Dominik Paus was down to 39,000 chips when everyone went on dinner break, now he is up to 380,000 after taking all the chips from Oliver Heidel. He first doubled with versus the of the fellow German on a board of , then with tens versus ace-king.
Last but not least, Heidel shoved the river for 130,000 into a pot of 70,000. Paus called with for the straight and Heidel's were worthless.
Domenico Gala busted two players including Julien Arethuse and among the other seat open was also Jean-Marc Jelk. Peter Siemund has an identical big stack.
Aleksei Smirnov doubled up for 60,000 with versus on a board of .
Frederic Schwarzer lost a flip for 62,000 with against the of Apostolos Chatzopoulos on a board of , the remaining chips then vanished shortly after.
Sergey Topchiy clashed with Arturs Scerbaks and lost most of his chips with versus . Scerbaks had flopped the straight on a board of and left Topchiy very short, it was all over a couple of minutes later.
"Sorry man, but you saved me. If you fold, I call," Dragoslav Timarac said to Adam Jaguscik as the latter had just been eliminated by Daniel Rose. The latter had defended in the blinds, as did Jaguscik and the action then went nuts on the flop . Timarac managed to fold aces whereas Rose went into the showdown with .
Jaguscik held the and the board completed with the turn and river.
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Andres Viola scored a big double up against Roland Gerga, before the flop and on the flop chips went in before Viola then shoved the turn for 60,000. Gerga eventually called with and Viola flipped over , the river blanked.
Shortly after, Gerga also lost another 60,000 when running into the pocket aces of a short stack.
A few minutes prior to it, Fernando Dos Santos Ferreira had survived an all in for 49,000 with against the of Ivan Luca in the small blind. The board came .
Jose Rouco Rodriguez four-bet jammed for what looked like 130,000 and Jonas Lauck, who had three-bet to 35,000 from two seats over, snap-called with pocket nines. Rodriguez only had pocket eights and found no help on a queen-high board.
Joining the action on the turn, Mahmut Yildirim bet 22,000 from the small blind and Andriy Palyuga moved all in with the superior stack. Yildirim almost folded but then called for his tournament life and 92,000 chips with the .
Palyuga only had and the river blanked. "Woah, I almost folded," Yildirim added.
From early position, Martin Kabrhel was spotted all in for 77,000 with the and Petr Machacek looked him up from one seat over with the superior stack and the . The board ran out and Kabrhel doubled.
versus the 
of the fellow German on a board of 
, then with tens versus ace-king.
river for 130,000 into a pot of 70,000. Paus called with 
for the straight and Heidel's 
were worthless.
on a board of 
.
of Apostolos Chatzopoulos on a board of 
, the remaining chips then vanished shortly after.
versus 
and left Topchiy very short, it was all over a couple of minutes later.
turn and 
river.
turn for 60,000. Gerga eventually called with 
, the river 
.
