We Have a Showdown!

After roughly a dozen hands, the players saw their first flop. Action folded around to Sebastian Ruthenberg in the small blind and he completed. Martin Nielsen checked his big blind option and the flop came {A-Clubs}

. Both players checked and the {4-Clubs}

hit the turn. Ruthenberg check-called a bet of 45,000 from Nielsen and to the river they went.

When the {9-Clubs}

came off on fifth street, Ruthenberg tapped the felt yet again. Nielsen confidently bet 75,000 and Ruthenberg made a routine call. The players showed:

Nielsen: {K-?}

Ruthenberg: {K-?}

Both had kings up, but the German had the winner. Ruthenberg took over the chip lead on the hand and climbed to just shy of 1,280,000 chips. Nielsen sits in second place in the chip counts, still with over one million.