We picked up the action on the turn with the board reading between Ion Pavel and Matt Waxman. Pavel checked and Waxman bet 500. Pavel made the call and the river completed the board with the . Pavel checked and Waxman fired the same bet, 500. Pavel called.
Waxman flipped over the for two pair, aces and fours, playing the king kicker on board. Pavel double checked his hand and then mucked it, giving Waxman the pot.
Kevin Ayow check-called a bet of 650 from McLean Karr on the flop to see the land on the turn. Ayow checked again and Karr bet 1,925. Ayow made the call.
The paired the board on the river and Ayow checked. Karr took some time to decide on his bet size. He tossed out a single T5,000 chip and announced "3,875". Ayow quickly tossed in the same yellow chip to make the call.
Karr knew right away that he must be beat and announced, "Two pair." After that, Ayow tabled the for a flopped straight. Karr didn't show and Ayow won the pot.
Here are some more of the notables we've stumbled across in the middle section.
As far as the table layout goes, we see a lot of pairings of Team PokerStars Pros sharing space.
Sandra Naujoks and Pierpaolo Fabretti are on the same table, and nearby we found Salvatore Bonavena and Liv Boeree sitting across the felt from one another. On the other side of the room, Martin Czuczor and Fatima Moreira de Melo are together, and Jonathan Duhamel and Matthias De Meulder will be looking to terrorize their table along the far windows.
It's almost time for Day 1b of the 2011 PokerStars.it European Poker Tour San Remo. Yesterday saw a starting flight of 359 runners take to the felt with over 100 of them hitting the rail by day's end. Gianluca Trebbi bagged up the most chips at 159,600 and is the overall man to catch so far.
Today should have even more runners than yesterday with plenty more big names and Team PokerStars Pros to fill seats in the tournament area. Some of those slated to play today are Liv Boeree, Jonathan Duhamel, Betrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Eugene Katchalov and Vanessa Selbst. They'll be joined by Shaun Deeb, Matt Waxman and Philipp Gruissem.
Play is set to kick off at 2:00 PM local time with another eight levels of play on the slate. Just like yesterday, Dinner break will come after Level 5 for half the field and the second half will take it when they come back. Stay tuned for all the updates right here on PokerNews.