Anastasios Mastroudis raised to 20,000 from early position and the big blind called. On the flop, the big blind checked and Mastroudis continued for 23,000, which was called.
After the turn, both players checked and the big blind checked again the river. Mastroudis bet 35,000 and was called to claim the pot with .
Jonathan Klüpfel was stacking a ton of chips, amounting to more than one million, and table mate Tony Veille confirmed what happened.
Klüpfel raised to 21,000 and the small blind three-bet to 60,000, Klüpfel called. On the flop, the small blind bet 60,000 and Klüpfel announced a raise. His opponent beat him into the pot by shoving pocket kings and Klüpfel snap-called with for the straight. Turn and river were blanks.
Thomas Zurek was all in for his last 12 big blinds with and Tippy333 called with to hit a straight. Soon after, tournament staff told the dealers to hold the action, as they are checking how many players exactly remain. According to the screens, that would be 106 with 103 in the money.
The action folded to Francisco Arce on the button and he open-shoved into both blinds, who had far less chips. One of them folded and Tezer Cetimndag in the big blind tank-folded and said he had . Arce turned over his cards and it was the monster .
During hand-for-hand mode, Francisco Arce raised to 25,000 on the cutoff and Marco Antonio Natalino called on the button. On the flop, Arce checked and Natalino bet 25,000, Arce called.
After the turn, Arce checked again. Natalino now bet 30,000 and Arce check-raised all in to see Natalino call for his last 107,000. All other tables finished their action and the cards were turned over.
Reinhard Foidl moved all in for around 120,000 and Christian Sperrer called from one seat over. All other tables finished their action and the cards were turned over.
Foidl:
Sperrer:
"Black cards please!" Foidl demanded, but he was also happy with the board of .
Andrej Dikos was all in for only 26,000 out of the big blind and Timur Caglan looked him up out of the small blind.
Dikos:
Caglan:
The board ran out and Dikos doubled.
On another table, Tippy333 jammed the river with a pot of around 100,000. JENNY called all in for his last 98,000 with and Tippy333 mucked the . One hand later, Tetyana Chernysheva moved all in and stole the blinds and antes. Still 105 left!
The board was showing and short stack Sladan Babic had been all in from the cutoff before the flop. The big blind isolated on the turn to get another player out of the hand and they waited until all tables were done with their action.
Babic then turned over for a set, his opponent only had and the river was a formality. Babic joked "see you on the final table."