Ketul Nathwani and Paul Thomas Otto got involved in a big hand heads up when Nathwani raised from the cutoff and Otto called on the button.
Flop: - Nathwani checked, and Otto checked behind.
Turn: - Nathwani bet out 155,000, and Otto called.
River: - Nathwani bet again, this time 375,000. Rather than counting out the calling chips, Otto hoped it'd be unnecessary and just announced a call. Nathwani rolled over for the rivered flush and took down the sizable pot.
Iikka Tahkokallio opened to 54,000, and Lennart Holz moved all in from the button. Marc Inizan announced a call. It wasn't until it reached Marko Neumann in the big blind that anyone bothered to count Holz' stack. He had 665,000, which was enough to make Neumann fold. Tahkokallio folded as well, and it was time to turn 'em up. Holz had Inizan out-pipped with to the big stack's . The board came out , and Holz doubled up. Inizan fell to 1.51 million.
Evgeniy Zaytsev raised preflop from middle position, and Marcel Koller defended his big blind. The flop came , and Koller bet out 68,000. Evgeniy Zaytsev raised to 155,000, and after a minute, Koller counted out a big bet. He started to slide the awkward stacks forward and then thought better of it. "All in," he said with a Tiffany Michelle-esqe wave at his stack, approximately 780,000. Zaytsev quickly folded.
Donnie Peters
Ainsworth doubles to 800k
Jude Ainsworth moved all in from the button and Stefan Huber called from the big blind. Ainsworth held the and Huber held the . There was a dead small blind in the hand.
The flop came down and Ainsworth stayed in the lead. The turn brought the and then the river was the to give AInsworth a full house. He was able to dodge elimination and not be the second of the Team PokerStars Pros to hit the rail.
Donnie Peters
Johannes Strassmann - 23rd Place
Carsten Joh raised to 50,000 and then Artur Wasek reraised all in for 1.431 million. from the button. Team PokerStars Pro Johannes Strassmann was in the big blind and went into the tank. He would have to commit all of his chips to make the call. He had a little over 500,000 chips. After a few minutes, he made the call and Joh folded.
Strassmann:
Wasek:
The flop came down and Strassmann missed on the first three cards. The turn card brought the and then the river was the , eliminating Strassmann from the tournament in 23rd place. Wasek moved to over two million.
Lennart Holz raised to 52,000 under the gun and The Duc Ngo finally pushed for 96,000 from the cutoff. Norman Kastner called in the big blind, and Holz called too.
The two players checked down the board and when they flipped the cards it became apparent how much trouble Ngo had been in from the start.
Holz:
Kastner:
Ngo:
Thus, after some brief handshaking, we lose Mr. Ngo in 24th place.
There is no room at all to move on the tournament floor so we can only really speculate as to what happened before showdown, but we arrived to see Theo Jorgensen winning an enormous pot from Ketul Nathwani with on an board. Nathwani mucked and dropped to 1.7 million; Jorgensen meanwhile moved on up to 2.7 million - tying for the chip lead with Kevin MacPhee.
Marc Inizan raised to 56,000 in the cutoff but Joao Barbosa made it 140,000 from the small blind. The Duc Ngo, woefully short in the big blind, thought about it for a while but eventually passed. Inizan folded too, and Barbosa took the pot.
The next hand Barbosa raised again, this time from the button. The unhappy Ngo folded again, but this time Iikka Tahkokallio called in the big blind.
They saw a flop and Tahkokallio bet out 59,000. Barbosa promptly made 180,000. Back to to Tahkokallio - and he made it 380,000 to go. Barbosa disappeared into the tank for a while, and when he came out again he folded.
Donnie Peters
Stefan Huber raised the button and Kevin MacPhee called from the small blind. The flop came down and both players checked. The turn brought the and MacPhee checked. Huber fired 24,000 and MacPhee called.
The river came the and MacPhee checked again to Huber.With the pot at 188,000, Huber fired 86,000. MacPhee checked his hole cards one last time before releasing into the muck and Huber scooped the pot. Huber's now over two million chips.
- Nathwani checked, and Otto checked behind.
- Nathwani bet out 155,000, and Otto called. 
- Nathwani bet again, this time 375,000. Rather than counting out the calling chips, Otto hoped it'd be unnecessary and just announced a call. Nathwani rolled over 
for the rivered flush and took down the sizable pot.
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