinen, and according to the PokerNews Odds Calculator, he had just a 23.73% chance of winning compared to Boyaciyan's 75.15%.
Nuutinen would watch those odds slowly drop to zero as the board ran out an unexciting . The Finnish player exited in 10th place, which means the final nine players will combine to one table.
"I'm sexy and I know it," sang Diego Gomez after he doubled through Mariusz Klosinski.
The Spaniard raised to 85,000 from under the gun and Klosinski peeled from the big blind to see a flop appear.
Gomez continued for 120,000 before Klosinski check-raised up to 250,000. Gomez had an answer and it was to three-bet to 525,000. Call.
The turn fell and Klosinski checked to see his opponent snap-shove for 760,000. The Polish player tanked for several minutes before making a big call with . He was in deep trouble though as Gomez opened . The river didn't bring another two-outer miracle for Klosinski as it came .
From the button, Jorma Nuutinen opened on the button and after David Boyaciyan folded his small blind, Sotirios Koutoupas called in the big blind.
The pair shared a flop, Koutoupas check-calling a 60,000 continuation bet. The turn saw Koutoupas check-call again, this time an increased bet of 100,000. The river saw Koutoupas check for a third time, but this time Nuutinen checked behind.