On the feature table we just caught the end of Patrik Antonius' elimination. Antonius was all in for just 26,000 chips against Team PokerStars Pro Matthias De Meulder and the showdown went as following.
Antonius:
De Meulder:
The board ran out and Antonius hit the rail. After this hand De Meulder lost some chips and he's currently sitting on around 455,000.
"Good game guys" Nick Petrangelo said as he got up from the table to go to the pay out desk. He had just lost his last chips with to preflop all in. The board was and the one time chip leader made his exit.
Joep van den Bijgaart opened for 36,000 from the hijack and Shyam Srinivasan called from the button. Heinz Traut in the small blind called as well and Aleksei Ponomarev in the big blind squeezed all in for 385,000. Van den Bijgaart and Srinivasan folded, Traut made the call.
Aleksei Ponomarev:
Heinz Traut:
The board ran out and Ponomarev more than doubled.
Peter Eichhardt opened to 41,000 from the hijack and Rodney Ramalho in the cutoff three bet to 96,000. Mateusz Zbikowski in the big blind tanked for a long time and finally had the clock called on him. With 72 players left at the time, Zbikowski was waiting for someone to bust so he would take the higher pay out (72 paid €15,600, number 71 would receive €18,320).
With 10 seconds left he four bet to 216,000, with just about 50,000 behind. Eichhardt folded instantly, Ramalho moved in instantly.
Zbikowski again tanked for a couple of minutes, and again the clock was called. He eventually called all in and soon got the bad news.
Rodney Ramalho:
Mateusz Zbikowski:
The board came and Zbikowski made his exit in 72nd place, netting him €15,600.
Goran Mandic got his chips in on with the . Jonathan Abdellatif had . The on the turn gave Mandic a straight and Abdellatif a useless pair. The river was a blank and Mandic doubled.
Heinz Traut was chip leader not too long ago, but right now he's fallen back to earth after losing a few pots in a row. In the most recent hand we saw, Rainer Kempe shoved over a raise from Traut, and the German pro opted to make the call for 278,000 total.
Kempe:
Traut:
The board ran out and Kempe hit a flush to double up on the river.
A player raised to 41,000 under the gun and after a caller, Jasper Wetemans three-bet to 136,000 from the button. Alexey Bilyuchenko moved all in from the small blind for 152,000 and the action folded to Wetemans, who made the call for just a few thousand extra chips.
Former EPT Vienna winner and start-of-the-day chip leader Oleksii Khoroshenin just raised from the hijack after which Diego Casco Del Riego three-bet from his left to 84,000. Roman Korenev four-bet to 172,000 from the button and Khoroshenin responded to that by five-betting to 325,000.
Del Riego went into the tank for a very long time before folding, and Korenev immediately let go of his hand as well.