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Alexander Roumeliotis has taken a bit of a hit, doubling up a short-ish stack in a classic coinflip.
Shortish Stack: 
Roumeliotis: 
Board: 
The "shortish stack" weighed in at 20,700 at the start of the hand, and over 40,000 at the end of it. Roumeliotis' stack meanwhile shrank from 66,000 to 45,000 by the end.
- incorporating shoutbox requestaments, the demise of Kristijonas Andrulis, and evidence that Michael Aron is back in the lead with an enormous 170,000 stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
170,000 | 45,000 |
|
35,000 | -18,500 |
|
22,000 | -4,000 |
|
11,500 | |
|
Busted |
Level: 8
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 75
Vojtech Ruzicka may be the chip leader as Level 7 draws to a close - with 135,000 he's just nipped in front of Michael Aron. Of course any of the players near the top of the counts have the ability and opportunity to rise to the end of day top spot, but if yesterday's counts are anything to go on there will be only a dozen players or so making it to Day 2 with six figures.
Nicolo Calia had further increased his stack and was in fact above the 30,000 starting stack mark when he raised in early position to a limp from the gentleman under the gun. It folded back around to the limper who called, and they saw a flop.
Flop: 
The limper now bet out, and Calia quickly folded pocket tens face up.
"You want to see?" his opponent asked nonchalantly, and showed him 
for the worse hand. Calia sighed and dipped back down to 29,000.
There was already around 18,000 in the pot by the time we arrived, just in time to see the turn of the 
board being dealt. John Duthie checked it, and after a long, long dwell, his young opponent checked behind.
The river was the and Duthie asked the young gentleman to spread his stack - flat on the felt, it was revealed to total 18,600. Duthie bet 5,000, and after just the shortest pause to assess his options, the young man folded.
The man who founded the EPT is now doing rather well in it - Duthie is at 62,000.
Niccolo Calia just doubled back up to around 25,000 after pushing over the top of a raise with 
and getting a call from 
holding on a 
board.
Jake Cody just made a big call after on the river of a 
board, he and his opponent had both checked the flop before Cody fired on the turn only to be face with a raise. The former EPT champion called before tank-calling an additional 9,700 on the river.
"Good call," said his opponent mucking his hand.
Cody flashed the as he scooped the pot, his stack around the 60,000 mark.
No luck here for EPT Vilamoura winner Toby Lewis, the youngster had on an 
board and got his stack in by the river except his opponent had for the flopped full house.
Sami Kelopuro's chip count might not look like it changed much over the last two levels, but in fact prior to his recent bust out (more on that in a moment) he'd dropped to under 10,000, then found a comfortable double-up opportunity vs. Pernille Ravn. He'd raised preflop, she'd upped it to 3,100 and he'd moved in for his 9,500. She gave him a spin with but was dominated - he held 
. The board paired his Ace and it looked like Kelopuro's EPT fortune might at last be changing...
But then - Jacks full. On a 
board, what else does he run into but quad deuces.
