On the tail end of a big pot brewing between Waldemar Kopyl and Benjamin Streber, the former bet the river for 12,625 and Kopyl quickly tossed in three T-5,000 chips for the call. Kopyl turned over the for a full house and Kopyl was left in agony, dropping to fewer than half the starting stack as a result.
Jay Tse has been eliminated and Mick Graydon followed him to the rail after a rather upsetting set-under-set scenario with deuces against the pocket nines of Tim Becker. The latter has taken over the lead at his table followed by Maurice Wiencke, who was moved over there.
In a battle of the blinds, Andreas Fritz and Andre Haneberg invested 1,275 to see a flop of . Fritz quickly checked with a big grin on the face and called a bet of 1,025 by Haneberg before check-calling another 2,425 on the turn.
Fritz also checked the on the river and Haneberg eventually checked behind to see an excited Fritz turn over , which won the pot.
Jesper Hansen raised to 700 from the under-the-gun position and he was called by Eljano Hysaj, in mid-position, Fabian Gumz (hijack), the player in the small blind and Krunoslav Obravac (big blind).
The flop came , the small blind and Obravac checked, Hansen bet 1,650, Hysaj called. Gumz, the small blind, and Obravac all folded.
The turn brought them the on which they both checked, The river completed the board with the [As}, now Hansen check-called the 1,700 bet of Hysaj. Hysaj showed but Hansen had for the rivered pair of aces and the pot.
Peter Rininsland has been eliminated while Roman Wieczorek dropped to just over half the starting stack after ending up second best in a hand against Maurice Wiencke. Picking up the action on the turn, Wieczorek bet 2,500 and Wiencke called on the button.
The appeared on the turn and Wieczorek slowed down and checked. Wiencke bet 5,200 and forced a fold before flashing for a flopped set.
At the end of the previous level, Patrick Glaeser check-called a bet of 1,200 by Waldemar Kopyl on the turn and checked again the on the river. Kopyl bet 3,800 and Glaeser reluctantly called to see Kopyl turn over . Glaeser had that beat with and bumped his stack to almost two times the starting stack.
On the three-way flop of with 11,000 in the middle, Caglar Aytekin moved all in for his last 5,600 and Peter Rininsland placed a bet of 8,000 from one seat over. Since it was fewer than 50%, it was ruled as a call and Arni Gardasson called as well. After the turn, Rininsland bet 12,000 and Gardasson folded.
Aytekin turned over for a straight draw while Rininsland had the . The on the river improved Aytekin to a straight and he tripled up to just shy of the starting stack. The biggest pile of chips on that very same table belongs to Charalampos Tzampazis in the one seat, though.