The race has tightened in the €10K opening event as just one player went bust during the last two levels and everyone left will come back from the second break with less than 40 big blinds.

The only person heading to the payout line was Rainer Kempe over the past couple of hours. He paid off Ryan Riess in a big pot wherein Riess defended his big blind with and made fives full on the board. He bet 110,000 on the turn and 245,000 on the river and Kempe was left under 15 big blinds.

Shortly thereafter, Kempe stuck his last 310,000 in with and could not overcome the held by Timothy Adams on his left.

Adams, meanwhile, doubled up Paul Newey again when ace-high couldn't hold versus . He got all that back and more when his ace-king binked a king on the river against Juan Pardo, though.

Pardo got his own lucky triple up when he shoved with threes over an Adams button open and Riess called then folded to a reship by Adams. Pardo hit a set against Adams' kings.

Here's how things stand going into 15,000/30,000/30,000.