Joao Simao raised to 550,00 from the cutoff. Dietrich Fast quickly folded and next up was Stefan Schillhabel in the small blind. He couldn't see Simao's stack and asked to see it. Simao showed his stack and Schillhabel decided to shove. Renato Nowak got out of the way and Simao was up for a decision. He thought it all through and then decided to call for the 3,875,000 he had behind.
Joao Simao:
Stefan Schillhabel:
The board ran out - Simao hit his jack on the flop and completed the picture with the ace on the river to finish the hand with two pair, aces and jacks, for the double-up.
Renato Nowak raised to 500,000 and Joao Simao defended his big blind. On a flop of , Simao checked and called a bet of 600,000 by Nowak. The duo checked through the turn and Simao also checked the river. Nowak bet 900,000 and Simao asked to see his stack, which revealed another 3.3 million behind for Nowak.
Simao took half a minute of consideration and called, but quickly mucked when Nowak turned over for a straight as winning hand.
Patrik Antonius raised to 400,000 and Stefan Schillhabel called out of the big blind. There was no betting action on the board and Schillhabel's won the pot.
Steve O'Dwyer made it 450,000 to go and Schillhabel called from the small blind, Renato Nowak filled up out of the big blind. The flop was chedked to O'Dwyer and he continued for 625,000. Schillhabel check-raised to 1.775 million to force out Nowak, but O'Dwyer was having none of it and moved all in. Schillhabel folded and was shown the .
The profit of O'Dwyer was cut down by some in a battle of the blinds against partypoker ambassador Joao Simao soon after when the duo eventually checked down the river of a board of . O'Dwyer turned over and Simao had the for the superior hand.
- Patrik Antonius raised to 450,000 from the cutoff and Steve O'Dwyer shoved all in from the button. Everyone else folded and Antonius asked for a count. O'Dwyer counted it out for Antonius and he saw it was for 4,980,000. Antonius though for a bit and then folded.
- Renato Nowak raised to 400,000 from the under-the-gun position and action folded to Dietrich Fast in the small blind. Fast three-bet to 2,100,00 and Nowak folded. "Next time!" Nowak said to Fast.
- Joao Simao raised to 400,000 from under-the-gun and only Nowak called from the button. The flop came , Simao bet 450,000 and Nowak folded.
- Antonius raised to 450,000 from the button and was called by Simao in the big blind. The flop brought them the , Simao check-folded to the 300,000 bet of Antonius.
- Antonius raised to 400,000 from the cutoff, O'Dwyer shoved and Antonius couldn't contain a grin. He tried to hide it by taking a sip from his drink but then he open-folded . It seemed that there was a mark on the and the floor was asked for a new deck.
Renato Nowak limped in from the hijack and Dominik Nitsche moved all in for 3.43 million in the cutoff. Once Nowak was to act again, he asked for a count and let one minute pass before making the call.
Dominik Nitsche:
Renato Nowak:
The board of provided no help for Nitsche and he was eliminated in 7th place for €60,000. Nowak celebrated his "good call" as per table chat and there was no sign of bagging and tagging, thus the tournament is likely playing down to a winner tonight.
Patrik Antonius defended his big blind against an under-the-gun raise by Steve O'Dwyer and check-called a bet of 200,000 on the flop. On the turn, Antonius made it 700,000 to go and O'Dwyer called before the Irishman faced a bet of 2.1 million on the river. That was enough to force a fold from O'Dwyer before Antonius lost most of the profit when trying to bluff Renato Nowak with versus on an ace-high board.
- Simao hit his jack on the flop and completed the picture with the ace on the river to finish the hand with two pair, aces and jacks, for the double-up.
turn and Simao also checked the 
river. Nowak bet 900,000 and Simao asked to see his stack, which revealed another 3.3 million behind for Nowak.
for a straight as winning hand.
, Schillhabel bet 200,000 and Nowak called.
on the river. Schillhabel checked, Nowak bet 300,000.
for the pot.
board and Schillhabel's 
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and Simao had the 
. It seemed that there was a mark on the 
provided no help for Nitsche and he was eliminated in 7th place for €60,000. Nowak celebrated his "good call" as per table chat and there was no sign of bagging and tagging, thus the tournament is likely playing down to a winner tonight.
on an ace-high board.