With around 10,000 in the pot by the river of the board, the player out of position checked. Liz Lieu bet 5,000 and after a few moments spent eyeing her up suspiciously, her opponent called - only to muck when Lieu turned over for a flush.
Two levels come and go so quickly these days. That's 120 minutes of poker in the books, and the players are being rewarded with 15 minutes to loiter about the hallways and converse around the bars.
It's an EPT, and that means it's time to chat with Luca Pagano! This event is Luca's baby to some extent, representing the Grand Final of his own Italian Poker Tour. Check out what Luca had to say about the IPT and his hopes for this event:
We're telling you, this field is huge. And stacked with big names.
We've just spotted Jake Cody for the first time; the winner of EPT Deauville is doing a remarkably good job obscuring himself under his hoodie.
We've also found Jeff Sarwer, sitting with Marion Nedellec. Not sure how we missed him; we've been staring at that table for about two hours now.
We've also recently discovered Ramzi Jelassi, Amnon Filippi, and Benny Spindler, and Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden has decided to join in the fun as well.
Yesterday, we noticed that most of the players from other poker sites are unpatched and unbranded here in San Remo. Erick Lindgren was the first one that caught our eye, sitting in a light blue Coors T-shirt with no poker markings at all.
In case you've been wondering about that as well, the branding limits have to do with a legal issue here in Italy. The only branding that is allowed in the casino are the logos of companies with legally established .it websites. That excludes a number of the large poker sites, but PokerStars is good to go, and just about everything and everyone are decked out in the black and red.
You can bet the host sponsor are not among those complaining about that pesky law.
The field is huge, the rooms are crowded, and many of the well-known players are, owing to the aforementioned quirk of Italian law, not wearing the logos and patches that so often help us identify them. All of this adds up to every foray on to the tournament floor making us feel much the way we imagine goldfish feel upon seeing the little plastic castle at the bottom of their tank every time they pass by it - wow, where did that come from? That wasn't there before!
Among the faces that have just recently come into focus like some kind of card-based autostereogram are Tobias Reinkemeier, Toni Ojala, [Removed:197], Amnon Filippi and Aurelien Guiglini. We fully expect to be newly discovering more famous faces throughout the day - particularly as the PokerStars Express Bus is due to roll into San Remo at around 4.30pm.
Michael Greco, Marc Goodwin and Tony Cascarino have just arrived after an epic journey. They left London yesterday, got to Paris then spent four hours waiting in a hotel before going to the airport.
They there found out all flights were cancelled, headed back to Paris and got a 6 hour train to Nice where they had to sit next to the toilet as the train was full.
Finally they've just arrived, luckily having only lost 2,000 of their chips so far.
Thierry Van Den Berg must be scratching his head. He held on a flop firing 600 and getting one caller. On the turn he bet 1,600 getting called again before both checked the river.
He lost the hand to his opponent who was holding, the perhaps inexplicable, .