With eight players remaining, it was the Moldovan player Pavel Plesuv who slipped from being high in the chip counts to sitting on the virtual rail. Shoving all-in from the Big Blind with ace-eight, the previous GGMillion$ winner had picked the absolute worst time to bluff-shove, running into the Dutch player Duco Haven’s pocket Kings in the cutoff. The flop came down K-7-7 giving Duco a flopped full house. Plesuv was drawing dead as soon as the 5 came on the turn, but he went home with a solid score of $48,895. 

Another Dutch player wasn’t having such a great time at the final table. Johannes Straver shoved from the big blind with pocket fours, but the initial raiser in the hand, Fabrice Touil, held pocket aces and made the easy call to take out his short-stacked opponent, an ace on the flop preceded a full house for the player sporting the Israeli flag, sending the Dutch player home with $62,609 in seventh place.

Another 30 minutes would pass before, six became five as another giant of the modern game fell. Fausto Tantillo raised to over half his stack with an offsuit ace-jack pre-flop and called it off to race to the river against Haven’s pocket tens. No ace or jack came and Tantillo left in sixth place earning $80,170. He was swiftly followed from the felt by Fabrice Touil, who also lost his tournament life courtesy of a ‘coinflip’. All-in with pocket fours, they were on course for a double-up against Petrone’s queen-ten on a board showing A-7-3-5 but a queen on the river was the final blow and he left in fifth for $102,656.