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Alexander Helbig just raised to 175,000 under the gun after which Julian Thomas moved all in. The short stack in the tournament had 1,425,000 chips left and did not get called. We're still nine-handed!
Pascal Vos was on the losing end of some pots for a while but he just managed to take another one down. Roman Herold raised under the gun to 170,000 and Pascal Vos three-bet to 370,000 from the small blind. Herold made the call.
On the flop appeared and Vos picked up the pot with a 255,000-chip bet.
Robert Haigh raised to 160,000 under the gun plus one and Dashgyn Aliev, who was seated to his immediate left, three-bet to 310,000. The action was folded back to Haigh who made the call.
The flop brought and Haigh checked to Aliev who bet 340,000. Haigh went into the tank for a bit before moving all in. Aliev had 1,250,000 chips left if he would fold and he decided to do so after tanking for about three minutes.
Lasse Frost has re-taken the chip lead after he battled with another big stack, Roman Herold.
Frost opened to 160,000 from mid post and then four-bet to 535,000 after Herold three-bet to 325,000 from the button. Herold elected to call to see a flop where he folded to a relatively small 360,000 bet from Frost.
Pascal Vos raised to 160,000 from middle position and Daniel-Gai Pidun made the call. Roman Korenev decided to move all in for 1,890,000 and Vos went into the tank. After about two minutes he folded and Pidun followed suit.