Roei Motola raised to 110,000 and Gabriel Gavrila three-bet to 230,000 from the button. Motola folded and was shown the .
Over on the outer table, Cosmin Cimpeanu took down a small pot against William Hens and the action went back to the feature table.
Gavrila raised to 90,000 from the cutoff and Adrian Stefan Calusaru shoved the button for 710,000. Martin Wendt asked for a count, and knew he was covered, but wanted the extra information. Wendt then folded, as did Gavrila.
Dan Murariu open-shoved for 585,000 and the action folded all the way to Nikita Malinovskiy in the big blind, who quickly called over on the outer table.
Dan Murariu:
Nikita Malinovskiy:
The board came and Murariu doubled up thanks to a runner-runner straight to leave the Russian short.
Juho Launonen raised from under the gun and Ionut-Alin Tambura called on the button. Launonen bet the flop for 115,000 and Tambura called before the Finn shoved the turn to force a fold.
Hand 2
Tambura opened to 90,000 one hand later and Launonen shoved the big blind. Tambura asked for a count and folded when it was 1,035,000 in total for him to call.
Dan Murariu raised to 85,000 from the cutoff and Eli Heath three-bet to 245,000 from the small blind to force a fold.
One hand later, Heath made it 90,000 to go from the button and Gordon Plomp shoved the big blind, Heath snap-called and tabled . Plomp had the and they chopped it up.
Gordon Plomp shoved from early position into the big blind of Eli Heath not long ago and got through with it. The Irishman had asked for a count, looked at the tournament screen and folded.
Then, Plomp shoved the button for 490,000 and Cristian Dan asked for a count also. The shove was for 490,000 and that proved to be too much for the Romanian.
The early momentum over on the feature table belongs to Eugen Chiva. He raised to 90,000 from the hijack and Gabriel Chiva three-bet to 255,000 on the button. Chiva called and the duo checked through the flop of . On the turn and the river, the action went check, check, also and Chiva claimed the pot with the .
On a heads-up flop of , Cosmin Cimpeanu bet 150,000 and was called by Cristian Dan over on the outer table. The then appeared on the turn and Cimpeanu shoved, Dan quickly released his cards into the muck and both players were about even in chips.
Martin Wendt open-shoved for 265,000 from the button and was called by Roei Motola in the big blind.
Martin Wendt:
Roei Motola:
The flop came and Wendt improved, then demanded "just a deuce please". The turn mde things very sweaty, but the river was a blank and Wendt doubled. "I open my range and this is what happens," joked Motola after having doubled three times with pocket kings yesterday.
On the outer table, Eli Heath raised to 80,000 from the hijack and Nikita Malinovskiy three-bet to 205,000 in the small blind, Heath called. On the flop, Malinovskiy checked and Heath bet 175,000, which the Russian called.
He did so again for 385,000 on the turn before checking a third time on the river. Heath then fired his third barrel worth 550,000 and that scooped the pot uncontested.