Artur Koren raised to 2,300 and Frank Williams three-bet to 6,600 out of the big blind, which Koren called. On the flop , Williams continued for 6,700 and Koren called before they checked the on the turn. The river let Williams fire 12,300 with the and Koren called to win the pot with .
Quite a big pot had emerged until the turn and Ilari Sahamies moved all in for his last 14,200. Jan Jansma reluctantly called and was then ready to muck his when he got shown for a flopped full house. The river blanked and Sahamies got a full double up.
The action of Day 2 started ten-handed and will soon switch to nine-handed as players are sent to the rail in the upcoming minutes and hours. Once the last two tables from downstairs break, the entire field will be upstairs in two split tournament areas as well.
The table of Julian Stuer, Daniel Dvoress, Richard Milne, Jasper Wetemans and Jasper Meijer just broke to leave two tables downstairs, of which plenty of talent is represented. Morten Mortensen, Juha Helppi, Jean Montury, Noah Boeken and Steve O'Dwyer share table 8 while table 10 features Johan van Til, Przemyslaw Piotrowski, Joep van den Bijgaart, Tom Hall and Omer Cubukcu.
"I had the dream spot, ace-king against ace-queen for a 55k pot," Kevin Killeen said on the stairs while chatting with Ludovic Geilich. The Scot had also busted early on and both shared some bad beats and setups before heading into different directions.
It was the of Farid Yachou and Killeen's , though Yachou had made a flush on the turn to send his opponent to the rail.
In a three-bet pot, Jans Arends and Ludovic Geilich headed to a ten-high flop and a continuation bet was called. A king on the turn got checked through and the queen on the river gave a four-card straight. Geilich had made a full house with queens and shoved only for Arends to snap him off with kings for the higher full house.
Rachid Choukri was eliminated right off the bat and Menny Ben Haim followed soon after. He shoved for his 12 big blind stack with the and Chin Sin Chang reraised with the to isolate successfully. The board ran out and Chang's nut flush scored the knockout.
Floor staff has confirmed that there were 13 new entries before the start of Day 2. The full list is not available yet but among them was Bryn Kenney for certain.