On the turn of a board , Frank De Busscher tried to push Vladimir Miranik off a bet and moved all in only to see the Slovakian quickly call with . De Busscher only had and the river was a blank to deal a big blow to De Busscher's stack.
Hans-Jürgen Homner pushed from the button for 2.5 million with pocket nines and Sascha Minerva called with ace-jack from the small blind. Minerva found no help and was sent to the rail, where Hamdam Shakib was waiting at the payout desk already.
Tournament director Christian Scalzi has just called for dealers to shuffle up and deal.
The 11 players that finished last night are joined by three more late entrants. Registration is available until the end of the first break, at 4pm, and players are allowed as many bullets as they please, at €25,000 a go.
The prizepool is now up to a chunky €600,000. We'll have a payout structure for you when late registration closes.
Click & Collect qualifier Enrique was all in and at risk for just 750,000 and Rinaldo Aquino reshoved from one seat over to isolate successfully.
Enrique B.:
Rinaldo Aquino:
Both players shook hands and the board came to leave drawing dead. He left the table with a smile and "It was a pleasure."
Other recent casualties include Gregor Kampmann, Levent Efe and Henning W.. The latter three-bet all in for 3.3 million out of the big blind with pocket tens and initial raiser Lukasz Golczyk snap-called with kings. A ten on the flop was followed by a king on the turn and that was it for the Austrian.
Alexander Burkart opened for 325,000 from under the gun and picked up a call from Philipp Zukernik and the player in the big blind.
The flop was and checked to the raiser, Burkart continued for 375,000 and got two callers.
The turn was the and the rest of Burkart’s chips went in the middle. Zukernik called and the big blind folded.
Zukernik quickly turned over his and it was left to Burkart to nod his acknowledgement of the cooler as he showed his .
The river card rounded off the board and Burkart’s tournament.
Burkart had won his seat at the partypoker German Poker Championships thanks to a free “Click & Collect” ticket on his online account and he was walking away €3,000 richer and with a bag full of memories.
“Trapping, trapping, trapping,” the player in the big blind said of Zukernik’s play.
Victor Tyurin's button raise was called by The Talk in the small blind and the big blind. Only The Talk check-called a bet of 625,000 on the turn and the river completed the board. The Talk checked and Tyurin pushed all in with the superior stack.
The Talk eventually called for 3,350,000 with for two pair and Tyurin was caught with the fingers in the cookie har, holding only .
One table over, Ngoc Minh Hoang check-called a bet of 975,000 by Gerald Karlic on the turn before the river was checked. Karlic's won the pot, but he pointed to Martin Wrulich in the one seat "He got all my chips."
Ondrej Mar raised to 325,000 and called the shove of short stack Mohamed Harrouchy for 1,875,000 with . Harrouchy was all in and at risk with the and got there on a board of .
Soon after, Mar was spotted at the payout desk along with Levent Efe, and Nico Heinreich followed right after.
Philipp Gruissem opened the action from under the gun and one by one the other players checked their cards in the hope of having something to play back at the aggressive big stacked moustachioed German poker machine.
One by one they folded until it got to Simon Trumper in the big blind who called.
The flop was .
Trumper checked and Gruissem continued for 300,000. “You got any of that?” Trumper asked as he called.
The turn was the and both players checked.
On the river it was Trumper who took the betting lead, Gruissem raised and then called when Trumper moved all in.
Gruissem did indeed have some of that, in the end he had all of it. He turned over his with an apologetic air and shook Trumper’s hand before adding the chips to his stack.
Trumper was required to show his losing .
Trumper reflected of how the hand went down, “If the jack didn’t come he doesn’t get paid.”