The 17 remaining players are on their last 20-minute break of the day. One more full level of 90-minutes will be played.
In the third level of the day, just two players hit the rail. Armin Mette went broke with ace-queen on a queen-nine-eight flop. Benjamin Pollak held jack-ten and knocked the Austrian out in 19th place.
Guillaume Diaz finished in 18th after failing to improve his king-jack versus Bastian Dohler's pocket tens and Frederik Jensen's pocket kings. Mette and Diaz took home €19,640 for their accomplishments.
The level also saw the rise of 2014 PCA Champion Dominik Panka, who moved up to second place after lingering at the bottom of the standings for most of the day. The other remaining EPT champion, Jensen, became the victim of Panka's rise and trended downwards, but survived an all in with queen-trey versus ten-nine to stay in.
The chipleader is still Ole Schemion at 1,6 million, but Panka is not far away with 1,5 million.
Right before the break, Martin Nikolov chipped up nicely without even going to a flop.
In two hands in a row, he reraised and took it down.
In the first hand, Louis Cartarius had opened to 35,000 and Benjamin Pollak made it 85,000 to go.
Nikolov decided to four-bet to 255,000 and both of his opponents folded. In the next hand, Cartarius came in raising again. He put in 35,000 but folded when Nikolov made it 100,000 to go.
Dmitry Yurasov raised to 35,000 on the button and Elie Saad defended his big blind. The flop came and Saad check-called a 35,000 bet. On the turn, Saad checked again. Yurasov had no intention of slowing down and fired 105,000, which Saad called.
Saad checked a third time on the river. Yurasov emptied the clip, this time coming up with a hefty bet of 240,000. Saad, one of the few amateurs left in the field, sunk back in his chair and counted out his stack. He called it off after a minute, but Yurasov showed him the bad news with for the nut flush.
Saad lost nearly half his stack in the hand and stood up from his chair to ease his emotions.
There was a lot of preflop action on the feature table. Bastian Dohler raised to 32,000 and Dominik Panka threw in a three-bet to 112,000.
It was folded to Frederik Jensen and the former EPT champion four-bet all in for 569,000 in total. Dohler got out of the way, but Panka made the call.
It was Panka who was all in for 505,000. Jensen had him barely covered.
Dominik Panka:
Frederik Jensen:
Jensen's squeeze did not get through, but it wasn't as bad as it could be. It was still a race.
The flop gave Panka a set, but Jensen had outs with a double belly buster straight draw. The turn did not help the Dane and neither did the on the river. Jensen was left with just four big blinds.
Short stack Yury Gulyy shoved three times in the past orbit. The Russian was sportsmanlike and showed his hand every time, to show he wasn't stealing: twice ace-jack and once ace-king.
and Saad check-called a 35,000 bet. On the 
turn, Saad checked again. Yurasov had no intention of slowing down and fired 105,000, which Saad called.
river. Yurasov emptied the clip, this time coming up with a hefty bet of 240,000. Saad, one of the few amateurs left in the field, sunk back in his chair and counted out his stack. He called it off after a minute, but Yurasov showed him the bad news with 
for the nut flush.
board. First for 40,000, then 78,000 and finally 238,000 on the river. 
for top pair, but Panka tabled 
for turned trips and took it down.
. 
flop gave Luo a pair of tens and he even improved on the 
turn. 
and this time Cartarius check-called an 85,000-bet. The 
for a rivered set and Pollak slammed his 
turn did not help the Dane and neither did the 
on the river. Jensen was left with just four big blinds.
