We joined a three-way raised pot just as the dealer was running out a flop of . First to act from the small blind, Johannes Strassmann made a leading bet of 16,100. That was enough to get the big blind out of the way, but Pierre Neuville was not so quickly folded. He asked for a count on his opponent's stack, and Strassmann had 34,000 behind. With that, Neuville plunked a big stack of chips into the pot, and Strassmann said, "I call. I call all in."
He turned over , and Neuville showed top two with . It was still a bit of a sweat for the at-risk Team PokerStars Pro, but the turn and river came safe-safe ( and ).
Just as the night is winding down, Strassmann has earned himself an eleventh-hour double up back over 100,000. Neuville has slipped down under 200,000 after that loss.