Max Heinzelmann raised to 81,000 in the cutoff and Fabrice Soulier shoved from the small blind. Heinzelmann snap-folded, and Soulier took the pot.
Heinzelmann got some chips back next hand though, raising to 82,000 in the hijack and picking up the blinds and antes. He's at 2.25 million.
Cuello Jorge Mariano opened to 80,000 on the button and then snap-called the shove for around 350,000 from Thomas Traboulsi in the big blind.
Mariano: 
Traboulsi: 
Board: an extremely decisive 
Traboulsi told everybody at both tables goodbye, and he was gone. We are down to 13 now - who is going to be the next unlucky casualty?
The dealer has just shepherded more chips to across to Max Heinzelmann after the only pot of any notice in the last fifteen minutes.
Heizelmann had opened to 82,000 and Martin Jacobson flat-called from the big blind to see a wet-looking flop of 
. Jacobson check-called a bet of 76,000 before both checked the 
turn.
The river was the 
and Jacobson check-called a bet again, this time to the tune of 145,000 but he mucked when Heinzelmann turned over 
.
Vadzim Kursevich and Max Heinzelmann both have comfortable stacks and as neighbours are going to find themselve in blind-on-blind situations like this one for a while. It folded to Hinzelmann in the small blind who raised to 102,000 which was called by big blind Kursevich.
Both players checked the 
flop, but Heinzelmann led for 66,000 on the 
turn. After a bit of a think, Kursevich called. The river was the 
and Heinzelmann bet out 116,000. This too got a call but Kursevich mucked when Heinzelmann revealed his 
which had improved with the second queen on the river.
Vadzim Kursevich raised to 85,000, and Robin Ylitalo shoved for around 1.1 million. Call.
This was a very big pot.
Kursevich: 
Ylitalo: 
Board: 
Kursevich had 1.4 million at the start of the hand, meaning that Ylitalo is out in unlucky 13th place, and Kursevich is at a little over 2.5 million. Kristijonas Andrulis was moved over to the non-feature table to balance it out to six players per table, and we play on.
Max Heinzelmann is acting like the Reaper towards his table, he's raising more pots than anyone else and was just paid off by Cuello Jorge Mariano after the German bet 86,000 on the turn of a 
board and then another 151,000 on the river.
Mariano called both these bets but then mucked when Heinzelmann turned over 
for top pair.
Another level down, another 15 minutes in the hallway.
Back soon.
Level: 26
Blinds: 25,000/50,000
Ante: 5,000
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
6,400,000
119,000
|
119,000 |
|
||
|
3,560,000
1,010,000
|
1,010,000 |
|
2,630,000
130,000
|
130,000 |
|
|
2,550,000 | |
|
1,730,000
573,000
|
573,000 |
|
1,345,000
16,000
|
16,000 |
|
1,080,000
170,000
|
170,000 |
|
860,000
60,000
|
60,000 |
|
|
||
|
845,000
97,000
|
97,000 |
|
830,000
300,000
|
300,000 |
|
750,000
204,000
|
204,000 |
|
560,000
351,000
|
351,000 |
|
|
||
Now playing both the €10k side event (in the breaks) and the last two tables of the Main Event, young Mr. Andrulis (used to High Roller-type victories) had a lot on his plate. He doesn't have to worry about reaching the EPT final now, however, as he's out of that one.
He simply moved all-in in mid-position for his whole ~800,000 stack. Martin Jacobson re-raised all in and the blinds folded.
| Andrulis |  |
| Jacobson |  |
This race went right to the finish line:
......
I'm almost positive this giant race brought forth the query, "What are you doing in your head?" from Jacobson. Andrulis replied, "That's my thing." And calmly walked away.
