Big blind Mark Demirjian found action to accompany his , as small blind Konstantinos Tsirakidis moved all in preflop for 24,900 after 7,200 had been invested by Daniel Flores Mata. Taking his time, Demirjian asked Mata for his stack size, fiddled with his own (larger) stack, and then flat called. Mata hesitated over his decision but passed - looking relieved to see the monster behind him.
Tsirakidis showed which picked up a draw on the flop but missed on the turn and river. Down to 328 players.
Team PokerStars Pro Sandra Naujoks has been eliminated by Ilan Boujenah, the Frenchman's luck holding through the end of Day 1b into Day 2 as he put her to the test preflop with . She had raised under the gun to 2,700 and Boujenah on the button raised, having ascertained she had just 23,000 total. In it went. She showed and missed the lot, having to interrupt her massage to leave the tournament.
Kristijonas Andrulis fired out 1,900 on a flop of against Tobias Wagner but the German made the call to see a turn that both players checked.
The river made it four to the straight when the come and Wagner led out for 3,300. Andrulis quickly made it 10,000 but Wagner, with equal speed, made it all-in for 28,300 total and the Lithuanian folded just as fast.
Despite admittedly being a night owl with little regard for the early part of the day, Arnaud Mattern has made the most of Level 1 so far, keeping his stack in motion and raising it to 40,000. He did check-fold one three-bet flop () after calling 7,500 from Alexis Morlet in the cutoff, but got the chips back in a blind on blind confrontation.
The small blind Gert Roland Zumkehr limped, and Mattern raised, bet the flop, bet the turn and shipped the river for 15,000. It was only at this point that Zumkehr folded.
Jean-Philippe Rohr, Mikhall Shakhnovich and Ishak Noyan have been eliminated from the tournament. The exits are coming very quickly and we're estimating it won't take more than a couple of levels for the top floor to be completely cleared of players.
Kimon Lehmann fired out 4,000 on the turn of a board against Darin Kramer and the South African made the call to see a possible action-creating river.
Lehmann now checked and Kramer quickly set his opponent all-in for his last 28,500, the German tanked for several minutes before finally sighing and making the call.
Kramer looked saddened as he was forced to turn over and Lehmann was relieved to have made a good call with .
"Nice call," said McLean Karr as Lehmann doubled to about 70,000.
Tomi Aalto opened from the small blind to 2,500 and Max Pescatori 3-bet in the big blind but before we could even gauge the size of the bet, Aalto was all-in and the Italian had instantly called.
Aalto:
Pescatori:
The board came and Pescatori doubled up to a huge 106,000. Aalto is crippled.
Ana Marquez is busto, having nursed a short stack so far through the day. In pretty much the same boat, neighbour Sven Reichardt picked up at the same time as she found . Caught from the flopped (although their stack sizes pretty much guarantee this was a preflop shove-call), this hand became her last as the turn and river brought the .
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, as small blind Konstantinos Tsirakidis moved all in preflop for 24,900 after 7,200 had been invested by Daniel Flores Mata. Taking his time, Demirjian asked Mata for his stack size, fiddled with his own (larger) stack, and then flat called. Mata hesitated over his decision but passed - looking relieved to see the monster behind him.
which picked up a draw on the 
flop but missed on the 
turn and river. Down to 328 players.
. She had raised under the gun to 2,700 and Boujenah on the button raised, having ascertained she had just 23,000 total. In it went. She showed 
and missed the lot, having to interrupt her massage to leave the tournament.
against Tobias Wagner but the German made the call to see a 
come and Wagner led out for 3,300. Andrulis quickly made it 10,000 but Wagner, with equal speed, made it all-in for 28,300 total and the Lithuanian folded just as fast.
) after calling 7,500 from Alexis Morlet in the cutoff, but got the chips back in a blind on blind confrontation.
board against Darin Kramer and the South African made the call to see a possible action-creating 
and Lehmann was relieved to have made a good call with 
.
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