In one of the first hands coming back, Benjamin Benoit defended out of the blinds against a raise by Holger Bansner and the flop fell . Benoit check-called a bet of 400,000 and the appeared on the turn.
Benoit checked, Bansner moved all in and the Frenchman called for his last 2,470,000.
Benjamin Benoit:
Holger Bansner:
A blank on the river changed nothing anymore and Bansner dropped to the bottom of the counts.
Holger Bansner's raise with was called by Benjamin Benoit with and Benoit check-called a bet of 300,000 on the flop. Both checked the turn before Benoit led the river for 400,000.
In one of the last hands of the level, Timur Caglan raised and called the three-bet to 550,000 by Holger Bansner with . Bansner had and shoved the flop for 1,520,000 to claim the pot uncontested.
The last hands brought no further action and the players were sent into a 10-minute break.
Holger Bansner raised to 250,000 with the and Daniel Novak defended the big blind with . The flop of flop and the turn were checked. Novak bet the river for 360,000 and Bansner called to see the bad news.