While another Chinese dragon sneaked up to the tournament room under loud drums and further tam tam, Barny Boatman walked downstairs and quickly sent a "back tomorrow" our way before exiting the casino.
In a huge three-way all in, Barny Boatman was all in for 16,000 and Jonas Lauck reshoved with to see Thomas Lust call for around 56,000 with . Boatman's pocket fours were already dust when another queen appeared on the flop whereas Lauck was left with 9,000 chips.
The German would put those at risk shortly after with and Lust finished him off with the .
Omar Lakhdari limped without seeing his cards and two other players limped before Tobias Peters raised. Lakhdari now shoved, still apparently without having seen his cards.
Peters called all in for 24,000 with and was shown the monster hand by Lakhdari, who indeed got there on a board of .
The full action is unknown but Jörg Peisert was all in and at risk with only to see Mohamed Mamouni look him up with the superior stack and . The board ran out and just like that Peisert was gone.
Miroslav Alilovic had a bet of 35,000 in front of him and Bert Geens moved all in for 101,300, getting the Frenchman out of the way.
One table over, Pierre Neuville four-bet to 15,000 with very little behind and eventually got it in preflop with . The pocket fives of Erwann Pecheux held up and the PMU pro scored the knockout.
This time Adam Owen would be sent to the rail after running with pocket kings into the top pair and top kicker of Michel Leibgorin as well as the set of sixes of Christian van der Haegen. The Belgian would bust Owen and take a huge chunk off the stack of Leibgorin.
It was yet another that faced the opposition of Erwann Pecheux and Martin Mulsow had said hand for more than 40,000 chips. Pecheux looked him up with in the big blind after four-bet shoving himself and would not see any upset after all community cards had been burned and turned. "Ah well, guess I gotta come back tomorrow then," Mulsow sighed.