Maria Lampropulos raised to 20,000 on the button before Igor D'Ursel moved all in for around 160,000 in the small blind. Lampropulos tanked for a moment before calling.
Igor D'Ursel:
Maria Lampropulos:
Lampropulos was dominated but leapt into the lead on the flop, making two pair. The board ran out and D'Ursel quickly made his exit.
Byron Kaverman raised to 79,000 from early position, leaving only a few thousand behind, and Daniel Camelo Da Silva raised in the cutoff. Kaverman took a little time with an upcoming pay jump before putting in his remaining chips.
Byron Kaverman:
Daniel Camelo Da Silva:
Kaverman was in rough shape with the inferior kicker, and was in even worse shape as the dealer put the flop onto the felt. The turn provided a few more outs, but the river changed nothing to send him to the rail.
Emmanuel Lopez opened from the cutoff and a player flat-called before Gaelle Baumann three-bet to 90,000 from the big blind. Lopez then four-bet jammed to get the hand heads-up and Baumann called with her stack of 527,000.
Gaelle Baumann:
Emmanuel Lopez:
Baumann had Lopez by a few pips and nothing changed as the board ran out to earn the French pro a double.
The very next hand, Gonzalo Pro opened to 20,000 in middle position and Lopez flat-called as the player next to act. Artur Martirosian then three-bet jammed a stack of 234,000 from the button and Pro re-shoved behind him as the table chip leader. Lopez snapped with a smaller stack.
Artur Martirosian:
Emmanuel Lopez:
Gonzalo Pro:
Neither Martirosian nor Pro could hit as the board ran out for the queens of Lopez to stay ahead to earn him a massive pot for the chip lead and send the Russian on his bike.
"Good for me, good for you," Lopez laughed to Baumann. "It's a gift."
With around 80,000 already in the middle, Noah Boeken moved all in from the big blind for 155,000 on a board of and was called by Pedro Cavalieri from under the gun.
Boeken turned over for a rivered two pair and Cavalieri showed for just a pair of aces as he handed over the pot to Boeken.
Lucas Silva Rocha and Alexandre Landron were heads-up on a flop of when Landron bet 115,000 from the hijack and Silva Rocha called on the button.
The turn came the and Landron moved all in. Silva Rocha snap-called for his last 405,000, creating a massive pot of more than 1,000,000 chips.
Lucas Silva Rocha:
Alexandre Landron:
Landron had run into the worst cooler and couldn't hit the miracle two-outer on the river. He took the beat in stride and simply shrugged as he paid off Silva Rocha, who now has one of the largest stacks in the room.
With roughly 280,000 in the pot on a flop, Joris Ruijs had bet 40,000 in the big blind, Martin Olali raised to 90,000 in early position, and Ruijs jammed. Olali snapped it off for his 279,000 chips.
Martin Olali:
Joris Ruijs:
Ruijs appeared to have coolered Olali having been dealt the superior premium pocket pair, but the flop flipped it around. The and completed the board to confirm the result, and Olali collected the sizeable pot from the Dutchman.
After winning many pots today Claudio Di Giacomo has built a big stack and was at it again in a blind on blind battle between Usman Ulhaq in the big blind.
In a pot of roughly 70,000 on a flop of , Di Giacomo led out for 20,000 and Ulhaq completed. The hit the turn and both players checked their options.
The completed the board and Di Giacomo sized up to 80,000. Ulhaq went in the tank but eventually let his hand go, awarding the pot to Di Giacomo who rolled over the while stacking his chips.
Chino Rheem was just moved to a new table with Michael Wang, Jack Salter, and Ben Diebold.
"This is one tough table," Rheem said upon taking his seat.
"Me? I don't know how to play this game," Diebold joked as Rheem got involved in one of his first hands dealt from the big blind, calling a raise to 23,000 from Remigiusz Wyrzykiewicz.
Both players checked the flop before Rheem led out for 35,000 on the turn. Wyrzykiewicz called, then called another bet of 80,000 on the river.
"Tens are good. Jacks are good. Whatever you have," Rheem said as he showed . Wyrzykiewicz turned over to take the pot.
"I just set myself up to give it away to my friend, whatever your name is. How are you supposed to pronounce that," Rheem said as he took a look at Wyrzykiewicz's player ID. "That's the longest name I've ever seen. I'm just going to call you Remi."
The next hand at this table, Igor Pihela got his last 117,000 in the middle against Salter with against .
Salter paired his ace on the flop and Pihela stood up and prepared to make his exit, but the on the turn improved him to a straight and he secured the double up on the river.