The new level had just begun and Diego Aranzadi opened to 85,000 chips. Anouar Mehlil moved all in for 825,000 and had almost the same stack as his opponent, though one or two big blinds less. Aranzadi took a long time before making the call and it was a coin flip:
Mehlil: ?
Aranzadi: ?
The roller coaster board of ???? set the official final table and there is now a break. Furthermore, the players will change the room as well for the ultimate showdown in Marrakech.
First Anouar Mehlil defended his big blind against the raise of Ondrej Milabersky and then check-raised the ?? flop from 70,000 to 140,000. The Czech folded and dropped to less than half a million in chips.
One hand later, Mehlil open-shoved the small blind with ? and Milabersky called with ? for his last 450,000 chips. The board ran out ???? and the Czech doubled.
Whereas the bigger stacks are on table 2, the short stacks fight on table 4. Ramona Gallardo defended her big blind against the button-raise of Antoine Rahal and check-called a bet of 60,000 on the ?? flop. Rahal bet again the turn for 100,000 and this time Gallardo check-folded.
A short-stacked Jose Martin moved all in from early position and Matas Cimbolas called from the small blind with ?. Martin held the ? and Cimbolas made a flush on the ???? board.
The action folded to Robert Giordano in the small blind and he moved all in for less than 10 big blinds with ?. Najib Bennis made the call out of the big blind with ? and was guaranteed the knockout after a flop of ??. The meaningless turn and river even gave Giordano a straight to rub it in.
Ricardo Manquant raised, Matas Cimbolas three-bet to 175,000 and reluctantly called the four-bet of Manquant for 375,000 in total. The two of them proceeded to check down the ?? flop and the turn before Manquant won the pot without showdown by betting the river for 200,000.
The action folded to Ramona Gallardo in the small blind and she open shoved into the big blind of short stack Diego Aranzadi. The latter called all in for 385,000 with ? and Gallardo had a huge lead with the ? but the board ran out ????.
Start-of-the-day chip leader Manuel Makiadi raised out of the small blind and Matas Cimbolas slid forward a tower of T-50,000 chips to put his opponent all in. Makiadi eyed the action, gave it some thought and called moved all in for what looked like 750,000 chips.
Makiadi: ?
Cimbolas: ?
The board ran out ???? and Makiadi took his belongings before heading to the payout desk.