After a three-bet out of the small blind, Paul Carr continued for 135,000 on the flop and his sole remaining opponent Matous Houzivek called. The fell on the turn and Carr checked, Houzivek bet 180,000 and was called.
The duo checked again the river and Carr turned over to claim the pot. Carr has almost two times the average and the other bigger stack at the table is Joris Ruys.
Christian Nilles became a big stack on his table when flat-calling a shove for 270,000 before another player behind him reshoved for 550,000. Nilles snapped it off with aces and bested the two opponents, who held pocket nines and pocket tens.
What followed was rather unfortunate for the German, who already faced Stephen Chidwick, Stefan Schillhabel and Tamer Kamel on that table. Martin Kabrhel took the first vacated seat, and the other was filled by Igor Kurganov.
Kurganov and Kabrhel got into a hand and the latter started his usual table talk, while Kurganov played the game. "Nice hair like usual Igor. How do you want to play this heads up?" Kabrhel asked after he raised to 45,000 and was called by Kurganov on the button.
"I want to win a big pot," the Russian replied and the flop fell . Kabrhel checked, Kurganov bet 42,000 and Kabrhel folded with the words "you got it." Kurganov smiled and said "I got half of what I wanted" and this table will likely provide plenty of fireworks.
With 325,000 in the pot Will Kassouf faced a 230,000 bet from opponent Michael Cummings on a board. Kassouf was unusually quiet while thinking but started talking about a minute into his decision.
"Do you have the eight? Did you really hit your gutshot? I think you got lucky on the turn", Kassouf said and folded his hand.
"No, you got lucky on the turn", Cummings replied while flashing the for the flopped straight.
"Ya, I really wanted to call down with nine-high like a boss", Kassouf shot back, which got a few laughs around the table though nobody really seemed to understand what he was talking about.
Kassouf is still doing fine, though, with his stack close to two million.
Vahid Amirzahari bet out 45,000 on a flop and Partypoker Ambassador Boris Becker made the call. Both players checked the turn before Amirzahari went for an overbet on the river. With around 165,000 in the pot Amirzahari went with a bet of a cool quarter of a million, but didn't get quite the reaction he was hoping for as Becker relatively quickly made the call.
Amirzahari slowly turned over the prompting Becker to flash for a rivered top pair. That was enough to drag the pot, and the former number one tennis player in the world chipped up to almost 1,5 million chips.
Peter Ryder raised and picked up the call by Lee Egan from one seat over in the cutoff. On the flop, both players checked and Ryder then bet the turn for 42,000. Egan called and then faced a second bet worth 75,000 after the river. That proved to be too much, and the Irishman folded.
Ryder boosted his stack to around 1.1m, while Egan is well above average.
Dominik Nitsche raised it up to 35,000, Sebastian Skurzynski made the call and Michal Danka made it 125,000 to go two seats behind him. Back on Nitsche he four-bet to 280,000, Skurzynski folded and soon after Danka's hand found the muck as well.
Nitsche took one last peak at his hand before letting it go, prompting a comment from Phil Mighall.
"Why do you only show yourself? Show one, show all", he said with a grin, but the dealer didn't quite agree on that interpretation of the rule, and Nitsche's hand remained a mystery.
Felipe Ramos lost a big pot with ace-king versus ace-queen to get rather short while Govert Metaal was down to 700,000 and then more than doubled with pocket aces versus pocket kings. Among the biggest stacks are Steve O'Dwyer and Florian Duta.