Richard Toth has been eliminated after getting all-in on the turn of a board with . So far, so reasonable. The problem was he was all-in against Masaaki Kagawa's but even worse, Alex Keating's , which had the other two players drawing dead even before the river was dealt.
Toth was eliminated leaving Keating doubling through Kagawa and taking the Hungarian PokerStars Team Pro's chips as well.
After an excellent start turning a full house with pocket sevens on an X and getting his huge overbet called on the river, Lex Veldhuis has lost most of it back again and is now back to roughly his starting stack.
Veldhuis opened for 600 and got two callers, one of them Vlad Mezheritsky and the other one the gentleman in the small blind; the three of them saw a flop. The small blind checked and Veldhuis bet 1,200, Mezheritsky called and the small blind got out of the way.
The turn was the and Veldhuis now bet out 2,850. Again, Mezheritsky flatted, and they moved on to the river.
The river came down the and this time Veldhuis checked. Mezheritsky bet 6,000, and Veldhuis now check-raised all in to cover. Mezheritsky called all in for 24,600 and turned over for the flopped straight, then raked in the 60,000 pot. Veldhuis mucked and looked ill, and dropped right back down to 34,000.
James Mitchell raised preflop and called a reraise to 1,500 from the gentleman in the big blind to see an flop, and then called the 2,000 the big blind bet out.
Both players checked the turn but come the river Mr. Big Blind bet out another 6,000. Mitchell paid up, but quietly mucked when his opponent turned over .
Luca Pagano has had a pretty unhappy first couple of levels - he was down to around half his starting stack when we caught up with him.
He got a little of it back check-raising to 1,350 from the small blind to a 625 bet from the gent on the button; the button folded. Even so, though, he's still nowhere near what he started with, on 17,500 right now.