Sonay Kehya made it 175,000 preflop, and only Paul Michaelis on the button made the call. The two players checked through the flop before Michaelis fired 160,000 on the turn. Kehya called quickly.
The river saw Kehya check a third time, and this Michaelis bet a hefty 560,000, prompting Kehya to throw a single blue 100K chip in the middle to signal a call.
Michaelis slammed in the felt, and Kehya shook his head and cut out the right amount.
"Good for you, baby," Kehya said in somewhat of a Scotty Nguyen imitation after handing over the chips. Michaelis just smiled.
British poker pro James Akenhead was just eliminated in 40th place. As he open-jammed , his friend Ludovic Geilich popped over to see how things were going.
Seconds later, Akenhead was called by Grzegorz Gosk holding .
Akenhead stood up after the flop despite having top pair and runner-runner straight and flush draws. The on the turn gave Gosk a set, but also opened up more outs for Akenhead. The was the nail in the coffin and Akenhead was eliminated in 41st place for €4,500.
Meanwhile, Gosk's chip stack soared to 2.65 million.
The action folded around to Przemyslaw Piotrowski in the small blind, and the Polak moved all-in for around 500,000 holding . Kristian Krushorev in the big blind made the call with , and they held all the way to the bank as the board ran out .
Jan Bendik is no more in this partypoker LIVE Million Germany Main Event after losing a big pot to German poker veteran Eddy Scharf. Scharf opened to 150,000 and a player flatted before Jan Bendik reraised to 475,000 out of the small blind. Just Scharf made the call.
The flop came down and Bendik lead out for 475,000, Scharf put Bendik to the test for around 900,000 more and Bendik committed the rest of his stack.
Scharf:
Bendik:
Scharf had flopped top set, but Bendik had outs to the flush. The gave the Slovak additional outs to make a straight, but the river paired the board and sent the pot to the 2001 Fixed Limit Omaha bracelet winner.
The very next hand Miroslav Janek was sent packing as well when he ran into the of Jaroslav Peter, and that leaves just 44 players left in this tournament.
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Former poker dealer Matúš Schnierer was sweating hard. He looked at one of his cards he later said was an ace and jammed in for less than four big blinds or 230,000. He thought his day was done after he got one caller, but then he got two more to bring four hands into the hand.
The hand took a few minutes to play out. During this time, partypoker Tournament Director Christian Scalzi reminded Schnierer on two occasions not to leave the table because the dealer could accidentally muck his cards. He warned Schnierer after the second time he wouldn't be getting a third reminder. Schnierer calmed his nerves and sat back in his seat.
His three opponents subsequently checked down all three streets on a board before all four players turned over their cards. Two of Schnierer's opponents held ace-ten while the third one held king-queen. Schnierer turned over for top pair which was good enough to collect a pot just north of 1 million chips.
Lukas Jebavy made it 140,000 to go from first position, and 7ander on the button moved all-in for around a cool million. The blinds got out of the way, and Jebavy made the call.
Jebavy's were way out in front of 7andar's , and when the board ran out , 7andar was out in 49th place. With that elimination, another table was collapsed as the remaining 48 players are now gathered on six full tables.