Sebastien Comel opened to 60,000 from under-the-gun and action folded around to Joshua Prager - who three-bet to 205,000. Undeterred, Comel slid his entire stack into the middle for an all-in bet for over a million and Prager quickly mucked.
Comel is sitting on 1.6 million at the moment, while Prager has slipped to 620,000.
It folded around to Hieu Nguyen in the small blind who completed, then Dominik Nitsche put in a raise from the big blind which Nguyen called.
The flop came , and Nguyen only paused a beat before declaring he was pushing his short stack all in. Nitsche took even less time to call, tabling for top set. Nguyen flipped over for an open-ended straight draw. The turn was the and river the , and Nguyen is out.
"How could you call that?" joked Daniel Eichhorn afterwards to Nitsche. "All you have is a set and he has a straight draw… you're at risk!"
Nitsche chuckled in response. He has reason to smile, as that hand pushes him up over the 3 million-chip mark, enabling him to increase his lead with 11 left.
The table folded around to Joshua Prager in the small blind who looked down at his stack of almost 400,000, checked his cards, and declared he was all in. Jonathan Hilton called instantly.
Prager turned over , and gave a little half-smile as he saw what Hilton had woken up with — . The flop only worsened the situation for Prager, and the turn made the river no matter.
"Well played, sir," cracked Daniel Eichhorn afterwards. "That's exactly how I would've played it."
The remaining 10 players are now redrawing for seats around a single table.
Randolph Lanosga opened for 90,000 from under-the-gun and action folded around to Iakov Onuchin in the cutoff seat, who pushed all in for about 550,000. It was folded back to Lanosga, who thought it over and announced, "Call," to put Lanosga at risk.
Lanosga:
Iakov:
Iakov was in excellent shape to double going to the flop, which came . Lanosga picked up outs with a pair of queens, but was still well behind. The turn changed nothing, however, a fell on the river - giving Lanosga two-pair and sending an unlucky Onuchin to the rail.
Dominik Nitsche came back from dinner picking up pots and pushing his stack up close to 4 million. Just now he was raising again to 80,000 from the cutoff and got two callers in Martin Vallo (small blind) and Sebastien Comel (big blind). The flop came . It checked to Nitsche who bet 105,000, then Vallo check-raised to 250,000. Comel thought a bit, then called Vallo's raise, and Nitsche got out.
The turn brought the and a check from Vallo. Comel fired 240,000, and after a pause Vallo let it go.
, and Nguyen only paused a beat before declaring he was pushing his short stack all in. Nitsche took even less time to call, tabling 
for top set. Nguyen flipped over 
for an open-ended straight draw. The turn was the 
and river the 
, and Nguyen is out.
. The 
flop only worsened the situation for Prager, and the 
river no matter.
. Lanosga picked up outs with a pair of queens, but was still well behind. The 
turn changed nothing, however, a 
. It checked to Nitsche who bet 105,000, then Vallo check-raised to 250,000. Comel thought a bit, then called Vallo's raise, and Nitsche got out.
and a check from Vallo. Comel fired 240,000, and after a pause Vallo let it go.
