Deniz Maska has been all in for the last 11,000 and flipped for his tournament life with against the of Marko Mikovic. The Serbian got there on a board of and sent Maska to the rail.
"if I raise so much, I normally always have to call. I know I am behind, but I like to play," Dag Palovic added. On the flop, 24,000 chips were pulled into the middle of the table and Vladimir Burstein was all in for another 15,100 chips. Palovic eventually called with a straight draw:
Palovic:
Burstein:
Two outs for the the Slovakian were gone, but he got there thanks to the turn and river to boost his stack further.
It is unclear how many chips Michael Hierl shoved for, but his stack went in preflop with the and table big stack Amir Mozaffarian snap-called with . The board ran out and the German grabbed even more chips to become the first player on six digits.
The seat that formerly belonged to Markus Ganglbauer is vacated once again and the player that had his cracked walked away with his media card. All that is known is a board of , which gave table neighbor Dariusz Beres a full house with to score the knockout.
Emmanouil Saloustros barely stopped celebrating to rub it in for his opponent Yehuda Cohen. The latter had doubled up not long ago, but now lost a decent chunk of the stack again in a pot of more than 30,000 chips. Saloustros had flopped top pair with on a board of , the cards of Cohen were already in the muck.
Zeljko Jovanovic in seat one said he had held pocket kings and the rest of the table joked how "crazy" the action and emotions were.
After a limp and a min-raise to 600 by Jorgen Jagd, Amir Mozaffarian three-bet to 1,925 out of the big blind. Only Jagd called and they saw a flop of . The German continued and was called before the fell on the turn. Mozaffarian bet 4,500 and was called once again before the river completed a straight on the board.
Mozaffarian moved all in and Jagd snap-called with only to see his opponent turn over for the better straight. Two hands later, the hijack opened to 1,100 and the cutoff called. Mozaffarian three-bet to 4,000 and the big blind then squeezed to 11,000. Only Mozaffarian called and the duo checked down the board . The big blind showed for air, the German claimed the pot with .
Dag Palovic has just eliminated Radostin Todovichin in a three-way pot with more than 20,000 chips in the middle. On the turn, Todovichin faced a bet worth 8,000 by Palovic and jammed for 11,125. Florian Baum got out of the way and Palovic then quickly called.
Palovic:
Todovichin:
"Oh wow, nice hand," Palovic said to his opponent before the fell on the river. The Slovakian had improved to a full house and claimed a big pot, also pumping his fist in triumph.
With the board reading , Yehuda „Chikkita Banana“ Cohen moved the remainder of his stack in and his opponent Zeljko Jovanovic called the 16,000 with . Cohen flipped over for turned trips and that boosted his stack way up.
Florian Baum called two bets on the turn for 3,000 and another 5,500 on the river while sitting on the button. His opponent in the hijack turned over and then shook his head when Baum claimed the pot with . The German is up to twice the starting stack.