Burns Busts Vogelsang First

Kahle Burns' stack looked like he had won a substantial pot of Jean-Noel Thorel already to propel him to a stack of above 3 million and now raised to 30,000 from under the gun. Thorel called in the cutoff. Christoph Vogelsang three-bet to 170,000 in the small blind. Orpen Kisacikoglu folded his big blind and Burns four-bet to 400,000. Thorel folded and Vogelsang made the call.

The flop came , Vogelsang check-called the 215,000 continuation-bet of Burns.

The turn was the , Vogelsang checked again. Burns now bet 375,000 and Vogelsang called after using a time-bank.

The river completed the board with the , Vogelsang checked for the last tie and this time Burns bet 2,090,000, keeping some chips behind, which was more than what Vogelsang had in front of him. Vogelsang dived into the tank, the dealer reached over to grab a time-bank when the first 30 seconds were over but Vogelsang asked if he could do it after the hand. Kisacikoglu was kind enough to help out by taking Vogelsang's time-bank and throwing four of them out every time the 30 seconds were up. After the fourth, Vogelsang called for the approximately 1,200,000 he had left.