Parlafes Plays the Terminator

Dany Parlafes and Vadim Shlez had already tangled prior to the last break and it would take a massive pot to boost the Romanian into the chip lead. Caught in the crossfire was Jerome Zerbib who got it in with pocket fours. The raising action continued between Parlafes and Shlez with the American beeing at risk for more than 500,000 with pocket queens. Parlafes had pocket aces and scooped the humongous pot.

Shortly after, Parlafes raised from the small blind and Tobias Peters defended his big blind. On the flop, Peters got his remaining stack in with for the open-ended straight draw and Parlafes called with . Neither the turn nor the river were what the Dutchman was looking for and Parlafes scored yet another knockout.