Over on the feature table, Scott Hanna opened the action to 700 under the gun. Newey callled from the hijack, Tomovic called behind from the button, with the blinds folding.
Hanna:
Newey:
Tomovic:
Hanna lead out with a small continuation-bet of 1,200 chips after missing the flop of . Newey called with top pair, while Tomovic threw his hand into the muck. The on the turn was of no help to Hanna who folded after checking the action to Dewey who attempted to extract value with his bet of 2,300.
Elliot Smith raised to 700 and Stipo Vladic three-bet to 2,000 from the button, which Renato Nowak called in the small blind. Smith also called and the trio checked down the flop and the on the turn. Nowak then bet the river for 5,000 and Smith folded, Vladic called and then mucked once Nowak had flipped over for a flush.
Patrik Antonius had bled some chips at the feature table. Following the early exit of Jans-Peter Jachtmann, he was moved to the secondary table to balance the action.
Shortly afterwards, Germany's "Hans Olymp" joined the feature table over in seat 8 to bring the total player pool to 13 players.
Franco Cantarella was trying to represent a flush on a board with four clubs and fired the river for 6,500 with the after missing all his draws. Evangelos Vrakas called with the only and took down the pot.
Cantarella also lost another decently sized pot with against the pocket aces of Patrik Antonius after calling down all three streets of a queen-high board.
On the four-way flop of , Renato Nowak in the small blind and Stipo Vladic on the button invested 3,000 chips each while the other two players folded. The fell on the turn and Nowak led for 5,000. Vladic now raised to 11,500 and Nowak grinned, mucked the and then said "your ace is good."
At about the same time, Quirin Zech arrived at the same table in the one seat.
Evangelos Vrakas raised and then called the three-bet of Patrik Antonius one seat over on the button. Vrakas check-called a bet on the flop and the appeared on the turn. Vrakas bet 10,000 into a pot of 13,500 and Antonius raised to 25,000, triggering a quick all in by Vrakas and an equally quick call by Antonius.
Vrakas:
Antonius:
The on the river changed nothing whatsoever and Antonius doubled up for 75,800, leaving Vrakas behind with only 600 chips. The Greek / German had already stormed away though.
Besim Hot has been living up to his name on the feature table, once again winning a hand. Pierre Mothes opened the action for 800 chips with . Scott Hanna called from the button with before Hot three-bet to 4,000 chips with .
The seemed to scare neither player despite the board displaying at least two over-cards to their pairs. Hot lead the action for 4,600 chips which Hanna quickly called. Hot slowed down a bit when the appeared on the turn checking the action to Hanna who stabbed at the pot with a bet of 7,000. Hot called and both players checked after the appeared on the river.
Elliot Smith recovered some chips to get back to starting stack and then got involved in a four-way flop of . Everyone checked and Renato Nowak then bet the turn for 2,000 from the small blind. Patrik Antonius folded from the big blind and Smith then squeezed to 7,000. Stipo Vladic called on the button before Nowak reraised to 17,000.
Smith quickly gave up his cards, but Vladic moved all in to trigger a loud laugh from Nowak. The latter eventually folded the and Vladic grinned over, showing the .
The secondary table surely provides a lot of fireworks and a massive pot had built until the river of a board. Renato Nowak had defended his big blind to the under-the-gun opposition of Patrik Antonius and then fired the river for 20,000. Antonius called and was greeted by the of Nowak, mucking the .
All other players on the table either grinned or shook their heads.