The pot already contained about 4,000 in it and the board read 
. Walter Beckmann check-called the 3,000 bet of Vedran Mandic.
The river completed the board with the 
, again Beckmann check-called the 4,000 bet of Mandic. Mandic showed 
for the rivered full house, deuces over aces. Beckmann showed the 
.
Level: 4
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 50
Ulrich Pauls is among those that started well and he bumped up his stack nicely early on, same goes for Rishi Bhasin.
Murat Tuelek is in for another shot accompanied by the "Grinding It Up" rail and Daniel Montagnolli has been spotted in the field as well.
On the tail end of a hand between Benjamin Streber in the small blind and Do Tran under the gun, the former checked the 
river and Tran bet 1,600 into a pot of 3,500. Streber called and Tran immediately mucked his cards.
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
2017 PokerStars Festival Hamburg High Roller champion Andre Haneberg has taken his seat on the same table as Marco Dittmann, Jan Meinberg and Fabian Gumz.
Behzad Zarnegar raised to 525 from the under-the-gun position and Marco Dittmann called from mid-position. Matthias Kahl, in the big blind, also called.
The flop came 
, Kahl bet 1,050, Zarnegar raised to 2,400. Dittmann folded and Kahl called.
They both checked on the 
on the turn and the 
on the river. Kahl showed 
for king-high. Zarnegar tabled for ace-high and the pot.
Jan Muhlenbruch raised to 350 from the under-the-gun position and was called by Vedran Mandic, in early position, and the players on the button and in the big blind.
The flop came 
, the big blind checked, Muhlenbruch bet 600, Mandic raised to 1,500, the players on the button and big blind folded. Muhlenbruch called.
They both checked through the 
on the turn and the on the river. Mandic showed 
for top pair and that was enough to take the pot.
Level: 2
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
Tom Holke got active right away on his table to show who the captain is, but after picking up a few pots early on he dropped a few chips.
Aleksandar Tomovic bet 2,000 into a pot of 3,500 on the heads-up flop of 
and forced a fold from his sole opponent.
The early chip leader over on table five appears to be Ji Zhang, who already built his stack by 50%.
With 82 players registered right before the start, the guarantee of €500,000 has been surpassed comfortably, and the registration remains open for the first six levels of 20 minutes each.
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