From Average to Out in One Felsing Swoop. Almost.

Well that must have been a disappointment for Moritz Felsing. After manoeuvering his way up from just a few big blinds to a very workable stack, he lost virtually all of it in one fell swoop - and with aces, to boot.

The board read Tc Js 5s 4c when the chips went in, Felsing with his pocket rockets and Alexander Hochreiter holding 5c 5h for a set. The river was a bricky 6s, and Felsing stood up. I thought he was out, and he thought he was out - he'd made it all the way to the payout desk before he was called back. He had covered Hochreiter by just a few thousand, and had change.

Nevertheless, just a moment later and his T-9 proved insufficient against Erwin Hoffmann's pocket sixes, and he was busto for real this time.

Fourteen players remain.