In a three-bet pot to the 
flop, two bigger stacks clashed in Stefan Aurelian Gheorghe and Natalia Drytchak.
Stefan Aurelian Gheorghe: 
Natalia Drytchak: 
Gheorghe needed a heart to remain in contention, but shipped over his above-average stack to Drytchak after the 
turn and 
river came up blank.
Level: 14
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 3,000
Artan Dedusha was spotted while leaving the tournament area and his stack was shipped over to table neighbor Helder Pinho. Aleeyah Jadavji confirmed the hand details and it was a classic flip that decided over the fate of Dedusha.
According to Jadavji, Bogdan Berinde opened to 5,000 in the cutoff and Helder Pinho three-bet the button to 15,000. Dedusha jammed for 65,000 in the small blind to force out Berinde, but Pinho called with 
. Dedusha had a flip with pocket fives and failed to hold up on a board of 
.
Andrei Racolta has not survived the first level of Day 2 and his title defense has come to an early end. According to Ran Shahar, Racolta three-bet jammed the button with and Shahar called with 
. Only a jack appeared on the flop, turn and river were blanks.
Carmen Zainescu also walked out of the tournament area and mentioned something about a battle of the blinds and being put all in by an opponent with jack-six suited.
Derek Reid has knocked out yet another player early into Day 2 and has nearly overtaken Vasile Rablou on his table, who started among the biggest stacks. Reid opened from under the gun and called the shove of Yijun Hao for 18,000 in total.
Yijun Hao: 
Derek Reid: 
The board came 
and Reid rivered the flush for good measure. Morten Mortensen was also among those to run out of chips in the first level of the day.
Chrysi Phiniotis got her last 26,500 in preflop with the 
and Gusti Adrian Sas isolated with the 
. The board came 
and Phiniotis had reason to celebrate.
After coming into the day with seven big blinds, Martin Jacobson was among the early casualties and fellow 888poker ambassador Chris Moorman confirmed what had happened. According to Moorman, Jacobson had jammed ace-deuce right into the kings of Alexandru Papazian.
Derek Reid opened to 6,000 and was called by Bahadir Hatipoglu from one seat over. Stefanita Fechete three-bet to 19,000 and Reid moved all in to force a fold from Hatipoglu, while Fechete called for around 60,000.
Stefanita Fechete: 
Derek Reid:
"I had king ten suited," Hatipoglu added and they saw the board run out 
to end Fechete's run a few minutes into Day 2.
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