Sontheimer Building a Stack
The action has been fairly tame once the final six players were reached but that is to be expected with everyone being so deep. Steffen Sontheimer has been willing to mix it up and he has started to build a stack by doing so.
With the action folded to Sontheimer in the small blind, he raised it up to 200,000 with 
. Nick Petrangelo defended from the big blind with 
and the flop came 
. Sontheimer led out for 115,000 with top pair and Petrangelo called with middle pair.
The 
on the turn gave Sontheimer two pair and he fired another 525,000. Petrangelo still called and the 
completed the board. Sontheimer pushed in a bet of 1,300,000 and Petrangelo snap-called after improving to a smaller two pair. Sontheimer collected the pot and moved into the chip lead with over 10,000,000 chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
10,085,000 | 5,085,000 |
|
8,000,000 | -765,000 |
|
6,815,000 | -1,860,000 |
|
3,590,000 | -975,000 |
|
3,515,000 | 525,000 |
|
2,015,000 | -1,990,000 |