Serhat Cetiner raised to 25,000 from early positions and found two callers in Mehmet Sinan Ogan as well as Marko Banovic in the small blind. On the flop, the action was checked to Cetiner and none of his two opponents wanted to pay the continuation bet of 51,000.
The action folded to Yuri Kaganovich in the small blind and he moved all in for what looked like just under 200,000.- Serhat Cetiner checked both his hole cards and then announced call.
Cetiner:
Kaganovich:
The board ran out and Kaganovich was sent to the rail in 9th place for a payday of €2,600.
There were a few raise and take it hands before the action then folded to Yevgeniy Dudos on the button. He made it 24,000 to go and Ates Hikmet three-bet to 57,000 from one seat over. Dudos moved all in for 280,000 in total and Hikmet cut out the chips for a call, gave it some more thought and released his cards into the muck.
Fuat Tanindi defended his small blind against the raise of chip leader Mehmet Sinan Ogan and then check-raised all in after a flop of . Ogan called after making a continuation bet of 26,000 and turned over for top pair and the flush draw. Tanindi was drawing with the and made a straight after the turn and the river completed the board.
Manig Loeser raised to 24,000 and then four-bet shoved after Yevgeniy Dudos had put in a three-bet to 64,000 out of the small blind. The German moved all in from the cutoff and was snap-called by the Russian:
Dudos:
Loeser:
The start-of-the-day chip leader was looking for diamonds or high cards to make a straight, but the [ flop left him drawing dead. The turn and the river completed the board, putting in a huge dent into the stack of the German. He was down to 80,000 and won the blinds and antes the next hand after his all in move went through uncalled.
Fuat Tanindi had previously folded after raising and facing the all in of Mehmet Sinan Ogan. Now, Tanindi was sitting in the big blind and Manig Loeser was all in for 81,000 chips. Tanindi eventually made the call and both players turned over their cards:
Loeser:
Tanindi:
The German immediately spiked top pair on the flop of and only had to fair jacks, as that would complete a straight for Tanindi. Loeser held up with the turn and the river as final two community cards.
Shortly after his double up, Manig Loeser was all in from under the gun and Ates Hikmet called from the cutoff, all players behind folded.
Loeser:
Hikmet:
The German found an ace, but Hikmet also improved to a set on the flop, leaving Loeser to runner-runner outs only in order to stay in the tournament. It was all over by the turn and the German already exited the table with the word “good game guys” before heading to the payout desk. The meaningless river completed the board and Loeser receives €3,265 for his efforts.
In back-to-back hands, Marko Banovic ran out of chips. The first hand saw a raising war with Banovic all in and he put Serhat Cetiner at risk for slightly less chips out of the big blind. Cetiner had a coin flip for his last 461,000 chips with and faced the of Banovic.
The flop changed nothing whatsoever, but Banovic got there with the on the turn. The dealer then burned and turned the for a two outer and Cetiner doubled up.
Banovic was all in for his last 26,000 chips the very next hand and got called by Cetiner and Sergey Minaev in the big blind, who had called blind without seeing his cards. Cetiner and Minaev checked through the board and Banovic showed the for top pair. Cetiner couldn't beat that with but Minaev then glanced at his cards and flipped over for a straight.