Stefan Schillhabel busted Pavel Binar when he got his all in against Binar's .
Meanwhile, Chris Ferguson shoved on Sam Grafton on the turn with the board reading . Grafton had opened the cutoff preflop to 75,000 and Ferguson called from the small blind. Both players checked the flop and Ferguson shoved the turn for 215,000.
Grafton folded and on the next hand, Ferguson shoved the button with John Racener and Phil Hellmuth in the blinds. They both folded.
Claas Segebrecht raised to 70,000 from the button. Dietrich Fast was in the big blind and three-bet to 265,000. With the action back on Segebrecht he four-bet to 620,000. Fast moved all in and Segebrecht called.
Dietrich Fast:
Claas Segebrecht:
The flop came . The came on the turn as Fast got to his feet, and the river was the and Fast was eliminated.
We didn't see the exact details but Sylvain Loosli just doubled through Philipp Gruissem. It was blind-versus-blind and it looked like Gruissem shipped it with and Loosli called with , winning with a pair of threes when Gruissem did not improve.
Ognjen Sekularac is over 3,000,000 in his effort to make his second final table of this WSOP Europe. He just eliminated Max Altergott when Altergott went all in with and Sekularac called with .
Neither player connected with the board and Sekularac won the hand. He opened the next hand to 100,000 and Dennis Yu defended from the big blind, but check-folded to a c-bet from Sekularac on the flop.
Jean-Noel Thorel and Dan Shak, who was on the button, each put in about 350,000 preflop. Thorel checked the flop and Shak shoved for 355,000. Thorel called with for a gutter and had a bunch of outs against Shak's . The turn and river brought running to counterfeit Shak.
"If you got dealt pocket eights every hand, what would you do?" was the question posed by Martin Kabrhel, not usually one to shy away from such conversation points. "How would you play them?" he asked Sam Grafton.
"I dunno, probably just set mine every hand," replied Grafton.
"Limp every hand?" offered Bryn Kenney as a suggestion, "Catch some short stacks?"
"After a while, you might be able to put him on a hand!" said Sam Trickett.
In one hand Kabrhel limped in the small blind and Ole Schemion raised to 150,000 in the big blind. Kabrhel folded.
"I folded sevens; I know he has eights!" said Kabrhel.
Sylvain Loosli shoved all in from the small blind and Paul Newey called from the big. Loosli had against the of Newey.
The board ran out four spades and Newey doubled to 420,000 with a flush.
Claas Segebrecht raised to 85,000 from early position and Liv Boeree called in position. The flop came and Segebrecht bet 85,000. Boeree called.
The turn was the and Segebrecht bet 280,000. Boeree called. The river was the and Segebrecht bet again, this time making it 660,000. Boeree wasted no time and folded.
Loosli went all in for 295,000 and Phil Hellmuth called. Loosli had against the of Hellmuth from the big blind. Neither player improved and Loosli earned the double.
Newey then shoved all in and Segebrect asked for a count. Newey's shove was for 340,000 and Segebrecht decided to move along.
With registration closed at the start of the day, the tournament officials have announced the prizepool and payouts. The €25,000 High Roller got 113 entrants and a total of 17 will be paid.
A min-cash is worth €38,060 while first prize is €745,387 and a WSOP gold bracelet.
Manig Loeser defended his big blind from a 100,000 raise by Nick Petrangelo, who had the button. They both checked the flop, leading to a board of . Loeser bet about 80,000 and Petrangelo called. Loeser checked the river and Petrangelo put him all in for about 300,000. The German mucked in short order.