Vogelsang Wins Last Hand Pre Break

Christoph Vogelsang raised his button with [KdJs] to 130,000, called by both blinds. Small blind Ben Heath, with [thjh], and big blind Timothy Adams, with [4c4h], checked the [Kh6dad] flop to Vogelsang, who bet 120,000, Heath alone calling. The turn paired the board with the [6s], no bet. The [4s] on

Badziakouski Still Ahead (Flopping Full Houses Doesn’t Hurt)

Mikita Badziakouski raised in the cutoff to 135,000 with [7c7s], called by small blind Ben Heath with [Adts], flopping sevens full of eights. He led out for 125,000 and Heath made the call. After the turn, the board stood [7h8s8h3d]. Badziakouski bet out 375,000 and the hand went no further.

Vogelsang Gives Up to Badziakouski River Pressure

A big river move with ace-high from Mikita Badziakouski has stopped Christoph Vogelsang from running away with the lead (the German having added to his stack with some creative play recently, including setting Ben Heath all in on the river of a [9xjx9xjxjx] board for 2,000,000 with [8c6h], Heath folding

Vogelsang Now in Lead After Winning 2 Million+ Pot from Heath

Ben Heath opened preflop with [ah9h] to 120,000, called by Christoph Vogelsang alone from the small blind with [Acqh]. A big flop for Vogelsang: [AsQs8h], which he checked, as did Heath. Vogelsang led out for 300,000 on the [5h] turn, which gave his opponent the nut flush draw to go

Chips Bunching Up

Ben Heath retains the lead, with Timothy Adams in second, but both of the shorter stacks have made progress upwards at the expense of the leaders and are virtually neck and neck going into the new level.

Worst. Route. Ever.

While Christoph Vogelsang might be utterly still and silent, scarf protectively draped over the part of his face not shaded by a baseball cap, during a hand he's involved in, he's chatting with the table in between winning small pots. It came to light that his trip here was anything

All Still Deep Enough for Post-Flop Shenanigans – Or Cagey Play

Ben Heath received a rare walk in the big blind from Mikita Badziakouski, who's been steadily chipping up throughout this level (though without any huge individual pots, and no further all-in and at-risk spots). For the first time after the action flurry that was the first level and a half, we're

Two-Tier Chip Counts Four-Handed

Blind on Blind Fireworks Hand Mateos the Chip Lead

It folded to small blind Adrian Mateos (fresh from losing a 400,000 pot to today's crusher so far, Christoph Vogelsang), who limped in with [QhQd]. Big blind Timothy Adams raised to 120,000 with [kdtd] and Mateos sprung the raise, making it 410,000. Adams made the call to see a flop

Ivan Leow Out in 6th Place ($600,000)

Christoph Vogelsang opened to 60,000 with [Qd7d], called by Ivan Leow on the button with [Ah7c]. The flop of [Qh3d7h] brought the former top two and the latter middle pair; with just 300,000 left, Leow jammed over Vogelsang's flop lead of 55,000 and was called immediately. Drawing thin, Leow saw