Frei Dilling opened the cutoff to 24,000 and was met by a three bet from Timo Pfutzenreuter who made it 68,000 out of the small blind. Dilling made the call and the two of them saw a flop.
on the flop and Pfutzenreuter made a 66,000 continuation bet. Dilling thought about it for some time, and then raised to 142,000. Pfutzenreuter made the call and both players checked the on the turn.
The fell on the river and with one hand Pfutzenreuter bet out 253,000. Dilling folded rather quickly and Pfutzenreuter gathered the chips.
Anatoly Filatov raised to 25,000 from the under-the-gun position and chip leader Pablo Gordillo three-bet to 95,000. Filatov called and the flop rolled out and the Russian player checked.
Gordillo bet 33,000 and Filatov called and on the turn the hit. Filatov checked again on the turn and now Gordillo bet 63,000 and Filatov check-raised to 175,000.
Gordillo tanked for a bit before ultimately making the call. On the river the hit and Filatov bet 325,000 into a pot of 558,000. After tanking for a quite a while Gordillo called with for a flopped straight. Filatov showed and his stack took a big hit.
The player in the cutoff raised, Michel Abecassis three-bet and Oleksii Khoroshenin opted to four-bet to 112,000. The initial raiser folded and Abecassis moved all in for 334,000 putting Khoroshenin in the tank for quite a while. Eventually the Russian player called and the showdown went as following.
Khoroshenin:
Abecassis:
The board ran out and Abecassis' strong ace fell as Khoroshenin hit his kicker.
Dan Murariu opened under the gun to 27,000 and he received two callers before Timo Pfutzenreuter in the big blind squeezed to 94,000. Murariu clicked it back to 157,000, but was forced to make it 161,000 to make it a valid raise. Both players caught in between, amongst them Marcel Luske in the small blind, folded. Action back on Pfutzenreuter who moved all in. Murariu called immediately.
Dan Murariu:
Timo Pfutzenreuter:
The board blanked out completely: giving Murariu the pot.
Murariu got his 430,000 stack times twice, plus some dead money and antes. Pfutzenreuter in the meantime is down to a little under a million.
Ludovic Riehl just ended up all in before the flop for this tournament life worth 283,000 chips and he was up against Bulgarian bracelet winner Simeon Naydenov.
Naydenov:
Riehl:
The board ran out and Riehl was knocked out as his set on the river gave Naydenov a straight.