Mathias Kuerschner shoved for exactly 100,000 from the cutoff, and on the button Thorsten Schafer made the call. The blinds got out of their way, and they were on the backs.
Schafer:
Kuerschner: a somewhat desperate but still live
"Slowly please," Kuerschner told the dealer - although there was no need, as the TV crew spent a minute or two arranging themselves, and Kuerschner got to enjoy the 10 second pause between flop, turn and river that the cameras require.
Board:
Kuerschner duly busted out, and Schafer is at 800,000.
Robert Schulz has been knocked out after he made his move with preflop and found Russian Ilya Gorodetskiy (who came 16th here last year) making the call with .
The board offered little in the way of support, coming .
Thorsten Schäfer, one of three chunky stacks on his table, has been involved in many a preflop scuffle (often with Kristijonas Andrulis, who looks like he's come out on the wrong side of a few of them). Markus Grewe, however, looks like he had his number a minute ago, when Schäfer predictably raised on the button, got three-bet and returned fire with an extra 84,000. Grewe sat still for a while before slowly pushing out yet another raise. Schäfer took one look at the big stack of blue 10k chips and threw his hand away.
"I've had that feeling so many times today," ruefully commented Andrulis.
Miltiadis Kyriakides has been knocked out after being all-in on a flop with . Joep van den Bijgaart pushed all-in behind him with and this was enough to force Luis Jaikel to fold face up.
The gave Kyriakides even more outs and the shipped the pot to Van den Bijgaart who now has 863,000.
You won't find him in this tournament any more - he's busto.
Saar Wilf opened for 25,000 and Nima Ahrary reraised an indeterminate amount - indeterminate because before we could count it, Wilf had reraised enough to cover Ahrary, who called all in.
Wilf:
Ahrary:
Board:
Ahrary is no more, and Wilf muttered something about it being the first time he'd won a race in forever. He's looking good for the novelty - he's at 850,000.
Alexander Smolin opened to 33,000 from the hijack, and to his immediate left Kent Lundmark shoved for just 83,000 in total. It folded back to Smolin who made the call, and they were on their backs.
Smolin:
Lundmark: dominating with
Board:
Lundmark was drawing dead by the turn, and the full house that Smolin made on the river was very pretty but basically irrelevant. Smolin is up to 700,000, Lundmark is gone, and Kevin Stani is now the only former EPT winner remaining in the field.
Kevin Stani, down to just 143,000, moved in on the button over a preflop raise (25,000) from Maximilian Heinzelmann. As soon as the number was said, Heinzelmann called and turned up . He was flipping - Stani held . The flop brought him confidence: , and although there was some hope for straight splits on the turn, the river put an end to Stani's Berlin adventure (giving him a prize of €15,000).
preflop and found Russian Ilya Gorodetskiy (who came 16th here last year) making the call with 
.
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flop with 
. Joep van den Bijgaart pushed all-in behind him with 
and this was enough to force Luis Jaikel to fold 
face up.
gave Kyriakides even more outs and the 
. The flop brought him confidence: 
river put an end to Stani's Berlin adventure (giving him a prize of €15,000).
