Welcome to the table Mr Martins…

The total number of entrants has climbed to 22 with the late arrival of Portugal’s Antonio Martins, though the number of tables has shrunk from three to two as just 16 of these players remain in the running.

However, with the format offering unlimited Day 1 re-entries there is nothing, aside from bankroll management concerns, to stop any of the bust outs from giving it a second go.

Martins wasted no time getting into the swing of things, becoming involved in a multi-way pot not long after taking his seat. It was Germany’s Kilian Loeffler who was the initial aggressor in this particular hand, making it 900 to go from under-the-gun plus one and receiving zero respect for his early position raise with Yue Feng (button), Thin Tin Duong (small blind) and Martins (big blind) all making the call to take the action four-way to a flop of .

No one fancied the flop and the action was checked around, with Martins opening for 1,400 on the turn.
Loeffler made the call and both Feng and Duong bowed out to take the action heads-up to the river.

The arrival of paint did not slow Martins and he fired for 1,900, only to see Loeffler quickly re-raise to 7,000 in total. This sent the Portuguese player into the think tank for a good few minutes, before he grudgingly slid in the call.

Loeffler rolled over for a rivered two-pair, but this was not enough to best Martins’ rivered straight and he scooped the pot to climb to 27,500 while Loeffler dropped to 6,500.