Renato Nowak opened the action with a raise from the cutoff and then called the three-bet of Quirin Zech for 2,800 from one seat over. On the flop , Nowak check-called a bet worth 3,400 and then checked again the on the turn. Zech's second barrel was worth 10,200 and that proved to be enough to shut down his opponent.
Quirin Zech raised from under the gun and picked up two callers in Stipo Vladic and Patrik Antonius out of the big blind. The Finn led the flop for 3,000 and both opponents called before the appeared on the turn.
Antonius checked, Zech bet 9,500 and Vladic folded before Antonius check-raised all in for exactly 55,000. Zech snap-called and they turned them over:
Zech: for top set on the turn
Antonius: for flopped bottom set
The one outer to save the Finn didn't come, instead it was the on the river that completed the board.
Stipo Vladic tried a "new system" and didn't raise but limped from under the gun, putting out 16 yellow T-25 chips. Elliot Smith called from the small blind and Franco Cantarella checked his option in the big blind. On the flop both players in the blinds checked and Vladic bet 1,500.
Smith quickly folded and Cantarella waved away the hand of his opponent to see the stack or try to get some other information, grinning all over the face and saying "bluff!" while mucking his own cards. Vladic leaned over and then grinned back "bluff? no bluff,", showing the for flopped trips ... .
Quirin Zech was the initial raiser from under the gun and Stipo Vladic stayed in the hand to generate a pot of 6,000 until the river of a board. The duo had checked through the turn and Zech then took a stab at the pot by betting 3,000 on the river. Vladic quickly called and Zech mucked.
Stipo Vladic raised to 1,200 and Patrik Antonius three-bet to 3,200 from the button. Quirin Zech quickly glanced over to see the stack size of the Finn and then folded, Vladic called. On the flop, both players checked and the same applied for the on the turn.
The river filled up the board and Vladic bet 5,500. Antonius called and chopped the pot with , as Vladic had the equally strong
Elliot Smith raised to 1,000 from under the gun and Franco Cantarella called from one seat over. They checked down the flop and Smith then check-folded the turn, Cantarella showed him the . The German and the action on the table itself has slowed down after the spectacular all in situation not long ago.
On the feature table, Paul Newey opens the action for 900 chips with . Hans Olymp quickly three-bets to 2,400 from the cut-off, before the action folds around Newey who four-bets the action to 6,400.
After Olymp calls, Newey bets 8,500 chips on the flop of . Olymp three-bets to 25,000, which Newey calls. The came on the river, and Olymp went all-in for almost 47,000 chips. Newey mitigated the damage of having his aces cracked by mucking his hand, thus shipping the pot over to Olymp.
On the feature table, the action folded to Paul Newey who raised to 800 on the button with . Besim Hot called from the small blind with , while Aleksandar Tomovic paid to see a flop with .
Flop:
Newey slow-played after flopping a set when the action was folded over to him. The came on the turn giving Tomovic a flush draw. Once again, Newey behaved passively and just called after Tomovic led out for 1,700.
After Hot folded, it was heads-up to the river, when Tomovic completed his flush-draw when the . The damage could have been worse for Newey as Tomovic opted to slow-play his flush, and Newey checked behind.