We joined the action as Isidre Just Vivancos was betting 3,000 into a pot of around 7,500 of a completed board showing . The player with the decision was Daniel Soler, who folded showing , but saw that he was right to do so, with Just flashing the for the straight irrespective of what his other card was.
Marc Rosell made it 100 on a board showing but was raised by Manuel Torrents to 500. On the river of , Torrents repeated the raise as a bet of 500, and Rosell called with , taking it down.
Cedric Balsalobre appears to be the first casualty of the day as he lost parts of his stack to Isidre Just Vivancos and Younesse Oualgasi over on table one. That happened in level one still, which vaults Just Vivancos and Oualgasi into an early lead.
Over on table seven with Bence Szazsko, a big pot played out between Alejandro Rivera de Torres and Chu Khuu. Rivera de Torres bet the river for what appeared to be 1,600 and Khuu raised it up to 7,850.
Rivera de Torres eventually called and was shown for a full house by Khuu. The Spaniard mucked his for a flush and dropped just below the starting stack.
According to the screens, there are 119 players registered of which 117 remain, and below are further notables that have recently taken their seats. This also includes Spain's 2016 November Niner Fernando Pons.
Table 14 recently opened and players that registered late were getting seated. Soon a line-up like no other in the room emerged with Haykel Cherif Vidal, Tomas Fara, Catalin Pop, Cate Hall and Sergio Alonso Camunas. Pop won the 888Live Rozvadov Main Event and made it back-to-back trophies in yesterday's €2,200 High Roller.
Pop won an early pot against Cherif Vidal and Fara then took on Hall, who raised from under the gun and picked up three callers. On the flop, action checked to Fara and he bet 850. Only Hall called and the duo then checked the turn and the river. Hall showed and Fara had that beat with .
On the flop of , Catalin Pop bet and called the check-raise to 700 by Sergio Alonso Camunas out of the big blind. The turn was checked and Alonso Camunas then bet the river for 1,600. Pop called and mucked as soon as he was shown by the Spaniard.