Perez raises from the button and Torsten Haase calls from the small blind. The flop comes , Haase checks, Perez bets 100k, Haase check-raises to 300k and Perez folds. Haase tells Perez, "If you would have pushed, I would call immediately."
Andreas G��l��nay raises to 80k, Claudio Rinaldi goes all-in for 480k, and G��l��nay calls showing while Rinaldi shows . The board comes , giving Rinaldi a flush draw, but the comes on river and Claudio Rinaldi is eliminated in fifth place earning 193,000 Euros. Andreas is our new chip leader on 1,289,000.
After the one-hour dinner break, the five players have now returned to wrap up this final table. The blinds have gone up to 15,000/30,000 with a 3,000 ante. Chip counts, betting structure and payouts can be found on the right side of this page.
Diego Perez raises pre-flop to 60k, all the other players fold, and they are off to have dinner. We will be back at approximately 7:55 local time. This is the chip count for the five remaining players at the dinner break:
Michael "Timex" McDonald 1,179,000
Torsten Haase 998,000
Andreas G��l��nay 804,000
Diego Perez 654,000
Claudio Rinaldi 480,000
McDonald raises pre-flop with , Strassmann re-raises with , McDonald goes all-in and Strassmann calls. The board comes and Michael "Timex" McDonald eliminates Johanes Strassmann, who finishes sixth in this year's PokerStars EPT German Open, receiving �152,000. Timex is back in the lead with 1,205,000 in chips.
After being very quiet for a while, Rinaldi moved all in on a G��l��nay pre-flop raise. When G��l��nay folded, Rinaldi showed his and climbed back to 466k.
In the following hand G��l��nay raised again, Rinaldi again went all in and G��l��nay was clearly stressed by Rinaldi's play. Was he bluffing again or did he have a hand? Someone called the clock on Gul��nay, who finally folded in disgust, and this time Rinaldi doesn't reveal his hand. G��l��nay is down to 764k and Rinaldi is up to 566k.
Perez raises to 50k pre-flop, Strassmann re-raises to 140k. After one minute in the tank, Perez goes all in for another 420k and Strassmann finally folds. After falling behind, Perez decided to make a stand. He is now back to 660k. Strassmann has now dropped down to 537k.
Perez raises from the button pre-flop, G��l��nay re-raises to 120k and Perez calls from the button. The flop comes , G��l��nay bets out 200k and Perez folds. G��l��nay has been playing the best poker so far today and is now second in chips at 947k, not far behind chip leader Torsten Haase who is now at 962k.