Thivakaran Sundaralingam pushed all-in against Martin Scharfetter who promptly called.
Thivakaran Sundaralingam:
Martin Scharfetter:
The board ran out which was no help for Scharfetter who suffered a significant dent to their stack. Sundaralingam celebrated by shouting " I am back" as he raked in his winning pot.
All the chips went in before the flop between Erkan Soenmez and Andreas Fischer with both players holding near identical stack sizes.
Andreas Fischer:
Erkan Soenmez:
The flop improved Soenmez to trips jacks and the turn made that a full house. Nothing changed anymore on the river and the stacks were counted. Soenmez had 77,000 and that covered Fischer.
The downslide of Pierre Trauer continued after he was moved tables when the German looked up a short stack shove by Ilie Smintanca Januszewski.
Ilie Smintanca Januszewski:
Pierre Trauer:
The flop all but locked up the double for the Belgian with Romanian roots. However, the mandatory sweat followed on the turn before the river bricked off.
Tommaso Bonini defended the big blind against a raise by Benyamin Glot and check-called the flop for 7,500. They checked the on the turn and Bonini also checked the on the river. Glot now bet 10,000 and his opponent immediately had a dry smile on the face. Bonini mulled it over for half a minute and called but mucked to the of Glot.
Several former bigger stacks such as Dalibor Dula, Michael Roe, Clement Cure, and Saba Samieian have all departed as the field has been whittled down to the final 171 players.
Jason Wheeler had defended the big blind against Gert Niewerth and they created a pot worth 60,000 to the turn. Wheeler pushed all-in and Niewerth called with the inferior stack.
Gert Niewerth:
Jason Wheeler:
The river only improved Niewerth and he doubled for 44,000.
"You were already dead and at the reception," Engin Arslan remarked to Niewerth and then added "now you have chips to play."
If there is one player that can quickly run up a stack especially at the King's Resort, it is Martin Kabrhel. And he just added even further chips to his growing wall after he scored a double knockout. The cards were already in the muck as Aleksandar Tomovic and Mario Llapi headed to the rail.
Tomovic, runner-up of the last edition earlier in 2022, put his hopes on ace-king and the same also applied for Llapi. Kabrhel only had a mighty pair of fours but that prevailed to ensure the double knockout.