On a flop, McDonald and Perez check. The turn is , McDonald bets 70k and Perez calls. The river is , McDonald bets 140k into a 252k pot and Diego calls. Michael "Timex" McDonald shows for top two pair and wins the 530k pot, climbing back to 714k. Perez falls back to 641k.
Andreas Gülünay calls a pre-flop raise from Michael McDonald and the flop comes ; both players check. The turn is , McDonald checks again, Gülünay bets out and gets a call. The river comes , McDonald checks, Gülünay goes all-in and McDonald eventually folds, falling back to 466k. Gülünay comes back and is now at 709k.
Andreas Gülünay bets 120k into a flop, Torsten Haase goes all in and Gülünay eventually folds. Gülünay is now down to 408k and Haase increases his stack to 1,008,000.
Two and a half hours into the final day, there are six players remaining in the PokerStars EPT German Open. Torsten Haase is in the lead for the first time after winning a couple of pots without showdowns. These are the seatings and chip counts at the end of level 22:
1: Mike McDonald 528,000
2: Diego Perez 851,000
4: Johannes Strassmann 825,000
6: Andreas Gülünay 643,000
7: Torsten Haase 863,000
8. Claudio Rinaldi 383,000
Andreas Gülünay limps from the small blind, Haase checks his option and Andreas bets out on a flop. Haase tries to find some kind of weakness in Gülünay, but he eventually folds as Gülünay looks strong.
Andreas Gülünay raised pre-flop, Torsten Haase re-raised and Gülünay called. The flop came , Torsten went all in and Andreas folded. Torsten won the pot and continues to increase his stack.
In the next hand Torsten again raised to 42k, Michael McDonald re-raised to 128k, Haase went all in and wins another pot as Timex folded.
Perez raised to 40k pre-flop from the cut-off, Johannes Strassmann re-raised from the button to 130k, and Perez moved all in. Strassmann said, "This time I can't call you, but the next time I will very, very probably call you," as he mucked his hand. Perez showed an ace and raked the pot.