Back to the felt...
Level: 13
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 200

, trailing de Meulder's 
. The board ran out 



and when the river ace hit, de Meulder left the table angrily and mumbled something in Dutch. The rest of the table called him back to inform him he won, and needless to say he was quite happy.
, the board reading
by the end.
.
that paired the board on fourth street, and the
filled out the board. Collopy asked the dealer to spread the pot before stacking out a bet of 21,800. That represented a significant chunk of Becker's stack, and she elected to surrender and save her 48,000-chip remainder for a better spot.
board, Nicolo Calia moved in for a similar sum. He looked your blogger directly in the eye - in our experience, a sort of blogger's tell that a player has a monster - and duly, once Pieter De Vries had called, Calia flipped
for a full house, De Vries mucked and Calia sighed with relief as he doubled to around 75,000.
; the king spiked on the river.
, and the blinds checked to the raiser. Langmann had just about 20,000 chips left, and he went ahead and stuck them all in there. Chip leader Strassmann instantly announced an all-in check-raise, enough to quickly fold Kastle and put the Langmann heads up with his fellow German Team PokerStars Pro for double or nothing. Cards up, herren:


was safe and clean, and the
that filled out the board missed Langmann as well. He's been eliminated, and Strassmann moves up dangerously close to the half-million chip mark.