Pier Paolo Fabretti is the latest Team PokerStars Pro to bust.
We missed the hand but an Italian colleague kindly offered up the information in broken English. It seemed as if the Italian got the last of his chips in with a 
on a 
flop. His opponent held 
and the turn and river bricked out.
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Patrik Antonius has been hovering around his starting stack since he registered late on Day 1b and it appears that he cannot get anything going today either. He started the day with 34,700 and he now has 35,900.
In a hand just now Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier checked from the small blind, Antonius checked in the big blind, Alessandro Speranza checked from late positon and Mihai Manole complete the round of checking from the cutoff. The flop, by the way, read 
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The turn brought the 
into play and when ElkY checked for a second time Antonius fired a bet of 5,500 which Speranza folded to, albeit after 45 seconds' thinking time, Manole folded more quickly and ElkY even quicker than him.
Just before the break Chris Moorman opened to 2,000 from the button and Panagiotis Gavriulidis made it 5,000 in the small blind, the online star made the call to see a flop of 
but Gavriulidis chose to check, Moorman bet 6,300 but was check-raised to 14,000. He made the call and the 
came on the turn.
Gavriulidis now fired 16,000 and Moorman called once more to see the 
on the river. The Greek player now bet another 16,000 but this time Moorman moved all in for 43,900.
Gavriulidis tanked into the break before finally calling and Moorman showed 
for the turned straight. Gavriulidis was furious and began talking in a cross manner to Konstantinos Nanos while Moorman raked in a huge pot with a slightly embarrassed smile.
Afterwards he said, "When he check-raised me on the flop, I thought he had a lot of ace-high hands so I would win a big pot if the gutshot came in, there's also quite a few turn cards I can bluff..."
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Level: 10
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
One level down, time for a breather.
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It's all over for Eugene Katchalov, he lost most of his stack with 
against and then called off his last 6,000 with 
in the big blind against Matthias De Meulder's small blind push with 
. The Belgian flopped trip jacks and that was all she wrote for Katchalov.
It's not all been going De Meulder's way though, he's just called an all in shove on the turn of a 
board with 
only to find Teresio Ciancanelli with 
for a higher set which held on a 
river. However this pot only cost him around 15,000.
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Oliver Busquet is flying high in the chip counts with a stack of 132,000 chips. We just saw the llatter stages of a hand where he was seated in the cutoff and facing a 2,600 bet from Andreas Vlaghos, who was seated in late position, on a board reading 
. Busquet made the call and the dealer put out the 
on the river.
Vlaghos now checked to his opponent who made it 13,000 to play. Vlaghos sighed, then swallowed hard before quietly saying "call." Busquet turned over 
for a set of threes and Vlaghos showed the bare . Busquet climbs to 132,000 and is now a legitimate threat in this tournament.
Kevin Vandersmissen was all in from the button holding 
but he was called by the big blind Jean-Philippe Rohr who held 
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The 
flop didn't help the Belgian much but the on the turn suddenly gave him a massive draw...which bricked out on the ultimate blank river, the . It's over to the €2,000 event for the former Snowfest runner-up.
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