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Juha Lauttamus will not be making his second EPT final table this week. In fact, he will not even be cashing in this event, after his pocket aces came a cropper to Day 1 chip leader Perica Bukara's pocket sevens when a third seven dropped on the flop.
Bukara increased his stack to around 500,000.
Players are back at the felt, and the bubble is rapidly approaching. 68 players remain, and only 56 of them are going to get paid.
Shuffle up and deal.
Level: 16
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 500
Players are on the first break of the day.
After taking a few hits early on - he doubled up Olev Makovenko twice, and also several times three-bet preflop and then folded to a four-bet - Ivan Demidov is back up to 460,000, almost what he started the day with.
With almost 60,000 in the pot by the 
flop, Demidov calmly bet out 25,500 from the big blind position before returning to surfing the web on his ipad. His opponent Juha Lauttamus (who finalled EPT Prague back in 2007 and finished 10th in Prague in 2009 as well) squirmed for a while but eventually folded.
Lauttamus dropped to 130,000 while Demidov looked up from his ipad again to stack his new chips.
We arrived just in time to see Jussi Jaatinen doubling up to 250,000 through Frederik Boberg, his 
making a full house on the 
board. We didn't get to see Boberg's hand but he didn't look happy as his stack shrank to 108,000.
Since the early demise of Michael Piper, it's pretty much fallen on Ville Salmi to carry the weight of 'Best facial hair in the tournament'. But sadly for all lovers of this catergory, the Finn with awesome beard has just been eliminated.
The flop was reading 
and Salmi had bet 10,200 only to be check-raised to 29,000 by Nathanael Filskov. Salmi tanked for a couple of minutes before declaring he was all-in, pushing for what looked like 100,000 more. Filskov thought for about a minute but then made the call and Salmi looked pained as he turned over 
to Filskov's 
.
Said the Finn, "I hoped you would fold a jack, maybe not ace-jack but most other jacks."
The 
turn gave Salmi additional outs but the 
river wasn't what he was looking for. Filskov chips up to around 350,000.
Seppo Parkkinen got his whole stack in with 
from the small blind and was most unfortunate to find himself dominated by big blind Attilio Donato's 
. However, Parkkinen's luck soon changed when the community cards came down 
andhe doubled to 150,000. Donato shook his head and dropped to 225,000.
Steven Van Zadelhoff has been a steadily increasing stack throughout this tournament and has never really been anything other than comfortable at any point so far.
The Dutchman was just paid off to the tune of 55,000 on the river of a 
board by Mikhail Alexandrov to boost his chip stack to around the 400,000 mark.
It seems we just saw this hand. For the second time in 20 minutes, Arnaud Mattern called a shove with 
to see he was up against . This time, it was PokerStars teammate Vadim Markushevski whom he put at risk. And this time, Mattern had to wait for the turn to get his queen. The board fell 
, and Markushevski hit the felt and then the rail. Mattern has taken his stack from 152,000 to 300,000 this level.
