British youngster Rupert Elder is out after pushing all-in for 110,000 preflop with and getting snap-called by Andreas Doletzki's which made the nuts on an board.
2011 PokerStars.net European Poker Tour Berlin
It looked as though Bolivar Palacios had made the opening raise to 13,500 and Timo Pf��tzenreuter had called behind before Kent Lundmark made it 24,600 to go. Back to Palacios , who now made it 66,500. Pf��tzenreuter folded, but after a bit of a tank, Lundmark made the call.
They saw a flop and Palacios now tanked up for a while before betting out 71,000. Another dwell-up from Lundmark, and then a shove for what looked like over 300,000.. Palacios shook his head and folded, and the EPT Barcelona champion picked up the chunky pot to put him up to around 530,000.
Former EPT champion Joao Barbosa is now grinding a short stack of just 47,500 after losing a big pot to Dara O'Kearney.
The Irishman was all-in with against Barbosa's and held on a board of to increase his own stack to 167,000.
Jean-Phillipe Raymond has eliminated Alek Samardzic with against the of the Croatian online qualifier. The board came and Raymond is up to 300,000.
Mathew Frankland has also been eliminated from the feature table, apparently losing out with against
Pocket kings are all over the place this level. Konstantin Puchkov played them by flat calling a raise preflop in the big blind, then check-raising a flop and getting paid 139,500 by .
Qualifier David Stogel had just 60,000 and got it in preflop with his kings vs. Mario Adinolfi's . These held but Adinolfi just chuckled (he has 610,000).
Finally Erich Kollmann was another preflop all-in cowboy-holder vs. the of [Removed:285]. The crowd was so intense around this particular table that his chip count will have to come separately, later.
Mayu Roca Uribe is out and Max Heinzelmann up to 400,000 after the following clinical encounter:
Roca:
Heinzelmann:
Board:
Last year's 16th place finisher Ilya Gorodetskiy has doubled up. We only caught the very very tail end of the hand, but it was enough to see that Gorodetskiy was holding on a board. He's still pretty short though.
Henrique Pinho opened to 15,000 preflop and Kevin Vandersmissen reraised all-in for about 60,000 from middle position. Passed back to the Portuguese Team Pro and he made the call.
"Please show a weak ace," said Vandersmissen turning over and Pinho obliged flipping .
But the board came and the Snowfest runner-up was eliminated. Pinho is up to about 560,000
A raising war between Tristan Clemencon (button) and Erich Kollmann (small blind) saw the latter all in and called, and prompting an excruciatingly slow dealing of the board on orders from the TV crew. Eventually Kollmann doubled up to 110,000, while Clemencon was left with less than 100,000.
Kollmann:
Clemencon:
Board:
Tristan Clemencon opened to 13,500 from the button and Miltiadis Kyriakides made it 31,500 in the big blind, the Frenchman moved all-in and was snap-called.
Clemencon:
Kyriakides: A pretty brave snap-call with
The board came and Clemecon was left wishing boards were six cards long.
Clemencon dropped to 132,000 while Kyriakides doubled up to 366,000.