Karin Huber seemed to have poured every ounce of emotion in to her all out hands. Sometimes pleading for a call to double her up and occasionally not wanting any action. The one consistent was that she was having a great time and desperately didn’t want the game to stop for her.
Her end has finally arrived however when a late position shove of her short stack got looked up by Leo Schultz and she groaned in disappointment as the cards were on their backs.
Huber:
Schultx:
The board ran out
Huber flopped a straight draw and a ray of hope sprang into her eye. Even some of the other players seemed to be rooting for her to get there. It was not to be though and the smile returned as she shook hands with tablemate partypoker ambassador Marcel Luske and a few others and headed for the exit.
Holz had no hesitation calling Leon Tsoukernik's river bet
Leon Tsoukernik opened with a raise from the cutoff to 3,000 at 500/1,000 blinds, with Fedor Holz calling on the button. Both blinds folded, and they went heads up to a flop. Both players checked, before the dealer paired the on the turn. Tsoukernik checked again, with Holz putting in an immediate 2,000 bet. No sooner had Holz's chips cleared the line, than Tsoukernik had made the call.
The came down on the river, with Tsoukernik quickly firing off 6,500, which Holz had no hesitation in calling.
"King high," announced Tsoukernik, as Holz whipped over his to take the pot. The King's Casino owner took a small hit, but is still the table chipleader, and second overall.
While a few notables were sent to the rail in the last few minutes including Wim Neys, Jack Sinclair, Van Tiep Nguyen, Manig Loeser and Moritz Dietrich, Ismael Bojang bought back in and his previous table broke to move him to the exact seat he had previously busted from.
Just when he arrived, Marek Blasko was stacking even more chips and that came from a hand with Paul Michaelis. Blasko raised to 105,000 and Michaelis on the button three-bet to 340,000. Blasko asked for the stack of the German and called.
The flop fell and Blasko check-called a bet of 300,000 before betting the turn for 400,000. Michaelis folded and asked Blasko to show, who eventually agreed. "I hit a set," the Slovakian said just before turning over ... .
Alexander Burkart is another of the partypoker “Click & Collect” patch wearers having made it all the way to the German Poker Championships from a free ticket in his partypoker account.
Burkart opened from late position for 100,000 and faced a three bet from Simon Trumper, who bought in just before the end of late registration, for 255,000.
The blinds folded and it was heads-up to a flop of .
Neither player put any more chips in the pot on the flop and indeed it was checked on the turn and the river .
Trumper showed but the winner was the of Burkhart.
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier is slowly rebuilding his stack
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier raised it to 3,000 from the button, unopened, with Renato defending from the big blind after Tony G folded his small blind. They took a flop heads up, ElkY betting 4,000 when checked to. Renato made the call, before both players opted to check the turn.
The hit the river, completing the flopped flush draw. With action checked over to ElkY a third time, he went for a bet of 10,000, exactly two-thirds pot. Renato thought for 10 seconds or so, before agreeing to a showdown and making the call. ElkY tabled for the second-nut flush, as he dragged in the pot.
The prize pool information has been released and the top 100 spots will be paid at least €2,000, while the winner takes home €200,000. The payout percentage is based on the number of phase one entries, and not all of them reflect the respective value as different stacks were brought forward to Day 2 via the online and live qualifiers.
There are 440 million chips in play and one of the remaining 141 hopefuls will have them all on Monday, August 14th 2017.
Players who played a phase 1: 1,908
Phase 1 players that advanced to Day 1: 293
Players who bought in directly: 251
Martin Kabrhel was in the big blind and his sole remaining opponent in the small blind open-shoved into the Czech. Kabrhel gave it some thought and called with and the small blind only had .
The board came and Kabrhel held up to double.
Less fortunate were Anatoly Voropaev and Zdenko Slavik, who both busted.
Manig Loeser takes his seat in the Super High Roller
Just as tournament director Christian Scalzi announced the blind level increase to 600/1,200, Manig Loeser took his seat in the €25,000 Super High Roller.
After bubbling the €5,000 High Roller on Thursday, and failing to convert in Day 2 of the Main Event, Loeser will be looking to turn his festival around here. He's landed the seat directly between ElkY and Tony G.
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flop. Both players checked, before the dealer paired the 
on the turn. Tsoukernik checked again, with Holz putting in an immediate 2,000 bet. No sooner had Holz's chips cleared the line, than Tsoukernik had made the call.
came down on the river, with Tsoukernik quickly firing off 6,500, which Holz had no hesitation in calling.
to take the pot. The King's Casino owner took a small hit, but is still the table chipleader, and second overall.
and Blasko check-called a bet of 300,000 before betting the 
turn for 400,000. Michaelis folded and asked Blasko to show, who eventually agreed. "I hit a set," the Slovakian said just before turning over 
... .
. 
but the winner was the 
hit the river, completing the flopped flush draw. With action checked over to ElkY a third time, he went for a bet of 10,000, exactly two-thirds pot. Renato thought for 10 seconds or so, before agreeing to a showdown and making the call. ElkY tabled 
for the second-nut flush, as he dragged in the pot.
and the small blind only had 
.
