Defending champion Ruben Visser had lost with kings to aces and then recovered the losses to get back to his previous stack. "Just make it 25,500," the Dutchman joked.
Piet Bakker is doing much better on the previous table of Dominic van Embden, currently leading the field with almost three times the starting stack.
The remaining High Rollers are now on their dinner break and the Main Event will be soon as well. Thomas Muehloecker however opted to join the field with less than 15 minutes on the clock.
Przemyslaw Piotrowski was the initial raiser and picked up one customer in Surinder Sunar from two seats over. A continuation bet of the Pole on the flop flop was called before Sunar then jammed the turn to a second barrel of Piotrowski. The Pole snap-called with for a turned set of tens and Sunar was drawing dead with the , making the river a formality.
On the three-way flop of , Clyde Tjauw Foe bet 1,175 and Hossein Ensan squeezed to 6,000 from the button, ensuring the fold of the other player in the hand. Tjauw Foe however called and then check-called the turn for 2,900. Both players checked the on the river and Tjauw Foe was first to show after the button to reveal as winning hand.
Matthias de Meulder had made a bad experience with a flush not long ago and Surinder Sunar just did the same. The 1993 Master Classics champion check-called two streets before checking again the river against Joep van den Bijgaart. The latter then bet 7,800 into a pot of 12,600 and Sunar eventually called.
Van den Bijgaart flipped over his and Sunar mucked the inferior .
Dennis Smith had defended his big blind against a raise and a call by Louis Salter to see a flop of . The initial raiser looked up the Dutchman after the turn with only to see Smit return the for the better flush, giving the Dutchman an urgently needed double up.
On the river of a board, Georgios Zisimopoulos' bet of 1,000 was called by an opponent and the Greek showed for two pair. That was good enough to scoop the pot, though the Greek fell down to just under two times the starting stack recently and recovered some of the previous losses.
On the heads-up flop of , Morten Mortensen made a bet of what looked like 600 chips and was called by Pascal Hartmann in the cutoff seat. The on the turn was checked through and Mortensen then bet the river for 1,050 to receive a call by his opponent. The Dane flipped over and Hartmann tapped the table.
Jason Wheeler, who considers Amsterdam as his new home away from home, was eliminated in the High Roller Event and jumped straight into the action of the Main Event. The American expat has had excellent live results as of lately and it would be no surprise to see another deep run here.