Timex
On a flop, McDonald and Perez check. The turn is , McDonald bets 70k and Perez calls. The river is , McDonald bets 140k into a 252k pot and Diego calls. Michael "Timex" McDonald shows for top two pair and wins the 530k pot, climbing back to 714k. Perez falls back to 641k.
Andreas Gülünay
Andreas Gülünay calls a pre-flop raise from Michael McDonald and the flop comes ; both players check. The turn is , McDonald checks again, Gülünay bets out and gets a call. The river comes , McDonald checks, Gülünay goes all-in and McDonald eventually folds, falling back to 466k. Gülünay comes back and is now at 709k.
Andreas Gülünay bets 120k into a flop, Torsten Haase goes all in and Gülünay eventually folds. Gülünay is now down to 408k and Haase increases his stack to 1,008,000.
Two and a half hours into the final day, there are six players remaining in the PokerStars EPT German Open. Torsten Haase is in the lead for the first time after winning a couple of pots without showdowns. These are the seatings and chip counts at the end of level 22:
1: Mike McDonald 528,000
2: Diego Perez 851,000
4: Johannes Strassmann 825,000
6: Andreas Gülünay 643,000
7: Torsten Haase 863,000
8. Claudio Rinaldi 383,000
Andreas Gülünay limps from the small blind, Haase checks his option and Andreas bets out on a flop. Haase tries to find some kind of weakness in Gülünay, but he eventually folds as Gülünay looks strong.
Torsten Haase
Andreas Gülünay raised pre-flop, Torsten Haase re-raised and Gülünay called. The flop came , Torsten went all in and Andreas folded. Torsten won the pot and continues to increase his stack.
In the next hand Torsten again raised to 42k, Michael McDonald re-raised to 128k, Haase went all in and wins another pot as Timex folded.
Perez raised to 40k pre-flop from the cut-off, Johannes Strassmann re-raised from the button to 130k, and Perez moved all in. Strassmann said, "This time I can't call you, but the next time I will very, very probably call you," as he mucked his hand. Perez showed an ace and raked the pot.