Andrea Dato limped for 6,000 from the cutoff and called the raise of Ruben Visser on the button for 16,000 to see the heads-up flop of . The Italian check-called 15,000 and repeated the same for 38,000 after the turn. The river completed the board and Dato checked, Visser bet 71,000.
The Italian gave it a lot of thought before check-raising all in for 260,000 and Visser snap-called, tabling for the nut flush. Dato was gutted as he held for the second nut flush and hit the rail in 27th place. "Brutal" was the only word he said before heading to the payout desk.
After a raise to 13,000, Richard Milne three-bet to 30,000 and Per Munksgaard moved all in for 100,000 out of the blinds. The original raiser folded but Milne snap-called with . "Come on," Munksgaard said before tabling the dominated . It wasn't meant to be as the board ran out and the Dane was eliminated in 27th place for €8,261.
On a flop, Ruben Visser check-called a 19,000 bet from Stuart Rutter before both checked the turn. On the river, Visser led out for 60,000 and Rutter tanked for about three minutes before eventually folding.
Niels van Alphen raised to 12,000 from the button and Nico Kuan three-bet to 25,000 out of the small blind with an effective stack of 155,000 chips. van Alphen called to see the flop of in the very last hand before the break on the feature table and Kuan continued for 35,000.
He was called by van Alphen to lead 70,000 on the turn with 50,000 behind and van Alphen moved all in with the superior stack and . Kuan called off with and the on the river completed the board, sending Kuan to the rail in 28th place. The tables will be balanced once everyone returns for level 18 to have three tables of nine players each.
Fatih Aydin raised from the cutoff and Ole Schemion three-bet the button to get called by Clyde Tjauw Foe as well as Aydin. On the three-way flop of , all three players checked and Schemion then bet 59,000 after the turn. Only Tjauw Foe called and did so again for 200,000 with the river completing the board.
Schemion turned over for the nut straight and his opponent from the Netherlands mucked.
Clyde Tjauw Foe opened to 10,500 on the feature table and Jesper Onrust three-bet to 26,500 from one seat over. The start-of-the-day chip leader called to see the flop of and both players checked. After the turn, Onrust bet 31,000. Tjauw Foe raised and snap-called all in for 200,000 with , Onrust was drawing dead already with . The river card was already meaningless and Onrust headed to the rail in 29th place for a payday of €8,261.
Amir Mozaffarian raised to 11,000 and called the three-bet of Marcel Verheul for 25,000 to see the heads-up flop of . Mozaffarian check-called a continuation bet of 50,000 and the on the turn was checked through. The river saw the German checking once again and Verheul immediately went all in.
The dealer counted the stack of the Dutchman and it was 108,500, more than half of the remaining stack of Mozaffarian. He tanked for a few minutes and the clock was called on him. With 15 seconds to go, Mozaffarian mucked his cards and Verheul scooped the pot.
Stuart Rutter open-shoved from the cutoff for 105,500 and it was passed to Michiel Brummelhuis in the big blind who got a count and then made the call.
Rutter:
Brummelhuis:
"Black flop!" shouted Ruben Visser.
The flop came and Brummelhuis rolled his eyes. The turn changed nothing but even Rutter winced when the hit the river to give the Englishman the nut flush for the pot.
"I gotten very lucky against Dutch players," admitted Rutter, who hit a one-outer to knock out Jorryt van Hoof yesterday.