Jussi Nevanlinna raised from early position and then quickly called the shove of short stack Pieter de Korver for what looked like 100,000.
Nevanlinna:
de Korver:
The flop was bad news for the Dutchman and the on the turn left him drawing to a chop only with a jack on the river. The river was a blank and that reduced the field to 11 players.
Makarios Avramidis four-bet shoved over on the feature table with and Kees van Brugge looked him up with the . There was no upset flush for either player on a board of and they chopped it up.
Three times in a row, Georgios Zisimopoulos raised to 35,000. In the third hand, Jussi Nevanlinna put up some resistance and made it 85,000 to go before the Greek clicked to 140,000. Nevanlinna five-bet and that enforced a fold from Zisimopoulos.
Bryan Paris raised to 35,000 from early position and Joep van den Bijgaart called in the big blind. On the flop , van den Bijgaart check-raised from 30,000 to 82,000 and Paris folded.
In a battle small blind versus button, Kees van Brugge bet the river of a board for 79,000 and Donald Rae called. Van Brugge showed for a flush and Rae mucked to lose a few chips while his opponent moved to almost one million in chips.
[Removed:172] raised from the cutoff and Michiel Brummelhuis moved all in for 202,000 from one seat over, which the German snap-called.
Brummelhuis:
Kramer:
The German rail asked for a ten, but this time the wish fell on deaf ears. They were still celebrating though, as the board ran out to send Brummelhuis to the rail in 13th place.
Over on the feature table, Johnny Hansen was all in and at risk for 377,000 preflop with the and faced resistance in Pieter de Korver with . The board ran out and the Dane doubled up.
[Removed:172] moved all in for 175,000 and Michiel Brummelhuis made the call out of the big blind. The German rail with Martin Finger gathered not far away from the table and demanded for an "eight ball" when they spotted the cards.
Kramer:
Brummelhuis:
The wish was granted as the flop came . The turn was a sweat as any club would result in Kramer's exit, yet it was the blank that let him double up.
With the board reading , Clyde Tjauw Foe bet 85,000 out of the big blind and Kees van Brugge raised to 185,000 from the cutoff. The battle of the Dutchies went to van Brugge, as the finalist of last year folded his cards.