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A full double through for Jan Bendik courtesy of a life-saving turn card brings him over 65,000. Preflop two players, Bendik and Mihail Kirilov, raised out a third interested party and saw the 
flop between them. Kirilov checked, Bendik shoved (25k) and Kirilov instacalled with 
. Bendik's 
were in trouble until the 
turn saved his bacon and dropped Kirilov to just 34,000.
Drasutis Tauras Narmontas has passed the 200,000 chip mark after a three-way all in confrontation involving Team PokerStars Pro Theo Jorgensen and Mikko Turtiainen.
Constantin Raducan started the betting with a raise to 3,200 from early position but he soon folded when he saw Narmontas raise to 7,500 from the cutoff, Turtiainen move all in for a total of 16,100 and Jorgensen call off his last 14,900! Narmontas made the call and the cards were revealed.
Narmontas: 
Jorgensen: 
Turtiainen: 
The final board ran out 
, busting Turtiainen and splitting the rest of the pot between Jorgensen and Narmontas.
Francisco Torres, starting the day perilously short-stacked (under 15,000) has been on the increase and is cheerfully getting his stack over the line in an attempt to double it.
His most recent shove (chips on top of small Thomas the Tank Engine figurine) came over the top of Melanie Weisner, who'd made it 2,700 to go preflop, called by Mihail Kirilov. Weisner immediately laid her hand down, but Kirilov thought about it for around half a minute before giving Torres the benefit of the doubt and folding too.
Torres dramatically flipped up his 
and displayed them as if pinned to his shirt before happily raking in the pot.
Somehow Peter Roche escaped potentially deadly pocket kings (vs. aces and, er, 3-4 suited) losing under 20k and remaining on over 60,000 total. It happened because of a sneaky flat call from some preflop (Roche the raiser) which brought Guillaume Darcourt into the hand too.
The flop: 
- with two diamonds. Roche bet 10,000, and was soon raised by Darcourt with 
having flopped the nuts. Mr. Aces (now busto) continued on all in, but Roche folded, leaving the strange result of the flop to be seen by the table.
Darcourt now tops 200,000.
Matt Affleck is down to 67,000 chips after coming off worse from a confrontation with Italy's Riccardo Giacalone.
Giacalone raised from middle position to 3,200 and found two callers in the shape of Opria Cristea in the cutoff and Affleck in the small blind. The three players checked around the 
flop but Affleck came out betting to the tune of 8,200 when the arrived on the turn.
However, both Affleck and Cristea quickly folded when Giacalone raised to 25,000.
Toby Lewis hasn't got off to the best of starts and currently finds himself with a very short stack of 20,000 chips.
Both Lewis, under the gun, and Yonatan Basin checked the 
flop but the 
on the turn prompted Basin to check-call Lewis' bet of 3,500. The 
river saw Basin quickly bet 6,000, forcing a fold from Lewis.
Luca Falaschi has been eliminated by chip leader Dirk Richter, bringing his total stack over the 350,000 mark! Richter, the late-night chip accumulator yesterday, remains comfortably ahead, although a few players are hoping to catch him soon.
Among them is Dermot Blain, who admitted to having a "good start." It appears he was the beneficiary of an aces vs. A-K preflop all in, and is now sitting on 240,000.
Thorsten Schafer has evened out his stack with that of Felix Bleiker after this early confrontation:
Button Schafer opened preflop for 2,700, called by Bleiker in the small blind.
The flop arrived: 
and a check to the button brought a bet of 3,100. Call. The turn was the . Another check, and this time Schafer bet 7,300. Call. The river was another paint card: and now following the third check Schafer declined to bet it, instead revealing 
which took the pot (Bleiker flashed an ).
Toby Lewis is down to around 24,000 chips after running into the flooped flush of Liviu Ignat.
Joining the hand on a board reading 
, Ignat bet 36,500 into the already substantial pot containing around 38,000 chips. Lewis sat for around three minutes before making the call, only to be shown for a flopped flush.
"Omg EPT's are so fun!" tweeted Lewis straight after.
Yes they are my friend, yes they are
It's been a good start to the day for surprise overnight chip leader Dirk Richter - he's extended his monstrous lead to 340,000, and there's still no-one else over 200,000 or so.
We only caught it on the river, the board reading 
. Nikolay Losev had bet out 20,000, but Richter raised to 50,000, eventually eliciting an unwilling fold from Losev. Richter showed him for the full house just to prove that he wasn't messing about, and took the enormous pot.
By the by, everyone else at Richter's table has been overcome by an attack of the thousand-yard stares, except for Mike Pesek whose jaw is for some reason firmly set in a scowl.
