Christoph Vogelsang raised to 550 pre-flop and got five callers including Dominykas Karmazinas and Vojtech Ruzicka. The flop was and each of the five players checked. On the turn Ruzicka bet 1,650 and Karmazinas was the only caller. The river was the and this time Ruzicka checked, and watched as Karmazinas bet 3,900.
Ruzicka tanked and looked torn in his decision. He eventually threw in a chip to make the call and Karmazinas tabled for the nut flush.
With that Karmazinas increased his chip stack, whilst Ruzicka moved back to around starting stack
In a three-bet pot, Artem Litvinov and Ian Simpson saw a flop of and the third player in the hand continued for 3,000. Simpson and Litvinov both called before the turn saw the Russian fire a bet of 9,575. Only Simpson called and then faced a push on the river.
Given the super aggressive table image of Litvinov, it was not uncommon to assume a bluff but this time Simpson was on the wrong end with his hero call on pocket kings. Litvinov had flopped the straight with and even had the added flush draw to score the third bustout in a row on his table.
Farid Jattin has been eliminated by Kevin MacPhee after flopping a straight and flush draw with on the check-raised flop of . On the turn, Jattin committed his last 10,600 with the strong draw while MacPhee eventually called with for top pair. A blank on the river sent Jattin to the rail and the pot to MacPhee.
On the heads up flop of with around 6,400 chips in the pot, a raising war broke out between Rasmus Agerskov and Vladas Burneikis. The latter had a bet of 11,000 in front of him and then Agerskov shoved to get a call by Burneikis.
Burneikis:
Agerskov:
The turn and river blanked and the straight for the Dane scooped the nice pot. Senh Ung and Marc Spangenberg have also been sent to the rail as well. Ung's flopped set of jacks was no good against the straight of Darryl Fish, Carmen Ebus was also in with pocket aces and stood no chance either.
Sven Magirius opened and then called the three-bet to 2,000 by Sergio Castelluccio before the duo checked the flop . On the turn, Magirius check-folded to a delayed continuation bet worth 1,750 and both players are now almost even in chips.
Daniel Chutrov limped in from the small blind and Rocco Palumbo made it 1,000 to go from the big blind with the Bulgarian coming along. On the flop both checked and Chutrov then check-raised the turn from 1,400 to 4,200. Palumbo didn't waste much time before tossing his cards into the muck, yet Chutrov has a long way to go before reaching the starting stack again.