Steve O'Dwyer raised to 32,000, next to act was Manig Loeser who three-bet to 105,000. Timothy Adams folded but Felipe Ramos four-bet to 301,000. O'Dwyer folded and Loeser shoved for about 600,000. Ramos snap-called with the bigger stack.
Felipe Ramos:
Manig Loeser:
The board ran out - even though Loeser picked up a flush draw on the flop, that flush never materialized and he was eliminated from the tournament.
The board was already complete with more than 700,000 in the middle and Dominik Nitsche moved all in on the river. Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier called for his last 290,000 and Nitsche announced an ace, then rolled over . Grospellier was going to muck his cards, but as it was an all in showdown the cards of the Frenchman were turned over, it were for an inferior full house.
The vacant seat was filled swiftly with Markus Durnegger on his second bullet and Nitsche continued to bulldoze through the table in the next hand. Nitsche's raise to 40,000 was met with a three-bet by Manig Loeser for 200,000 and a jam of Nitsche followed to force a fold.
Patrick Leonard faced a raise to 50,000 by Antonello Capobianco in early position and three-bet out of the small blind, making it 175,000 to go. Capobianco quickly called and the flop fell . Leonard continued for 110,000 and Capobianco called. On the turn both players checked and Leonard made it 275,000 to go on the river.
Capobianco gave it some thought and called, then nodded and tapped the table when being shown by Leonard for a rivered full house.
Christoph Vogelsang was all in and at risk for his last 196,000 and was in prime shape with the . Thomer Pidun only held and the board of brought no upset.
Adrian Mateos couldn't be found at his table anymore but Felipe Ramos was kind enough to relay what had happened:
Steffen Sontheimer had opened, Adrian Mateos shoved all in. Steve O'Dwyer also shoved from the big blind. Sontheimer got out of their way. Mateos had ace-nine but he couldn't beat the pocket jacks of O'Dwyer.
Leon Tsoukernik has taken Patrik Antonius' old seat, hoping it would bring him more luck. On that same table, Dietrich Fast has accumulated more chips to take him to the top of the leaderboard.
Julian Thomas doubled through Dominik Nitsche when his held up against the ace-king of Nitsche on a board of .
Soon after, Daniel Pidun and his brother Thomer were eliminated in quick succession and Sam Trickett ran out of chips, while Adrian Mateos re-entered on his second bullet.
Thomer Pidun raised to 45,000 from the cutoff and called a three-bet by Chi Zhang in the small blind for 118,000 in total. The flop fell and Zhang continued for 100,000, Pidun called. On the turn, Zhang made it 155,000 to go and Pidun tossed in a call. After the river, Zhang checked and called the shove of Pidun for 612,000.
Pidun rolled over for a full house and Zhang had that beat with for the superior full house. Zhang then took on Orpen Kisacikoglu right after, raising to 50,000 on the button and receiving a call. Kisacikoglu ended up paying off a bet of Zhang for 140,000 on the river and mucked when the Brit flashed for a pair of kings.
A quick glance to the next table revealed Daniel Pidun all in for around 340,000 with the and Antonello Capobianco called with the . The bord came and Pidun's nines were cracked.
According to the screens, there are 27 players out of 42 entries remaining and they have been sent into their second 15-minute break of the day. The registration remains open for the next three levels and following break, and the T-1,000 chips will now be raced off.
Team partypoker member, Philipp Gruissem, has taken Sam Trickett's old seat between Steffen Sontheimer and Tobias Ziegler. Also, new to the table after a table move is Johannes Becker. Felipe Ramos is on that table too and is now playing about double the starting stack.
Markus Durnegger busted right when the new level started and Manig Loeser followed soon after, both players won't return for another attempt after firing two bullets in this event already.
Loeser lost most of his stack in a flip with against the of Stefan Schillhabel when the latter spiked a flush on the river of a board .
Julian Thomas raised to 55,000 from the cutoff and Loeser defended the big blind, but quickly check-folded the flop. The very next hand, Loeser shoved out of the small blind for 115,000 and Dietrich Fast snap-called in the big blind.
Manig Loeser:
Dietrich Fast:
"What a waste," someone at the table joked while the Germans were rooting for Loeser who almost got there on the board of .