Mario Puccini raised from early-middle position to 900 and Olaf Kadler moved all in for 7,700 from a later position. In the hijack seat, Mike "Timex" McDonald reraised all in for around 30,000. Everyone folded and it was Kadler versus McDonald for this pot.
McDonald held the dominating position with the to Kadler's . The flop, turn and river ran out and McDonald won the pot.
Faraz Jaka likes to play a high variance, high reward brand of poker. This causes his stack to fluctuate accordingly. He was dizzy with 67,000 not so long ago but the bad side of variance has kicked his stack down to 16,500.
We saw him shove on Felix Schulze earlier, and muck when the German called all in with ace-high. The two have tangled again in a spot where Jaka joked it was, "Standard".
We're not sure how the betting went but there were a multi-raises before the cards were on their backs.
Mickey Petersen has just doubled again and is now up to 21400 chips. He got his stack in with against the of Robert Rohr and when the board ran out the EPT Copenhagen champion scooped the pot.
Pius Heinz may be the current World Series of Poker Main Event champion but he has been given little credit from Sascha Brombacher who just bluffed him off a hand.
Heinz opened with a raise to 800 from middle position and the player to his immediate left, Khalil Youssafi, made the call. Two players folded and Brombacher squeezed to 2,100. With the action back on Heinz he clicked it back and made it 3,825 putting the attention on Youssafi. He placed his "West Coast Choppers" cap back on, re-checked his cards before giving them back to the dealer.
Brombacher then moved all in for an additional 16,000 and Heinz insta-folded. As he did he was proudly shown the . Nice hand sir.
Ivan Todorovic raised to 1,000 from under the gun and Team PokerStars Pro Victor Ramdin called from the cutoff seat. The big blind also came along, to make for three-handed action to the flop.
The rolled out and action checked over to Ramdin. He bet 2,000 and only the big blind called.
The was added on the turn and the big blind checked. Ramdin fired 4,000 and his opponent check-raised to 9,400. Ramdin gave it up and dropped back to 108,000 in chips.