Shortstack since a while, Antonio Ponce just doubled up.
Ponce: K♣9♦
Benoit Kuhn: Q♣8♣
The board 7♠4♥A♠A♦A♣ kept Ponce alive in this Main Event.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
700,000
300,000
|
300,000 |
Javier Romero just left the field, all in before the flop.
Romero: K♦Q♦
Marcel Lopko: A♥Q♥
The board 4♥10♠8♠7♣5♥ didn't help Romero. He finished thirteenth position for €2,610.
On the next hand, Nico Pohl and his 650,000 stack left won a flip, with pocket four against king queen off held by Sylwester Fortuna.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
2,700,000
1,100,000
|
1,100,000 |
|
1,600,000
200,000
|
200,000 |
|
1,350,000
395,000
|
395,000 |
|
Busted |
All shortstacks just doubled up. Tom-Aksel Bedell won a flip with K♠Q♥ against 7♠7♥. Then Samuel Mullur got lucky with Q♦J♥ against K♥10♥ held by Nico Pohl. He found a queen on the turn.
On the other table, Antonio Ponce was also lucky with A♦4♣ against A♣K♦, the flop brought two other fours.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,000,000
170,000
|
170,000 |
|
|
1,000,000
300,000
|
300,000 |
|
900,000
200,000
|
200,000 |
|
||
Level: 25
Blinds: 40,000/80,000
Ante: 80,000
German player Rainer Kempe lost a big pot versus Oleksandr Krasnov.
He opened under the gun and got a call from Krasnov in the big blind.
On the flop A♠9♥6♥, Kempe continuation-bet, call.
On the turn 9♣, Kempe bet 330,000 and Krasnov called again.
On the river 2♥, Krasnov took the lead for 325,000 and Kempe called muck when he saw K♥7♥, a flush for his opponent.
Few moment later, Kempe was all in against Benoit Kuhn.
Kempe: K♥Q♣
Kuhn: 4♥4♠
Kuhn won the flip and Kempe took the twelth position for €2,900.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
While Kempe busted, Nico Pohl was all in in the other table against Marcos Fernandez.
Pohl: A♣3♣
Fernandez: K♥Q♦
Local player Fernandez improved and Pohl was out of the tournament in eleventh place for €3,200.
Unofficial final table will occur once 9 players are left. But they will play tonight until 8 left, all coming back tomorrow at 1 p.m.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
Busted |
Tom-Aksel Bedell open shoved under the gun for 925,000 and Marcel Lopko into the next seat went also all in, with almost the same ammount of chips.
Bedell: A♣Q♣
Lopko: K♠J♠
The board ran A♦9♣7♦10♦5♣ and Lopko was left with crumbles. He busted two hands after, in a forced all-in in big blind. Marcel Lopko took the tenth place for €3,750.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
Busted |
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| SEAT | PLAYER | COUNTRY | CHIPS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sebastian Schulze | Germany | 3,800,000 | |
| 2 | Oleksandr Krasnov | Ukraine | 3,000,000 | |
| 3 | Eduard Rau | Spain | 1,100,000 | |
| 4 | Benoit Kuhn | France | 7,200,000 | |
| 5 | Antonio Ponce | Spain | 1,100,000 | |
| 6 | Sylwester Fortuna | Spain | 3,300,000 | |
| 7 | Tom-Aksel Bedell | Norway | 1,700,000 | |
| 8 | Marcos Fernandez | Spain | 1,200,000 | |
| 9 | Samuel Mullur | Austria | 900,000 |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
7,200,000
1,200,000
|
1,200,000 |
|
3,800,000
1,000,000
|
1,000,000 |
|
|
3,300,000
1,700,000
|
1,700,000 |
|
3,000,000
1,600,000
|
1,600,000 |
|
|
1,700,000
700,000
|
700,000 |
|
1,200,000
600,000
|
600,000 |
|
1,100,000
-1,200,000
|
-1,200,000 |
|
|
1,100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
|
900,000 | |
|
|
||
Players went in a small break before starting the unofficial final table. And on the first hand, Eduard Rau was at risk.
Rau: J♣J♦
Schulze: A♥A♦
The board ran K♣Q♠10♥10♣6♥ and Rau was out before the final table tomorrow.
All 8 players are now bagging. Full recap will follow.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
Busted |
