Benjamin Pollak has had to let a number of hands go during this level, but he is still armed with over 200,000 chips.
Pollak opened to 6,000 from middle position and the action passed around to Artem Metalidi in the small blind. Metalidi three-bet to 13,600 prompting Pollak to ask how many chips Metaldi had behind. Realizing Metalidi was essentially committed to calling any further raises, Pollak folded.
Poker can be a cruel game at times, as Vojtech Ruzicka no doubt knows. Ruzicka has just made a great call in a hand involving Andras Nemeth that went unrewarded and resulted in him losing a large percentage of his stack.
The action passed around to Roman Korenev on the button and the Russian raised to 8,000. Ruzicka was in the small blind and he three-bet to 21,500 only to see Nemeth, in the big blind, four-bet all-in for what turned out to be 106,500. Korenev got out of the way but Ruzicka exhaled loudly and studied his now sole opponent. After 45 seconds, Ruzicka called.
Ruzicka:
Nemeth:
Ruzicka thought he was ahead and he was right, but how that would change. The flop gave Nemeth an open-ended straight draw and although the was no help to him, the completed Nemeth's straight and Ruzicka handed over half of his stack.
Paul Berende and Adrian Mateos have been involved in back-to-back hands with each other and it is the former who emerged on top on both occasions.
The first hand saw Mateos open to 9,000, Berende move all-in next to act and Mateos fold what looked like . Berende showed the .
The following hand, Mateos opened to 9,000 again and Berende put up some resistance. Berende opted to three-bet to 22,000 and Mateos got out of the way and folded.
Artem Metalidi has been eliminated from the High Roller, his tournament coming to an end after a clash with Philippe Ktorza.
Metalidi got his chips in from the button holding and Ktorza called with . Neither player improved on the board, Ktorza's queen-high enough to bust out Metaldi.
to make the Canadian a set.
flop gave Nemeth an open-ended straight draw and although the 
was no help to him, the 
completed Nemeth's straight and Ruzicka handed over half of his stack.
. Berende showed the 
and Ktorza called with 
. Neither player improved on the 
board, Ktorza's queen-high enough to bust out Metaldi.