Holz Bust Out Sets Up Last Two Tables

Su Hao is no longer in the running and departed midway through the level and Fedor Holz will not be adding anymore trophies until his haul this week either, busting at the hands of fellow countryman Dominik Nitsche in what turned out to be an interesting hand.

Pre-flop it was Nitsche who was the aggressor, opening the action with a raise from the cutoff with Holz making the call from the button. We picked up the action on the river but Salman Behbehani was kind enough to fill us in on the details and according to him Holz check-called Nitsche’s continuation bet on a flop before seizing the initiative on the the turn and leading for 60,000 when Nitsche checked.

Nitsche made the call and the river completed the hand. This is where it got interesting and is where we picked up the action with Nitsche leading out for 130,000 only to see Holz move all in for 327,000 in total.

Nitsche tanked long and hard before making the call and Holz rolled over . While this was no good it was not because Nitsche had an ace, but rather had rivered a set holding . Holz headed for the rail while Nitsche stacked up to over 1 million and play was briefly paused as the third table broke and the players were split between the two remaining tables.

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count
1	1	Paul Phua	Malaysia	200,000
1	2	Chan Wai Leong	Malaysia	275,000
1	3	Daniel Cates	USA	355,000
1	4	Dominik Nitsche	Germany	1,040,000
1	5	Peter Chan	Hong Kong	1,030,000
1	6	John Juanda	Indonesia	400,000
1	7	Salman Behbehani	USA	340,000
1	8	Devan Tang	Hong Kong	470,000

2	1	Manig Loeser	Germany	1,330,000
2	2	Steffen Sontheimer	Germany	760,000
2	3	Mikita Badziakouski	Belarus	1,700,000
2	4	Wang Qiang	China	2,300,000
2	5	Antonios Paschalidis	Greece	730,000
2	6	Richard Yong	Malaysia	800,000
2	7	Tony Cheng	Hong Kong	820,000
2	8	Gabe Patgorski	USA	520,000

Paul Phua busted shortly afterward and the players are now on a 20 minute dinner break.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Wang Qiang	2,300,000 -250,000	-250,000
Manig Loeser	1,330,000 260,000	260,000

Dominik Nitsche	1,040,000 520,000	520,000

Peter Chan	1,030,000 -70,000	-70,000
Tony Cheng	820,000 -10,000	-10,000
Richard Yong	800,000 200,000	200,000
Steffen Sontheimer	760,000 -50,000	-50,000
Antonios Paschalidis	730,000 120,000	120,000
Gabe Patgorski	520,000 40,000	40,000
Devan Tang	470,000 60,000	60,000
John Juanda	400,000

Daniel Cates	355,000 -165,000	-165,000
Salman Behbehani	340,000 -20,000	-20,000
Chan Wai Leong	275,000 -35,000	-35,000
Paul Phua	Eliminé