Dominik's Queens Dominate Tamm, 28 Left
At Level 17 came to a close, Dominik Nitsche opened with a raise to 11,000 from the cutoff, then Erik Tamm reraised to 28,000 from the big blind. Nitsche leaned forward to take a look across the table to see how much Tamm had left -- about 140,000 more -- then said he was all in. Tamm quickly called, turning over 
. Nitsche flipped his cards over to show 
.
The community cards came 
, and Tamm goes out in 29th place.
It's been a wild afternoon and early evening for Nitsche. Down to less than 5,000 after a couple of hours of play today and dead last out of the 60 or so players then remaining, he will go to the dinner break with a stack of more than 750,000, now challenging Sebastian Homann for the tourney's chip lead.