Fabien Motte went for a four-bet shove for what appeared to be 500,000 and was immediately called by Zorlu Er in the small blind.
Fabien Motte: 
Zorlu Er: 
The 
board brought no help to Motte and he was sent to the rail, while Er joined the biggest stacks in the room.
A shorter stack jammed the button with the 
and Dmitry Gromov got his chips in from one seat over with the 
.
The 
board kept the superior hand in the lead and the field dropped to 115 contenders. There was another seat open at almost the same time when Semen Kravets eliminated Elias Gutierrez in a bigger pot, as he finished the job he started only a few minutes ago.
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Artur Martirosian and Abdelhakim Zoufri tangled in a preflop contest with the former three-betting the button and the latter cold four-bet jamming. Zoufri was covered by quite a margin and at risk of elimination in a larger pot.
Abdelhakim Zoufri: 
Artur Martirosian: 
The 
board delivered no help to Zoufri and Martirosian leaped into a big stack once more.
Semen Kravets ended up all in and at risk for 493,000 before the flop and Elias Gutierrez needed a lot of help to avoid a major setback.
Semen Kravets: 
Elias Gutierrez:
The 
board changed nothing whatsoever and Gutierrez had to forfeit half a million in chips.
Jeff Gross walked out of the tournament area and confirmed that he had been eliminated. According to the partypoker streamer, he got it in with a flip with a small pocket pair only to see an opponent make the call with ace-eight. The eight appeared right away and that spelled the end for the American.
Only around 120 players remain in contention as some former big stacks have recently been eliminated. The final level of the night has started and whether or not the money bubble bursts today remains to be seen.
Level: 18
Blinds: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 16,000
On the rail end of a battle between Maksym Skripkin and Charalambos Charalambous, the board showed 
. Skripkin bet 250,000 and was called instantly to turn over 
for a set. Charalambous mucked his cards in disgust and dropped to a short stack.
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