With over half a million in the middle of the table, Anton Morgenstern checked the river of a board.
Looking at the 830,000 stack or so remaining that he had, Ben Wilinofsky moved all-in to cover the Russian making it possibly the biggest pot we've had so far in the tournament. Morgenstern tanked for a couple of minutes before eventually giving up.
Jean-Philippe Raymond is not way up high - quite the contrary, in fact, as he is newly busted.
Raymond raised from the hijack and Max Heinzelmann reraised in the big blind. Raymond shoved for around 200,000, Heinzelmann snap-called, and a few moments later they were shaking hands as Heinzelmann stacked up what now looks like 1.5 million, tying with Ben Wilinofsky for the chip lead.
Timo Pf��tzenreuter is out, making a last stand in the big blind with under 200,000 against cutoff raiser Darin Kramer. He held but unfortunately for him, Kramer was holding and called quick as a flash. The kicker ended up playing as the board ran down and Kramer began engaging in a bit of chat with his neighbour demonstrating the phenomenon of chirping chips.
The flop read when we got there and newly chipped up Ben Wilinofsky on the button was betting 38,000. Saar Wilf, who had checked the flop from the big blind, now called.
They saw a turn - the - and Wilf now bet out what looked like 50,000. Very swiftly, Wilinofsky folded. He must have picked up another pot since that huge pot against Wilf, as he was still at a roughly chip-leading 1.5 million after that. Wilf edged back up to around 700,000.
Igor Ivashkiv has been knocked out by Robin Ylitalo after running into the Swede's who dodged a bullet or two on a board of . So ends the adventures of our Kazakhstani player, Ylitalo is up to 800,000.
Ben Wilinofsky and Saar Wilf were playing a fairly large pot as the Canadian fired out 128,000 on the turn of the board. Wilf made a fairly quick call to see the river which seemed to be a blank.
Wilinofsky asked thought for a moment before making a bet of 318,000.
"Okaaaaaaaaay... I think you're value betting...You think ace queen is good?"
A short pause from Saar, "Ok, I call."
Wilinofsky turned over for two pair to win a substantial pot. He then picked up the next pot and now has about 1.5 million.
Anton Thotatinsson (sporting impressive full sleeve tattoos and hailing from Iceland, no less) has doubled up to just under 400,000 in a blind on blind preflop hand which pitted his sb against bb Jean-Philippe Raymond's . Raymond moved in when Thotatinsson raised to 41,000 and was immediately called by his dominating hand. He spiked two pair for good measure on a board, and leaves Raymond with just 122,000.
Kevin Stani, down to just 143,000, moved in on the button over a preflop raise (25,000) from Maximilian Heinzelmann. As soon as the number was said, Heinzelmann called and turned up . He was flipping - Stani held . The flop brought him confidence: , and although there was some hope for straight splits on the turn, the river put an end to Stani's Berlin adventure (giving him a prize of �15,000).
Alexander Smolin opened to 33,000 from the hijack, and to his immediate left Kent Lundmark shoved for just 83,000 in total. It folded back to Smolin who made the call, and they were on their backs.
Smolin:
Lundmark: dominating with
Board:
Lundmark was drawing dead by the turn, and the full house that Smolin made on the river was very pretty but basically irrelevant. Smolin is up to 700,000, Lundmark is gone, and Kevin Stani is now the only former EPT winner remaining in the field.