We caught the tail end of a very big pot between Jimmy Guerrero and Jan Bendik. On a board of we saw small blind Oren Rosen bet out 180,000. Big blind Jan Bendik made the call before Jimmy Guerrero squeezed to 750,000. Rosen folded, Bendik made the call.
The river came the and Bendik checked. Guerrero carefully cut out 1.5 million and slid them forward. Bendik instantly called, but angrily mucked his upon being shown Guerrero's .
Bendik was a bit on tilt after that, motioning the camera's to go away. The next hand though, the sky would clear up for him again.
Mohamed Aissani made it 110,000 to go from first position and his neighbor Jimmy Guerrero made the call. Small blind Jan Bendik still seemed agitated and shoved all in for 1,845,000. Aissani moved in over the top and Guerrero folded.
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Mohmaed Aissani raised to 135,000 under the gun with and Jimmy Guerrero three-bet from the cutoff to 375,000. The flop brought out and Aissani checked to Guerro who had flopped a set of queens with .
Guerrero bet 125,000 and Aissani raised to 250,000 quickly. Guerrero made the call and on the turn the hit.
Aissani moved all in for 615,000, and he got snap-called by Guerrero.
The river brought the and Aissani left the tournament in eleventh place.
Adrien Allain in the hijack made it 135,000 and his neighbor Enver Abduraimov in the cutoff three-bet to 300,000. Action folded back to Allain and the Frenchman made it 775,000. Abduraimov just about instantly called upon learning how much it was.
The flop came and Allain continued for 500,000. Abduraimov didn't waste any time raising to 1.2 million and Allain answered with an all in for 2,065,000. Abduraimov asked for an exact count, and called.
Adrien Allain:
Enver Abduraimov:
The on the turn gave Abduraimov some new outs, but the on the river wasn't one of them. Double up for Allain.
Ben Philipps was talking to his neighbor Dario Sammartino how there was a money bubble going on, and it wasn't fair that play was a bit slower at the feature table. Floor Kate Badurek later informed the table that they were keeping track of the amount of hands played at both tables, and that they would take action in case the difference would grow to big.
Down to 1,010,000 now, Enver Abduraimov shoved all in from the cutoff. Action folded to small blind Ben Philipps who thought about it for a bit before folding, later claiming to have had . Big blind Asan Umarov instantly called.
Enver Abduraimov:
Asan Umarov:
The flop came , doing nothing for Abduraimov. The on the turn even made things worse as he lost some of his outs. The on the river made Umarov a flush and Abduraimov made his exit in 10th place.
The tournament is now down to 9 players, all guaranteed €71,620 from here on out. The two tabled are merged to one with a full redraw. There is talks about them moving forward the dinner break by 44 minutes, expect an update as soon as a decision has been made.