Antoly Filatov and Sorel Mizzi departed within moments of each other at different tables.
Team Russia's Filatov earned two points for busting third; he shoved with and ran into Alexander Dovzhenko's . The board ran .
Mizzi has had a tough day trying to win flips and he lost another one to bubble the points at Table 2. He moved all in for 24,500 from under the gun and as called by Dan Smith in the big blind.
Ole Schemion raised from he button with and Mustapha Kanit moved all in from the small blind. Paul Tedeschi, the short stack at the table, opted to call all in to try to make something happen with his chip position and Schemion folded.
Vladimir Troyanovskiy was one foot out the door just minutes ago when he got it in with against Isaac Haxton's . The flop was , prompting Haxton to say "That's not your flop!"
Troyanovskiy got up from the table, put on his jacket and was about to head out. The flop might not have been good, the turn and river sure were though: , .
Double up for Troyanovskiy who would go on a rampage from that moment on. First Haxton got eliminated and then Troyanovskiy knocked out Giuliano Bendinelli in fourth with against (board: .
Not much later he also knocked out Bertrand Grospellier in third, again with aces.
Vladimir Troyanovskiy heads up with a demanding lead against Marc-Andre Ladouceur on Table 1.
We are down to three players on the featured table, as Ole Schemion just knocked out Ivan Soshnikov in fourth place. Paul Tedeschi and Mustapha Kanit are also still in contention for the top spot in this heat.
There's a lot of conversations going on between the members on Team USA. They're very confident in their position but wary on to fronts:
Firstly, Ole Schemion and Philipp Gruissem both have good stacks at their tables and two wins could seal the victory they crave. Secondly, Italy - even adrift in third - have all five players remaining and could score big points.
Isaac Haxton, a star of the team with two wins and a second, is the player going around the tables, checking on his four team mates still in. One of them, Bryn Kenney, is having a jolly old time cracking aces.
He raised to 2,000 and called after Ami Barer three-bet all in for 8,825.