The registration has closed with a total of 61 entries and 38 players remain, spread across seven tables. From now on, all levels will last 40 minutes each.
At just after 3pm local time, level nine concluded and the 33 remaining players out of a field of 56 entries were sent into a scheduled 30-minute dinner break. When the action resumes at approximately 3.35pm local time, the late registration for this tournament will finish.
Julien Martini bounced back to a bigger stack while Andreas Bremer busted and Laszlo Bujtas joined the action right before the break.
An orange T-5,000 chip was in front of Jan Bendik in the small blind and Ian Bradley then jammed for 34,600 in the big blind. Bendik tanked for a while and made the call.
Ian Bradley:
Jan Bendik:
The board gave Bendik queens and tens to eliminate Bradley, who inquired if he can still re-enter during the break.
On a flop of , Fabian Scherle was all-in out of the big blind, facing Max Pescatori on the button and Nicolas Bokowski in the small blind. The two active players checked the turn and Bokowski check-folded the river.
Pescatori tabled the but Scherle had that beat with the for a straight.
Matthias Wieser and Jorge Ufano were eliminated but didn't re-enter yet. Mikkel Plum was also eliminated but jumped back in immediately while Didier Rabl entered for the first time.
Dario Alioto was at risk for a mere 14,300 and doubled through Marek Blasko to get back into contention.
Dario Alioto: / /
Fabian Scherle: / /
Alioto then went into three-way action with Fabian Scherle and Grzegorz Wyraz, the latter of which folded on sixth. Scherle called a bet on seventh and Alioto tabled the to win another large pot.
Artan Dedusha recently re-entered and quickly ran up a profit. He was building the next bigger pot in NLHE when he faced off against Dzmitry Urbanovich and Christopher Puetz. On the turn, Dedusha bet 30,000 on the button and his two opponents got out of the way.
Dimitrios Michailidis raised and then called a pot-sized three-bet to 14,400 by Anatoly Filatov from one seat over. The flop came and Michailidis bet the pot, Filatov called all-in.
Anatoly Filatov:
Dimitrios Michailidis:
Michailidis was already ahead and improved further on the turn and river to deal the final blow with the nut flush.
In the meanwhile, Espen Sandvik was eliminated for the second time and Borja Gross soared to the top of the leaderboard.
board gave Bendik queens and tens to eliminate Bradley, who inquired if he can still re-enter during the break.
, Fabian Scherle was all-in out of the big blind, facing Max Pescatori on the button and Nicolas Bokowski in the small blind. The two active players checked the 
turn and Bokowski check-folded the 
river.
but Scherle had that beat with the 
for a straight.
/ 
and Michailidis bet the pot, Filatov called all-in.
turn and 
