There are just 72 players remaining as Martin Joseph Kus, Koen de Weerd, Simon Trumper and Camilla Reventlow have been eliminated.
Reventlow was all in with ace-queen and Josef Snejberg looked her up with . The board came and Reventlow was drawing dead on the turn already.
Philipp Zukernik was more fortunate in a flip against Ivo Donev. All in for just 1,300,000, Zukernik flipped with versus and was down to two outs after the flop. The turn was a blank, but the river came to the rescue. Donev let out a loud "nooo" and paid off the Canadian.
A short-stacked Fabian Wahlers was all in for 1,500,000 and Marko Simic called in the cutoff. Out of the small blind, Matthias De Meulder reshoved and the action was back on Simic, who immediately sighed. "How much?" he asked and De Meulder's stack was counted to be for 3,875,000 in total. Simic eventually called to put two players at risk.
Fabian Wahlers:
Matthias De Meulder:
Marko Simic:
The flop of improved Wahlers, while Simic said "it's okay," the bigger side pot was still in his favor. De Meulder asked for an ace once the appeared on the turn and Wahlers requested a queen. One wish was granted, as the river improved De Meulder to the best hand and eliminate Wahlers. "Every tournament," Simic sighed even more, having forfeited almost half of his stack.
Sandro Pitzanti opened the action from the cut-off for 350,000 and Philipp Gruissem called from the small blind. Action was Andreas Aulike and he gave Pitzanti a grin and started to say something but was reminded that he wasn’t allowed to talk in that spot. Aulike was had survived an all in earlier but was still short and he decided to fold and look for a better spot.
It was heads-up to a flop of and Gruissem check-called a 450,000 bet from Pitzanti.
The turn was the and Gruissem checked again. Pitzanti moved all in and Gruissem gave a lopsided smile, folded and tapped the table to acknowledge the move.
Josef Gulas lost a big pot to Marek Blasko, who took over the chip lead ahead of the rising Anatoly Filatov and Jonathan Wong.
Gulas then got his short stack in and was called by Hamdam Shakib and Andreas Ahrer, who checked down the board of . Gulas showed for trips kings and Ahrer had , Shakib the .
Two players with nicknames, JeffersonMC and eMKey, were less fortunate and joined the rail.
Matthias De Meulder called the shove of eMKey got 655,000 with the and the Slovakian had . The board of delivered two pair and neither pocket played, however, the five of eMKey ensured the double for Slovakian with five-high.
. The board came 
and Reventlow was drawing dead on the turn already.
versus 
and was down to two outs after the 
flop. The 
turn was a blank, but the 
improved Wahlers, while Simic said "it's okay," the bigger side pot was still in his favor. De Meulder asked for an ace once the 
appeared on the turn and Wahlers requested a queen. One wish was granted, as the 
river improved De Meulder to the best hand and eliminate Wahlers. "Every tournament," Simic sighed even more, having forfeited almost half of his stack.
and Gruissem check-called a 450,000 bet from Pitzanti.
. Gulas showed 
for trips kings and Ahrer had 
and the small blind only showed 
. However, the board came 
and was left with 900,000.
of Vladimir Minarik right after on a board of 
, clapping after the river card and claiming "I am here to stay."
. The board came 
