A raise to 25,000 was in front of Anatoly Filatov and Benjamin Benoit in the hijack three-bet to 55,000. Filatov clicked it up to 165,000 and Benoit called. After a four-bet between both big stacks preflop, no further action would follow as the duo checked down the board of .
Filatov showed for a pair of aces and Benoit flashed his two cards, revealing the , before sending them into the muck.
Jan-Peter Jachtmann's raise was called by Matthias De Meulder in the small blind and Moritz Dietrichin the big blind. On a flop of , the action checked to Jachtmann and the partypoker team pro from Germany moved all in. De Meulder asked for a count and the shove was for 219,000.
De Meulder folded, as did Moritz, and the pot was shipped to Jachtmann.
Moritz Dietrich raised from the cutoff and Jan-Peter Jachtmann moved all in for more than 25 big blinds out of the small blind. Once the action was back on Dietrich, he called and Jachtmann was the player at risk with the inferior hand.
Jan-Peter Jachtmann:
Moritz Dietrich:
There was no help on the board and jachtmann had to settle for ninth place, while Dietrich claimed the top spot once again.
Matthias De Meulder raised to 23,000 and manig Loeser called out of the big blind. The duo checked the flop before Loeser checked and called a bet of 36,000 by De Meulder on the turn. The river was checked again and Loeser announced ace-high, which De Meulder had beat with .
Matthias De Meulder raised to 23,000 and Moritz Dietrich three-bet to 60,000, which the Belgian called. On a flop of , De Meulder check-raised from 50,000 to 138,000 and Dietrich called before the turn saw a bet of 257,000 by De Meulder and a call by Dietrich.
The river paired the board and completed a possible flush draw- De Meulder moved all in for 440,000 and Dietrich snap-called to see the Belgian table for a busted straight draw. Dietrich had that beat with for a full house and claimed a massive pot.
"He showed a lot of heart," Sander van Wesemael said in table chat while Dietrich bumped his stack to more than two million.
The previous level was completed and the new level reflected the new blind duration for the final table. As of now, all levels last 60 minutes each and the two short stacks are table neighbours Manig Loeser and Jack Sinclair, who both jokingly compared their ... stack sizes.
On the turn in a battle of the blinds, Moritz Dietrich bet 70,000 and Benjamin Benoit called. The appeared on the river and Dietrich bet another 180,000. Benoit quickly tossed in a single chip for the call and claimed the pot with for trips fives, while Dietrich was was caught with the fingers in the cookie jar.