The seats of Kristen Bicknell and Manig Loeser are empty and Sascha Minerva confirmed what happened to the latter.
Petr Vlček raised from the button and the small blind called before Loeser shoved 500,000 with . Vlček happily called with pocket aces and this time the German could not secure a miracle. Bicknell had the same fate, running with pocket nines into the best pocket pair as well.
Within quick succession, Paul Michaelis won two pots in a row to bump up his stack nicely. The first one was against Ismael Bojang and the latter versus Vojtěch Kratochvíl. The Czech raised and Michaelis three-bet before betting the flop. On the turn, Kratochvil checked and called a second barrel by Michaelis for 340,000.
The river brought another check by Kratochvil and Michaelis moved all in for his last 1,465,000 to force a fold.
Kenny Hallaert opened the action for 65,000 abd picked up calls from Julez and Milan Topoly. Hossein Ensan was in the big blind and his fold was so out of character that Hallaert gave him a quizzical look from across the table to which Ensan merely smiled and shrugged.
The flop was .
Hallaert checked, Julez bet 75,000, Topoly called and Hallaert stuck around.
The turn card saw no further action and no one fancied a stab at the river card to it was time to show.
After a raise to 65,000 by Boris Becker, Martin Staszko moved all in with the superior stack and the partypoker ambassador called for his last 820,000.
Boris Becker:
Martin Staszko:
Neither of the over cards hit for Becker with the board running out and the former tennis legend was sent to the rail. He may very well be back in action for the €25,000 Super High Roller, though.
Among those to bust recently were Boris Kotleba, Gerhard Cit, Jeff Lisandro and Jiri Horak. The latter bought back in to get back in with 33 big blinds. Lisandro had a kicker problem with versus against on an ace-high board.
After a raise of Miroslav Lelek and a call by Albert Skobelev from one seat over in the hijack, Ondrej Mar in the cutoff three-bet to 245,000 and both his opponents called. The flop fell and the action checked to Mar, who continued for 480,000. Only Lelek called and checked the turn.
Mar, who had previously shoved into Lelek to build his stack, did so again for massive 3.1 million and Lelek had far less than that. After brief consideration, the Slovakian folded and Mar claimed the pot.
The registration for the Main Event will close at the end of the current level and subsequent dinner break. Sander van Wesemael has been eliminated and the same also applies for Jerome Sgorrano and Martin Kabrhel. The Czech poker brat has already bought back in, though, and will restart his mission to glory with 25 big blinds.