21st place belongs to Jan Veit, who lost a coin-flip holding A-10 offsuit against Michiel Brummelhuis' pocket sevens.
The flop brought three hearts and Brummelhuis held the , meaning Veit would need to catch a non-heart ace or ten on the turn or river to stay alive. The turn and river blanked out and Veit was eliminated from the field.
Spaniard Simon Munoz raised to 13,000 from the button. Annette Obrestad re-raised to 37,000 which was called by Munoz.
The flop was .
Annette carefully counted out 45,000 and almost before she had finished saying raise, Simon announce all in. Annette made a reasonably quick call and the cards were on their backs:
Annette
Simon
The turn was the which removed some of Simon's outs and the river was the to ship a 400,000 chip pot to Annette.
"Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday," sang Andy Black to the tune of the Claire Grogan song.
Facing an 11,500 pre-flop raise from a player under the gun, Csaba Malnai moved all in for his last 15,100. When the action got around to Ludovic Lacay, he decided to isolate himself and the all in by repopping it to 50,000. The UTG player folded, leaving Malnai and Lacay heads-up to the flop.
At the showdown, Malnai showed A-Q and Lacay produced pocket tens. The board blanked out for Malnai, who was eliminated from the tournament in 20th place.
Just before the first break of the day, Simon Munoz was able to double back through Annette Obrestad, outdrawing Annette's A-Q with his own A-9 in a pre-flop all in confrontation..
The board filled out A-10-J-7-8, giving Munoz a nine-high straight and some room to breathe.
Minutes after the break, we lost our 19th-place finisher, Simon Munoz, who was eliminated by Andy Black.
Black had made it 14,000 to go from the cutoff, and the action folded around to Munoz in the big blind, who reraised all in for approximately 90,000; Black insta-called.
Black:
Munoz:
The flop left Munoz drawing slim, with better hopes for a tie than a win, as it gave Andy a pair of tens. The fell on the turn, giving Munoz even more chances for a chop pot. The was the last card off the deck and Black's tens were good enough to take down the pot.
Andy climbed back over the half million mark in chips with the hand.
A frenetic segment of action just took place with an all-in and call on each of the three tables. Luckily for us they had to wait as tournament director Thomas Kremser called the action on the microphone for each hand in turn.
They were as follows:
Noah Boaken doubling up Daan Ruiter in a 140,000-chip pot, sevens losing to nines.
Anders Pettersson doubled up when his pocket tens holding up against the suited K-Q of Ziad Khady despite the flop giving Ziad two overcards and a flush draw making him a temporary favourite. This was a 100,000-chip pot.
Lastly, Reuben Peters got a gift from Johhny Lodden, 120K pot again all in pre-flop. Johnny Lodden's J2 suited no good against the pocket sixes of Reuben.
Ludovic Lacay just added 175,000 chips to his stack after eliminating Michiel Brummelhuis from the tournament. Brummelhuis opened the pot for 16,000 and when the action got around to Lacay, he opted to reraise, making it 55,000 total.
Brummelhuis then moved all in for approximately 175,000 and Lacay made the call, tabling pocket queens. "That's a nice hand," Brummelhuis said, as he turned over pocket nines.
"Come on, one time," he said aloud, as the dealer spread the community cards: . Lacay's queens held and the win moved him closer to the top of the leaderboard.