Konstantin Puchkov's recovery continued as he checked a flop from the small blind. Big blind Martin Jacobson checked as well and the action moved on to Vadzim Kursevich who bet 55,000. Puchkov now shoved, prompting a swift fold from Jacobson and a slower one from Kursevich. Puchkov asked them if he wanted to see his cards. Neither looked particularly bothered, but he showed them anyway - for top set, and he's at 480,000.
A short-stacked Konstantin Puchkov just outdrew his way back into the competition as he raised all but his card protecting 1k chip preflop under the gun. Martin Jacobson called right after him. The rest of the table quickly threw their hands in and they saw a flop, with the pot standing at 150000 times Puchkov's remaining stack. They joke-checked a flop but the extra thousand did get in.
Puchkov:
Jacobson:
Turn: for a gutshot straight
River:
Puchkov doubles to 300,000 and tries to take Jacobson's ante for the next hand in with his mini chip lake. "Nice try," commented Wilinofsky.
While Saar Wilf was busy busting out on the next table, a blind-on-blind raising war between Kristijonas Andrulis and Ilya Gorodetskiy culminated in the latter all in and dominated.
Gorodetskiy:
Andrulis:
No tens were forthcoming and Gorodetskiy duly busted out. Gorodetskiy finished in 16th place here last year, and now picks up his second consecutive EPT Berlin cash. We suggested to him afterwards that next year he might win it. "Yes, probably," reflected the ever-sanguine Russian, "Although the trend is wrong."
Bolivar Palacios check-called a bet of 78,000 on the turn of a board against Maximilian Heinzelmann to see a river.
Palacios now checked again and Heinzelmann now moved all-in. Palacios exhaled deeply and thought for a minute before announcing "Call."
With a wry smile, Heinzelmann turned over for the backdoored nut straight and Palacios was forced to to show for second pair. (All-in showdowns must have all cards revealed).
We're breaking to four tables now and Heinzelmann is the chip leader with 1.9 million.
Saar Wilf has become our latest casualty, his in the hijack no good against small blind Cuello Jorge Mariano's pocket . The board was not enough to save him, and Wilf was gone.
Thomas Traboulsi has just doubled through Ilya Gorodetskiy - twice.
First he pushed all-in for about 65,000 against the Russian and won with against to double up to about 150,000 when the board came .
A couple of hands later and Gorodetskiy moved all-in for 250,000 and Traboulsi called all-in again with this time against the Russian's . This time the board came .
Traboulsi now up to 320,000 and Gorodetskiy dropped to 110,000.
Ilya Gorodetskiy made the opening raise and Markus Grewe called in the small blind before Jens Weigel shoved from the big blind. Gorodetskiy folded, and although there was a tantalisingly long dwell from Grewe, eventually he folded too. Weigel is now at 320,000.
David Stogel has been eliminated by a rapidly chipping-up George Danzer. Helped by a ton of huge hands this level, Danzer is up to 530,000 - his latest c.100k addition coming from Stogel's button shove with . Danzer only had and promptly busted him.
Not all of Danzer's hands have held, though - he kept Bolivar Palacios in the tournament when he called his preflop shove with pocket queens. Palacios had moved in with from the big blind and hit one pair on the flop and another on the river to give himself about 410,000.
Bolivar Palacios opened to 36,000 under the gun but soon regretted it as Max Heinzelmann made it 92,000 from the cutoff. He folded, and is on 450,000. Heinzelmann still looks to be tying with Ben Wilinofsky for the lead.
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flop from the small blind. Big blind Martin Jacobson checked as well and the action moved on to Vadzim Kursevich who bet 55,000. Puchkov now shoved, prompting a swift fold from Jacobson and a slower one from Kursevich. Puchkov asked them if he wanted to see his cards. Neither looked particularly bothered, but he showed them anyway - 
for top set, and he's at 480,000.
against Robin Ylitalo's 
everything seemed to be looking good but the board came 
.
for a gutshot straight
board against Maximilian Heinzelmann to see a 
river.
for the backdoored nut straight and Palacios was forced to to show 
board was not enough to save him, and Wilf was gone.
from the big blind and hit one pair on the flop and another on the river to give himself about 410,000.