With one-minute remaining on the tournament clock before the end of the level there was a sudden burst of action that resulted in the elimination of Predrag Lekovic, who was down to just over 20 big blinds.

It was Fedor Holz who was the man to show Lekovic the door, making it 35,000 to go from the button and the Montenegrin moved all-in for roughly 320,000 in total and was quickly called.

Predrag Lekovic:

Fedor Holz:

Lekovic was the at risk player and found no help when the board ran out and he departed in third place for the equivalent of US$179,160 while Holz stacked up to 930,000.

The German extended this further playing his rush and snagging the chip lead just before both players went on a short ten-minute break, and is now sitting on a stack of 1,182,000 while Hao dropped to 868,000.