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Level 18: 6,000/12,000 (12,000)
Entries: 167/1,444

Karl-Heinz Metz opened for 20,000 from middle position before Ronald Zapantis three-bet to 75,000 from the hijack. Xavier Zuczkowski four-bet shoved for 113,000. Metz folded and Zapantis called with Zuczkowski at risk.

Xavier Zuczkowski: A♦K♥
Ronald Zapantis: 9♣9♥

The 5♥8♦4♣3♦8♣ runout ran dry for Zuczkowski and he along with Yoan Dody, Giuseppe Marone, and James Clarke in different hands found themselves with chips nor a chair near the money bubble.

Ronald Zapantis – 1.3 million
Xavier Zuczkowski – 0

Player	Chips	Big Blinds
Tonny Krijn	1,690,000	141
Fabian Bartuschk	1,330,000	111
Marco Cipriani	1,274,000	106
Antonios Onoufriou	1,180,000	98
Damien Labaune	1,120,000	93
Salvatore Incardona	1,090,000	91
Mark Sanz Clausin	1,068,000	89
Ciro Perna	1,023,000	85
Aladin Mrkaljevic	1,022,000	85
Ronald Zapantis	996,000	83
Gianluca Pagliaro	995,000	83
Raijmond Slabbekoorn	987,000	82
Junyu Liu	945,000	79
Guillaume Bessolles	897,000	75
Georgios Zachmanidis	881,000	73
Marko Cosic	872,000	73
Allan Arjut	805,000	67
Kevin Quinlan	802,000	67
Dimitrios Panagopoulos	775,000	65

The following players hit the rail before the break. The action is only a dozen players away from the money when the action resumes with 171 players remaining and 159 players earning at least a min-cash of €1,110.

• Scott Wills
• Salvatore D’Alessandro
• Paul Tirnovean
• Angelo Patane
• Geir Sondeland
• Martin Sanden
• Domenic Gilbert
• Matteo Colantoni
• Shanmugasundaram Jeyamohan
• Fotios Ntamaris
• Massimo Scaletta
• Clint Jeffery
• Stig Horup
• Jonathan Butters
• Mehdi Rebai
• Mike Lange
• Mati Pirn
• Sergejs Korobovs
• Nicusur Matei
• Florian Ribouchon
• Vojin Ognjanovic
• Per Gaassand
• Alexander Sokolovsky

Players are about to go on a 60-minute dinner break. We will update some of the biggest stacks from around the room during the break along with the eliminations from the end of the blind level.

Meanwhile, this is the beautiful view from the rooftop balcony at Portomaso Casino.

• Kjell Hernstrom
• Kerrien Clement
• Tomasz Brzezinski
• Sorin Pruteanu
• Mitchell Hynam
• Henricus Bouwmans
• Rene Lumiste
• Angelo Monachino
• Vincent Keen
• Jascha Berger
• Kaspar Schmid
• Min Ho Cho
• Richard Koppel
• Andre Grohnert
• Boban Stevanovic
• Mathias Falandys
• Dimitrios Gkatzas

Level 17: 5,000/10,000 (10,000)
Entries: 199/1,444

Antonio Scala jammed from the small blind. Antonino Scaletta only had a few big blinds in his stack when he called from the big blind.

Antonino Scaletta: Q♠J♦
Antonio Scala: Q♥10♣

Scaletta was ahead and doubled his stack with his Superman chip protector to perhaps begin a Cinderella story after the 7♠A♣4♦J♣Q♣ ran out on the board.

Antonio Scala – 525,000
Antonino Scaletta – 100,000

Level 17: 5,000/10,000 (10,000)
Entries: 211/1,444

The following players hit the rail during the second half of Level 16. There will be one more level before the one-hour scheduled dinner break takes place.

• Fabrice Ferrari
• Adam Petrovic
• Gianpiero Barrile
• Ronnie Cohen
• Luka Bulatovic
• Marvin Dubau
• Ruedi Bernegger
• Jan Nagler
• Emil Langeland
• Anotny Wastaff
• Tim van Moar
• Peter de Bruin
• Giordano Contu
• Steven Sieling
• Hacine Chatteur
• Frank Robotka
• Robert Admas
• Giuseppe Partinico
• Giovanni Capitano
• Anthony Farthing
• Luigi D’Alterio
• Sabatino Chiappetta
• Gianmarco Di Tota
• Karl Linder

Level 16: 4,000/8,000 (8,000)
Entries: 213/1,444

Leon Gerada three-bet jammed a short stack of around 10 big blinds and was called by Boban Stevanovic who opened from middle position.

Leon Gerada: A♥8♦
Boban Stevanovic: A♣2♣

Gerada improved to a full house on the Q♥8♦8♣Q♠2♦ runout to gain some breathing room near the end of Level 16.

Leon Gerada – 190,000
Boban Stevanovic – 70,000

Level 16: 4,000/8,000 (8,000)
Entries: 219/1,444

Allan Arjut was updating us on a big hand earlier when he eliminated Sascha Manns where he flopped a set with fours, Manns turned a straight with ten-seven suited, and Manns was on the rail after Arjut further improved to a full house. There was a bit more to the hand with other players initially involved but at the same time, there was a big pot brewing between Mark Attard and Junyu Liu.

Attard check-called a bet of 140,000 by Liu into a pot of around 250,000 with the 8♠2♦2♠6♥ on the board after the turn before checking again after trips hit the board with the 2♥ landing on the river.

Liu jammed for more than 500,000. Attard tanked for several moments before he let go of the hand. The table broke immediately after the hand, so Attard will need to attempt to get some chips back from a different player.

Junyu Liu – 1,000,000
Allan Arjut – 650,000
Mark Attard – 600,000