Aaron Gustavson raised to 60,000 but folds when Martin Gudvangen makes it 176,000.
Josef Samanek raised to 65,000 on the button but gives up to Ivo Donev's raise to 200,000 in the big blind.
Peter Eastgate raised to 66,000 and Aaron Gustavson made it 150,000. Eastgate called before the pair checked down the board to river where Gustavson took it down with a 160,000 bet.
Josef Samanek raised to 65,000, Aaron Gustavson called and Michael Berry called in the big blind.
The flop was and Berry fired out 50,000, Samanek called and Gustavson folded. Both checked the turn before Berry fired 50,000 again on the river. Gustavson raised to 150,000 and Berry quickly called. The Englishman mucked though, when Gustavson showed
Dominic Cullen raised to 70,000 in the cutoff, and Peter Eastgate shoved from the button. Over to Annette Obrestad in the small blind, who re-shove. A million railers appeared out of the ether to witness it. Cullen looked briefly very unhappy under the hood of his anorak, and then folded. On their A-list backs.
Eatgate:
Obrestad:
Board:
Eastgate doubled to over 1 million, while Obrestad was crippled to 230,000.
She quietly anted away for a few hands before moving all in in early position. Ivo Donev made the call.
Obrestad:
Donev:
Board:
We are down to 16 players, who are currently being shuffled around in the redraw for the last two tables.
Dominic Cullen raised to 90,000 from the small blind and Kevin Schaffel reraised all-in. A speedy call followed, although Thomas announced Dominic as Peter.
Raymond Wu was spotted seated at the feature table, blithely chatting away on his phone. He was told that he couldn't do that and was made to turn it off. Bad Raymond!
Early second level action has been limited, with very few hands on the non-feature tables getting as far as a flop.
One curious hand that did see a flop, however, was a blind on blind confrontation between Rodrigo Caprioli (small blind) and Martin Gudvangen (big). They saw a flop, to be precise, and Caprioli checked. Gudvangen bet an experimental-looking 41,000, but Caprioli now made it 130,000. Back to Gudvangen, who thought about it briefly before reraising to 310,000. Caprioli folded, and the pot was his.