According to the screens, there are 244 players out of 286 entries remaining and they have been sent into their second 20-minute break of the day. Two further levels will be played until the 60-minute dinner break kicks in and the registration remains open until the start of level nine.
Marc MacDonnell is back for his third bullet in Event #1 and will be looking to turn around his fortunes. In the last hand before the break, MacDonnell was in the hijack and called a raise of 900 from the player to his right. The flop came and MacDonnell called a continuation bet of 700.
The turn was the and the player in early position led out for another 1,225. MacDonnell made the call and the completed the board. Facing another bet of 2,500 MacDonnell went into the tank for a couple of minutes. He finally threw out a raise to 8,000 and his opponent instantly tossed his cards away.
Paul Michaelis faced a raise to 1,000 by Arsenii Karmatckii and three-bet to 2,800 from two seats over. Felipe Ramos called from the small blind and Karmatckii glanced over at Michaelis' stack. "Thirteen in total," the German added and Karmatckii called. On the flop, Ramos and Karmatckii checked and just the Russian called a continuation bet for 2,800.
The appeared on the turn and Karmatckii checked once more, Michaelis moved all in for 7,475 and that forced a fold. Catalin Pop has moved back up to more than the starting stack on the same table as well, while Michaelis won the last hand of the level and Liang Feng sent his remaining 6,000 chips to Ramos.
Aylar Lie raised to 800 from the cutoff and the small blind pushed all in for 7,000. Lie eventually called and showed , while the small blind showed . "That's a gamble," the small blind said and Lie nodded while the board ran out .
Claudio Coelho started well but also just left the tournament area. The Portuguese got the remainder of his stack in with versus on the turn of a board to join the rail.
Three players went to the flop of with around 3,000 in the middle. The big blind checked and the player in early position bet 1,500. Alex Foxen called on the button and the big blind folded.
The turn was the and both players checked to the on the river. The action was checked to Foxen again and this time he put together a bet of 4,775. His opponent leaned forward in his chair and made the call. Foxen tabled for two pair and his opponent mucked his cards.
Christopher Back won't be back for Day 2 tomorrow as the Canadian was just spotted leaving the tournament area, having shipped over the remainder of his stack to the player in the four seat. Below are further assorted counts with several players approaching three times the starting stack.
Francisco Fernandez was moved tables early on and the new table is quite tough, including Sander van Wesemael and Josef Gulas. Fernandez' stack was quickly cut into half and he just limped from the button, the small blind filled up and van Wesemael in the big blind checked.
On the flop, the action checked to the Spaniard and he bet 700. Only the small blind called and the duo checked through the turn. After the river, the small blind overbet the pot for 6,500 and Fernandez, who had barely more than that behind, gave it plenty of consideration before folding.