Patrick Leonard opened from the cutoff to 16,000 and Masashi Oya made a big three-bet to 88,000 out of the big blind. When it got back to Leonard, he used some extra time before he shoved for around 300,000. It was Oya's turn to go into the tank, and after around a minute, he elected to lay it down.
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Table 3 has quite the lineup of players and it's also where one of the current chip leaders, Steve O'Dwyer, is located.
In a recent hand, Patrick Leonard raised from under the gun to 16,000 and O'Dwyer called from the small blind. They checked it down to the river on the K♠6♣A♠2♦3x board where Leonard check-folded to a bet of 40,000 from O'Dwyer.
Seated at the same table are Masashi Oya, Jessica Teusl, Roman Stoica, Stoyan Madanzhiev, Biao Ding, and Stephen Song!
Jeremie Zouari was getting out of his chair and preparing to leave the table, after his A♣J♥ had come off second best to Yahor Dambrouski's Q♠J♠ on the 10♦4♠2♣J♣Q♣ runout.
Niklas Astedt raised to 16,000 from the cutoff and Kazuomi Furuse shoved for around 60,000 out of the small blind. Astedt called.
Kazuomi Furuse: A♠7♥
Niklas Astedt: 6♣6♠
It was a flip that Furuse needed to win. However, the board ran out 9♣8♣3♦9♥4♣, and Astedt's pocket sixes held up, sending Furuse to the rail.
Dmitrii Astratov raised to 16,000 from middle position with Roberto Romanello making the call from the cutoff.
The two players saw the dealer fan out a flop of 9♠Q♥J♦. Astratov checked, and Romanello put out a bet of roughly 36,000. Astratov immediately folded and surrendered the pot to Romanello.
Around 44,000 was in the middle already on a flop of J♦8♥4♥ in a hand between Jelle Moene on the button, and Shankui Li in the big blind.
Li jammed the flop for 31,000, and after some thought, Moene made the call.
Shankui Li: K♥4♣
Jelle Moene: A♦5♥
Li was ahead with third pair fours versus Moene's ace-high, and his double-up was confirmed by the 10♣8♠ turn and river.
With around 80,000 chips already in the pot on a board of J♠6♥J♥10♠, Elias Gutierrez fired a bet of 20,000, which Yulian Bogdanov called.
They both watched the 8♣ hit the river, and after thinking for the full 30 seconds, Gutierrez checked. Bogdanov didn't need to think for too long before he checked back. Gutierrez tabled 10♣9♥ for a pair of tens, and Bogdanov mucked,
Masashi Oya opened to 18,000 under the gun, and was met with a three-bet to 57,000 by Steve O'Dwyer in middle position. Action folded back to Oya, who made the call.
On the J♠5♠5♥ flop, Oya check-called versus a bet of 40,000 from O'Dwyer.
The A♠ turn was an action killer and both players checked, and that pattern was followed on the 10♣ river.
Oya tabled 9♠9♥ for two pair, nines and fives, but O'Dwyer took the pot with K♣J♥, giving him two pair, jacks and fives.
Diogo Coelho opened from middle position and Arsenii Karmatckii three-bet from the hijack. When it got back to Coelho, he shoved, and Karmatckii called for his stack of around 100,000.
Arsenii Karmatckii: K♦K♥
Diogo Coelho: Q♠Q♦
Karmatckii was well in the lead and looked set to double up, until the flop of Q♣9♥4♥ gave Coelho top set. The 4♦ on the turn gave Coelho a full house, and Karmatckii couldn't find a king on the 8♣ river, which meant he was eliminated.