Three players saw a flop of . One player checked to Asmo Votkin who moved all in for his last 10,500. Gintautas Strioga called in position and the other player in the hand folded.
Votkin:
Strioga:
The third player in the hand shook his head as he watched the turn and the river dealt, sealing Votkin's fate and boosting Strioga's chipstack even more.
Martin Kabrhel has lost a few chips but remains among the big stacks, while David Taborsky bumped up his stack as of recently.
In a battle of the blinds, Taborsky bet the flop for 4,500 and Karlovarsky Kral called from one seat over. The turn paired the board and Taborsky checked. Karlovarsky Kral bet 11,000 and claimed the pot.
Petr Kotik got his short stack in with and Koycho Koychev called in the big blind with . The board came and the ace-high was good to spell the end for Kotik.
Udo Tran was all in and at risk from one table over with the and Matous Skorepa held to remain ahead. Skorepa's wild ride brought him back to an above-average stack.
Magic Man 558 moved all in from the button. Onur Kazgan was in the small blind and motioned to Magic Man to lift his arm and reveal his stack. It was then that Kazgan realised that Magic Man was all in for just 10,000. Kazgan called as did Nerijus Luksa in the big blind.
The pair checked down the flop and Magic Man showed for ace-high and got to his feet. However, neither Luksa nor Kazgan felt like they wanted to show their cards. Despite Magic Man insisting it wasn't necessary, the dealer turned over Luksa's and Kazgan's .
Magic Man raked in the chips, grumbling as he did so in German that he was winning chips in boring pots like that and not big splashy ones from earlier in the tournament.
The first 13 levels are done and the players have been sent on a 10-minute break, in which the black T-100 chips will be raced off. Two further levels of 30 minutes each are scheduled before bagging and tagging, and there are just 52 players remaining.
Mario Heissmann arrived at his new table and doubled his short stack with against the pocket queens of Edgaras Pipine. The latter saw the board run out and didn't have the to lost one third of his stack.
The last hand before the break then provided further fireworks.
Asmo Votkin and Markus Fritsche clashed and the latter check-shoved the turn. Votkin had bet 42,000 and called it off with the superior stack and . Fritsche was ahead with and the river was a blank to take a huge chunk out of Votkin's stack.
We didn't see exactly how Martin Kabrhel got his money into the middle (but then again with Kabrhel, anything is possible), but he just scored a huge doubled up against Marian Uharcek.
Uharcek held and Kabrhel .
The board ran out and Kabrhel's stack of 142,000 doubled to just under 300,000.
Kabrhel then beat Uharcek in a pot shortly after when Kabrhel's beat Uharcek's . He's now well over 300,000.
The last hour has seen a plethora of players run out of chips and the action has taken a toll on the remaining hopefuls. Fewer than one third of the entries remains in contention with 58 players out of a 196-entry strong field still in contention.
Daniel Novak raised to 6,000 from middle position and Nerijus Luksa raised to 13,000. The dealer didn't notice that he was all in, but they soon did once Luksa had reached into the tray to pluck the all-in triangle out and placed it in front of him.
It folded back around to Novak who called. Novak showed and Luksa looked content with his flip with .
The flop came . The turn was the giving Luksa a flush draw, but the Norwegian didn't seem too happy and got to his feet. He was just in time to see the roll off on the river, giving him the double up. He promptly sat back down.
. One player checked to Asmo Votkin who moved all in for his last 10,500. Gintautas Strioga called in position and the other player in the hand folded.
turn and the 
river dealt, sealing Votkin's fate and boosting Strioga's chipstack even more.
flop for 4,500 and Karlovarsky Kral called from one seat over. The 
turn paired the board and Taborsky checked. Karlovarsky Kral bet 11,000 and claimed the pot.
and Koycho Koychev called in the big blind with 
. The board came 
and the ace-high was good to spell the end for Kotik.
and Matous Skorepa held 
for ace-high and got to his feet. However, neither Luksa nor Kazgan felt like they wanted to show their cards. Despite Magic Man insisting it wasn't necessary, the dealer turned over Luksa's 
and Kazgan's 
.
against the pocket queens of Edgaras Pipine. The latter saw the board run out 
and didn't have the 
. Fritsche was ahead with 
and the 
and Kabrhel 
.
and Kabrhel's stack of 142,000 doubled to just under 300,000.
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