Joao Simao and Renato Nowak battled until the early morning hours in the first €25,000 Super High Roller and the former finished second to Patrik Antonius, while the latter came third. Both are sharing the same table at the start along with early big stack Timothy Adams, who just defended his big blind against a raise by Nowak.
The flop was checked through and Adams check-called a bet of 50,000 on the turn. The river completed the board and Adams checked once more, and Nowak's bet of 127,000 forced a fold.
Nowak was involved in a three-bet with Simao and let go on the flop.
Felipe Ramos raised to 32,000 from the cutoff. Christoph Vogelsang three-bet to 100,000 on the button. Patrick Leonard shoved from the big blind. Ramos reluctantly folded after having taken some time to think about his options. Vogelsang pushed all in own chips in to call with the lower stack.
Christoph Vogelsang:
Patrick Leonard:
The board ran out - they both hit their sets but Vogelsang's was higher and he doubled up for the 408,000 he had behind.
"I had jacks." Ramos said. "You got the order wrong!" Ramos said to the dealer. "You're supposed to deals me the kings, him (Vogelsang) the queens, and him (Leonard) the jacks. You muddled the order up!"
Everyone at the table laughed, including the dealer herself.
Orpen Kisacikoglu got up from his new table again after having lost with against the of Christian Christner on the board. This was the second and last bullet for Kisacikoglu for today.
Thomer Pidun raised to 34,000 on the button and Niall Farrell defended his big blind. On a flop of , Farrell checked and called a bet of 43,000 by Pidun before the turn was checked through. On the river, it was Farrell that took the betting lead and made it 50,000 to go, Pidun folded.
On the three-way flop of , Leon Tsoukernik checked in the big blind and Stefan Schillhabel bet 40,000. Johannes Becker called from one seat over and the trio checked the turn. Tsoukernik's bet of 60,000 opn the river forced two folds.
Chi Zhang raised to 32,000 and Joao Simao three-bet to 100,000 in the very next seat, which Zhang called. On a flop of , Zhang folded and let go when facing a bet of 77,000 by the partypoker ambassador.
Runner-up in the €25,000 Super High Roller yesterday, partypoker ambassador Joao Simao, just doubled up against Jean-Noel Thorel with on the board. He's has doubled his starting stack now as he only sat down just before the break. Simao will have his sights set on the title and trophy now after falling at the final hurdle which was Patrik Antonius.
In a three-bet pot between Koray Aldemir and Philipp Zukernik, a pot of 200,000 emerged and the completed board showed . Aldemir bet 150,000 and Zukernik called to get shown ., Zukernik chopped it up with the and Aldemir remains just below the starting stack.
At the start of the day, the players have agreed to take a 10-minute break after the third and sixth level. This is the first one of the 10-minute breaks and the 21 remaining players have just left their tables.
Niall Farrell raised to 30,000 from the hijack and was called by Manig Loeser in the cutoff. Action folded to Steffen Sontheimer, in the big blind, who three-bet to 135,000. Both Farrell and Loeser called.
The flop came , Sontheimer checked, Farrell bet 155,000, Loeser folded and Sontheimer called.
The turn brought them the , Sontheimer checked once more. Farrell now bet 325,000, Sontheimer considered all his options and checked out Farrell's stack. In the end, he decided to shove. Farrell snap-called with a pretty similar stack.
Farrell had flopped a set of fours with the in his hand and was up against the of Sontheimer. The on the river didn't change much as Sontheimer was drawing dead. And Sontheimer was next to be sent to the rail or cashier in case he wants to reenter.