Ireland’s David Lappin has got an early double up getting in all in preflop with versus . The board ran out and gained some decent wriggle room ahead of the looming bubble.
Philippe Souki had moved all in on one of his first hands for around 60,000 and hadn’t found any callers. An orbit later he was all in again and this time Marcelo Ramos Da Fonseca looked him up with . Souki tabled and one of the many flips we will see today was underway.
The board ran out and Da Fonseca handed over the chips with a sigh.
On the very next hand Souki opened for 6,500 from early position and Grzegorz Wyraz, sat to his left, didn’t seem convinced that he could have two big hands in a row and decided to see how much he wanted to hang on to those newly won chips. Wyraz three-bet to 14,500 and everyone else got out of the way. Souki cut out some more chips and four-bet to 31,500. Wyraz quietly released his hand, message received.
Frenchman Ludovic Riehl opened the button with a raise to 6,500, and Vladimir Dobrovolskii pushed from the big blind for 60,300 total. Riehl thought about it for a bit, and called eventually.
Dobrovolskii:
Riehl:
Riehl was behind, and was already glancing at the amount of chips he would have to forfeit, but he got some help on the flop: . With a disappointed face Dobrovolskii got up from his chair, and he underwent the agony of missing the turn () and river () with his tournament life at risk.
In the first hand of the day, Day 1a chip leader Michael Mizrachi has been eliminated. He started out on the secondary feature table with a stack of just over 40,000, and he found himself all in against Emil Mattsson from Sweden who had just a little more.
Mizrachi had in the cut off, and found himself all in before the flop against Mattsson with in middle position.
Things were looking good for Mizrachi, and he was on the verge of doubling up, till a popped up on the river.
Mizrachi had an amazing first day, but things weren't going to well yesterday on Day 2. Remko Rinkema talked to him about his playing style in the second break:
Game over for Yann Dion, the damage was done when he lost with to Frei Dilling's all in preflop with the board coming . Dion was crippled as a result and got knocked out a few hands later.
Scott Seiver wasn’t happy with the amount of time Andreas Samuelsson was taking to make decisions preflop. Never one to sit back if something didn’t please him Seiver decided to make his feelings known.
“You don’t have to take thirty seconds every time.” Seiver told him.
“I’m thinking. I’m not doing it for no reason.” Samuelson defended himself. Seiver claimed it was unfair on the short stacks and on the next hand Samuelson insta-mucked his hand when action was on him.
Here comes the money! Well, maybe not until the second or third level today. Just 292 players remain, but only 239 players will get paid a minimum of €8,050.
Five levels are planned for the day as the Main Event continues and with the High Roller starting tomorrow (and also being covered on Pokernews) many of the players will be looking to go big or go home (or go into the High Roller). With a record-breaking field of 1,496, there is a mouth-watering €1,261,000 for the winner but that won't be decided until Wednesday.
Before then, we've got the bubble to get through, which as mentioned, should happen in level 16 or 17.
Czech player Vojtech Ruzicka, who won the €10,000 High Roller in Deauville back in Season 9, is the current chip leader with 621,100 with Nima Ahrary (519,600) and former EPT London winner Martin Finger (502,300) the only other players over the half million mark.
Team PokerStars Pros Jan Heitmann (203,000) and Andre Akkari (55,500) are still alive while sponsored pros Dominik Panka (139,500) and Thor Hansen (102,600) also remain.
Play will begin at 12 p.m. local time with live streaming also available on EPT Live, table 12 has been chosen as the first feature table. Stay here as we bring you all the latest news as the biggest ever EPT on European soil continues!
flop, both Pratik Ghatge in middle position, and Dmitry Yurasov on the button both checked.
fell on the turn, and Ghatge check called a 17,000 bet from his Russian opponent.
completed the board and Ghatge bet out 30,000. Yurasov made the call, but mucked as Ghatge showed 
for a rivered top pair.
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. The board ran out 
and gained some decent wriggle room ahead of the looming bubble.
. Souki tabled 
and Da Fonseca handed over the chips with a sigh.
. With a disappointed face Dobrovolskii got up from his chair, and he underwent the agony of missing the turn (
) and river (
) with his tournament life at risk.
flop, Markus Garberg had bet 13,200 before Adam Levy put in a committing raise. Garberg tanked briefly before moving all in and Levy called.
and Garberg flipped 
but the turn was the 
to Frei Dilling's 
all in preflop with the board coming 
. Dion was crippled as a result and got knocked out a few hands later.
