Antony Lellouche raised from the hijack seat to 450. The cutoff seat then three-bet to 1,150. Lellouche checked to see if his opponent had him covered, which he did, and then four-bet to 3,000. The player made the call.
The two players took a flop of and Lellouche checked. His opponent fired 4,600 and Lellouche called.
The turn added the to the board and both players checked.
The river was the and Lellouche fired just 2,000. His opponent looked like he didn't want to call, but tossed in the chips anyway. Lellouche showed the for a pair of aces and his opponent mucked.
Lellouche moved up to 30,000 chips after dropping some and is back on the starting stack.
We caught up with Priyan De Mel on the river of the board. There was 7,000 in the pot already and Priyan was on the button with a bet of 3,500 in front of him, contemplating what looked like a check-raise to 10,000 from his under-the-gun opponent. He contemplated for a long time before folding - and was rewarded by his opponent turning over an extremely, unnecessarily nutty for quads.
De Mel is down to a still above-average 39,000 after that.
The gentleman in the hijack opened for 1,100 and [Removed:197] made it 2,900 from the small blind. Mr. Hijack called, and they saw a flop.
After the excitement pre, the action rather disappointingly evaporated into almost nothing, as both players checked the flop and then the turn. [Removed:198] checked the river too and this time Mr. Hijack bet 3,500. [Removed:198] folded, and the pot went to the hijack.
[Removed:198] looked vaguely spooked after this, although this could just be a lack of coffee.
Editor of PokerNews UK & Europe magazine Ilya Gorodetskiy is in some trouble.
With around 5,000 in the pot by the river of the board, the young gentleman in the small blind bet out 3,725. Over in the hijack Gorodetskiy thought about it for some time before deciding against the call and quietly pushing his cards back to the dealer.
We're not sure how it happened, but we found Andrew Teng in the unenviable position of all in against aces. Teng got his last 11,000 in with against pocket rockets. The board brought the case ace but no miracle for Teng, and he's got the rest of the day off in Berlin.
We're not terribly sure what happened, but EPT Prague winner Jan Skampa will not be doing the double this time around as he has a grand total of zero chips at this time.
Stephane Albertini, who made the final table in Deauville a few weeks ago, is building a big stack early here in Berlin. He didn't have to work to hard to get all the chips in the middle when his pocket aces met the good fortune of a tablemate with kings. The board was king-free, and Albertini doubled to around 62,000.
Our very own Gloria Balding caught up with Jeff Sarwer on the first break. She pried into Sarwer's recent trip to Las Vegas where he played the NAPT Venetian and ventured around the city. Find out what he did by watching the video and his plans to return soon.
On a flop of , one player checked to Vicky Coren. She fired 2,500 and one player called before action moved to Arnaud Mattern on the button. He reraised to 6,125. The first player folded and then Coren followed suit. The next player called though.
The turn brought the and both remaining players checked. The river was the and both players checked again.
Arnaud's opponent tabled the and Mattern mucked, flashing the . He's still got a stack of 65,000 though and doing well.
The flop was between one player and Erich Kollmann. Marcel Luske has been watching from right behind Kollmann and was also here to view his friend chip up nicely in this hand. After the player checked, Kollmann fired 4,200. His opponent check-raised to 14,200. Kollmann made the call.
The turn was the and the player fired 10,000. Kollmann moved all in for 20,100 and his opponent almost immediately flung his hand into the muck.
That pot put a smile on both Kollmann and Luske's faces while Kollmann moved up to 64,000.