Not long ago, Nicolas Nicolopoulos had doubled up through the pair of nines of Mike Gerry, holding the . Now it was a raise to 36,000 by Mohamed Mamouni and the three-bet of Nico Lombaerts to 81,000. Gerry moved all in for another 282,000 on top and Lombaerts eventually called.
Gerry:
Lombaerts:
A board of evened out the field as Lombaerts dropped below one million in chips.
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Julien Brulet opened to 35,000 and called the shove of short stack Bart De Roose for 66,000, flipping over his . De Roose had a coin flip with and the board ran out .
On a flop of , Yehoram Houri moved all in for what appeared to be around 170,000 chips and the pot was 120,000 chips. Day 1a chip leader Mike Gerry would have to risk more than one third of his stack and folded.
Over on table 8, short stack Dimitri Monfroy shoved for 150,000 and claimed the blinds and antes.
A short-stacked Barny Boatman moved all in for less than 100,000 from under the gun and Erwann Pecheux called out of the small blind. Boatman had a flip with the against Pecheux's but couldn't find enough diamonds on a board of .
The tides have been changing quickly and suddenly Niko Koop was all in and at risk for his last 250,000 chips with against the of Christian van der Haegen. The board ran out and Koop was sent to the rail in 25th place.
Heinrich Pauker opened the action with a raise to 25,000 and Alexander Ivanov called all in for 24,000 with pocket sevens. Pauker had and immediately spiked a king on the flop to send Ivanov out of the tournament.
After a raise to 25,000 and the small reraise of Heinrich Pauker, Pieter de Korver moved all in for 91,000 and Pauker called off.
de Korver:
Pauker:
It was a roller coaster board that saw Pauker flop two pair on , de Korver turn the straight with the and then see his opponent make a flush thanks to the river in order to score the knockout.
. Now it was a raise to 36,000 by Mohamed Mamouni and the three-bet of Nico Lombaerts to 81,000. Gerry moved all in for another 282,000 on top and Lombaerts eventually called.
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