Soon after the start of the level, Pim van Holsteyn was ousted by Quan Zhou and the Chinese high roller then took on Shaun Deeb. The flop showed and Deeb was all in with the . Zhou turned over and the turn and river brought two blanks.
The re-entry massacre is nearing an end with all remaining 65 players out of 185 re-entries heading into a 15-minute break at the end of level 12. Only until the cards go back in the air, Pot-Limit Omaha aficionados can still jump into the action and the guaranteed prize pool of €200,000 has been almost doubled already.
Only a few minutes ago Yusuf Kurt had been the hero, now his stack had been reduced to zero. Kurt had been ahead preflop with , but Hokyiu Lee flopped top set and turned quads with to send Kurt to the cashier.
Ronald Keijzer avoided that after doubling through Nihad Kvrgic when they got it in after a flop, the Dutchman doubled for 44,600.
Ronald Keijzer:
Nihad Kvrgic:
The turn gave Keijzer some outs and he got there thanks to the river.
"Seven times aces, unbelievable," Kvrgic said in table chat.
Defending champion Lukas Zaskodny was eliminated by Ilya Bulychev at almost the same time and it remains to be seen if the Czech will re-enter until the start of level 13 in order to retain a chance at winning the event two years in a row.
In a battle button versus small blind, Shaun Deeb got his stack of around 75,000 in with the flop reading and he was called by Jan-Peter Jachtmann.
Shaun Deeb:
Jan-Peter Jachtmann:
"That's good," Jachtmann said as soon as he spotted the cards of the 2018 WSOP Player of the Year contender, and his kings held up on the turn and river. Deeb quickly headed to the cashier to re-enter and take another shot at running up a stack.
The cards were all but rushed away and Viliyan Petleshkov stood up from his chair after he ran out of chips in a three-way all in against Chin Wei Lim and Pim van Holsteyn.
Viliyan Petleshkov:
Chin Wei Lim:
Pim van Holsteyn:
It was van Holsteyn that had the best of it preflop, but as often in Pot-Limit Omaha that can change rather quickly. The board came and Lim more than doubled with his ten-high straight.
Ronald Keijzer has a mountain to climb in the last level of registration after losing the vast majority of his stack to Ilya Bulychev. They got it in after a flop of and Keijzer held for top two pair and a straight draw, while Bulychev had already flopped the straight with the .
Keijzer had some outs, but the turn and river were not among them.
Ognjen Sekularac and Martin Kabrhel re-entered once more.