DanielLUCKY has further climbed up the leaderboard thanks to a double knockout. Heading into the showdown, he was ahead with 
against a short-stacked "Fukuruku" with the 
and Kelvin "kelvin_fp:ar" Kerber.
The Brazilian pro had the worst of it with 
and was drawing dead on the turn of a 
board.
Pascal "Päffchen" Hartmann had been under pressure for some time and eventually found a spot to double when his held up against the 
of "soleej", the board came 
to let the kicker play.
However, one hand later both Hartmann and soleej were knocked out by Ron Jovi 7 when they got it in before the flop as follows:
Level: 17
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 1,250
Around three hours of effective playing time remain as 116 players out of 575 entries head into their next scheduled 5-minute break.
"ricer19" remains at the top of the counts while Andras "probirs" Nemeth missed out on a knockout right before heading into the break. He min-raised and "ale6ka" defended the big blind, then got his last five big blinds in with the on a 
flop. Nemeth called with 
and the 
turn locked up the double, which made the 
river a formality.
On a table filled with notables and bigger stacks, it was a shorter-stacked "KuuL" that got it in with a decent pocket pair only for "DanielLUCKY" in the small blind to have that beat.
KuuL could not get lucky with 
versus 
on a board of 
and was sent to the rail.
Only 127 players remain and several former big stacks have vanished but banked more than their buy-in as bounty prizes.
Level: 16
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 1,000
Andrey "ThePateychuk" Pateychuk in the big blind ended up all-in with the 
and Jorryt "TheCleaner11" van Hoof made the call with the 
on the button.
On a board of 
, the queen on the turn gave Pateychuk the lead only for the ace on the river to restore the preflop order.
Dutch poker pro Rens "Rens02" Feenstra looked up TruthBeTold7 in a battle of the blinds with versus 
and the 
board gave Feenstra a flush on the river.
Sam "SamSquid" Grafton was in trouble and short stacked, getting it in with the 
against the of Kelvin "kelvin_fp:ar" Kerber and the of "KuuL". However, the following board delivered two kings for Grafton to get back in contention.
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