Daniel Negreanu (pictured) is down to under half his stack (around 13k) after a turn card which saw Javier Garcia practically move at lightning speed to threebet all in.
The flop of was threeway with Elky involved as well, but after he bet 1k and Negreanu called on the button, Garcia check-raised out of the big blind. Elky folded but after a brief ponder Negreanu called. The turn paired the board with the . Out bet Garcia, 4,050 this time. Negreanu wordlessly raised to 10,150. This was the point where Garcia's whole stack (more than his opponent's) moved so fast across the line there were burn marks on the felt. Shaking his head Negreanu let the hand go after a short think and is now down to a stack which, to be fair, a couple of years ago would have been more than the starting stack for this event.
So after the first two levels of the day who do we think is having a nice break? Leonid Zezik with ~63,000, Igor Kurganov with ~ 60,000, Daniel Drescher with ~100,000, Constantin Friedrich Meyer with ~68,000 & Peter Bosen with ~110,000.
And who is not enjoying the break? Denys Drobyna who was sprawled fast asleep on his table! That or the longest reaction to a bad beat we have ever witnessed.
Today seems much more stocked with early big moves and river check-raises and general stackery than Day 1A. Whenever a pile of 5k chips has coalesced in the middle of a table, it draws press over like vultures - and that's exactly what happened when Vincent Attal moved all in on the river of a board. He'd check raised Igur Kurganov who had 10k in front of him (but may have bet less and been waiting for change). The all in bet was 19,000 and Kurganov considered for a while before finally throwing in the call and showing for the straight which felt uncomfortable with the pairing river - but not uncomfortable enough to fold.
Attal heads to the rail with no look of grief, but a smile for the table.
There was around 4,500 in the pot by the turn of the board when we arrived tableside. Daniel Negreanu spent a few moments dithering, before putting his whole 10,000-or-so stack in the middle.
His opponent Javier Garcia - the same gentleman who was responsible earlier for Negreanu's near-crippling - folded instantly.
Javier Garcia, a man with just two live results to his name (albeit very respectable ones - he took 17th place at EPT Vilamoura in 2009 and 10th place at this year's EPT Monte Carlo High Roller event) - is refusing to be cowed by his rather better known tablemates.
The man who crippled Daniel NEgreanu earlier on has now gone one better and knocked out Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier.
ElkY bet a little over 5,000 on the river of a board, but Garcia then check-raised to cover him. ElkY called all in, but was shown by Garcia and just mucked before taking his leave.
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Luca Pagano: consistency is his middle name
Team Pokerstars Pro Luca Pagano faced a third raise preflop courtesy of a player sat two to his right, and after a round of statue-sitting he made the call of what was now over 3,000. The flop arrived and in a fraction of the time it took him to decide to call preflop, his cards now sailed into the muck.
Luca Pagano has one of the foremost track records at the EPT, having graced the tournament circuit all the way back to its first incarnation (he cashed in Barcelona in 2004 too). In fact there aren't many countries he hasn't cashed in, as he has the record for the number of cashes (and keeps breaking his own record). Final tables and six figure wins are not uncommon (his largest being €337,000 for his sixth place at the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo in 2008) but he's yet to hoist a glass trophy here.
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was threeway with Elky involved as well, but after he bet 1k and Negreanu called on the button, Garcia check-raised out of the big blind. Elky folded but after a brief ponder Negreanu called. The turn paired the board with the 
. Out bet Garcia, 4,050 this time. Negreanu wordlessly raised to 10,150. This was the point where Garcia's whole stack (more than his opponent's) moved so fast across the line there were burn marks on the felt. Shaking his head Negreanu let the hand go after a short think and is now down to a stack which, to be fair, a couple of years ago would have been more than the starting stack for this event.
board. He'd check raised Igur Kurganov who had 10k in front of him (but may have bet less and been waiting for change). The all in bet was 19,000 and Kurganov considered for a while before finally throwing in the call and showing 
for the straight which felt uncomfortable with the pairing river - but not uncomfortable enough to fold.
board when we arrived tableside. Daniel Negreanu spent a few moments dithering, before putting his whole 10,000-or-so stack in the middle.
by Garcia and just mucked before taking his leave.
and Langmann bet 3,000. His opponent called without much of a pause for thought, and indeed he just mucked to Langmann's flopped 
set.
