After an early position open from his opponent, Kush Kataria had moved all in next to act for 22,800 and action folded back to his opponent that called putting cards on their backs, with Kataria at risk.
Kush Kataria:
Opponent:
The board of was clean for Kataria as he celebrated his double, putting him close to starting stack once again.
The floor was called to this hand involving Damir Zhugralin after some controversy at showdown. The hand started normally, after an open from the under-the-gun player, the player who was next to act flat-called before Zhugralin made it 4,000 from the hijack. With the action back on the opponents, they both called to set up a flop.
The flop brought a continuation-bet from the Kazakhstani previous Merit event winner, and again, both players called the bet of 4,100.
To a turn of and a similar story occurred, both players calling once again to the 5,000 bet this time, from Zhugralin.
At the river, it checked around. This is where things got a bit heated, as the under-the-gun player turned over for a busted flush draw, the next player mucked but when action was on Zhugralin, he at first slid his cards across the table towards the dealer. He then realized he had the best hand and quickly retrieved his cards he had let go of and turned over his for top pair.
His opponent wasn't best pleased with this as he called multiple floor members over, who ruled in Zhugralin's favour as he didn't announce a fold and his cards were not touching any of the other face down cards. The hand left Zhugralin's opponent on just 1,000 chips and chipped Zhugralin up.
With action on the turn with the board reading , Can Miral had moved all in for around 13,000 with approximately the same amount of chips in the pot already from the big blind versus the button of Onur Ozgur.
Ozgur called it off and cards were on their backs.
Can Miral:
Onur Ozgur:
Ozgur was ahead with top pair against the same straight draw and Miral, he just needed to fade the queen and he did so on the river, moving him close to double starting stack and eliminating Miral.
With 16,000 in the middle on a completed board of , the cutoff bet 18,000. Yiannakis Papapetrou in the big blind shoved all in for 41,600.
The cutoff went deep into the tank retracing the action verbally. After a couple of minutes, Papapetrou asked for the clock. The cutoff made the fold before a tournament director could reach the table and the Cypriot takes in a big pot.