Manuel Bevand has now turned to shoving following his earlier misfortune; most recently he shoved from the cutoff after Matt Affleck had raised in early position and Cengiz Ulusu had called. Affleck folded fairly swiftly, but Ulusu gave Bevand a stern look and tanked up for a while before conceding.
The Frenchman edged back up to 50,000.
John Eames has dropped back down to 130,000 as his 
fell foul of Zsolt Soros' 
. The board ran out 
; after the flop Soros repeatedly demanded another five of the dealer, who obliged on the river. Soros doubled to 72,000.
"I beg," he told the table, "Now I'm dangerous."
Every time I have passed Opria Cristea's table, and he has been involved in a pot, it's been involvement of the all-in preflop kind - he arrived today as a short stack and was still only on 30,000 when he finally got his break.
Two hands prior to this, he'd moved in when it passed to him on the cutoff, and patiently waited while big blind Matt Affleck decided whether or not to take him on. It was 26,000 to call, and Affleck admitted, "It's always good when you don't get snap-called..." before folding.
Cristea did get snap-called by Manuel Bevand though. This second shove came over Bevand's 5k raise and his now 30,500 was at risk with 
vs. the Frenchman's 
. It held; he's up to 64,000.
John Eames has been on a bit of reraising spree - we witnessed him reraising from the button to a raise from Roberto Romanello, and then next hand he reraised from the cutoff to a raise from Michael Anthony Moretto. Both times his opponents folded, and Eames looked quietly smug as he upped his stack to around 150,000.
Ruslan Prydryk has just doubled up through his fellow countryman, Mikhail Lakhitov to boost his stack to 88,000.
On a board reading 
, Prydryk checked then moved all in for 39,200 when Lakhitov bet 8,000 from the button. After around a minute of riffling his chips, he shrugged his shoulders and made the call.
Lakhitov: 
- for a pair of queens
Prydryk: 
- for an unlikely two pair
The river was the 
, keeping Prydryk in front and increasing his stack to 88,000
The flop read 
and Antoine Saout bet out 9,700, but across the table Andreas Berggren made it 22,200 to go. Saout sat there for a bit, looking terribly sad, but we think that's just his default expression as after a little while he went all in. Berggren quickly folded, and Saout is at 110,000 now, though not looking any happier.
Timo Pfutzenreuter, at one point yesterday owner of a large stack, has dropped considerably. Not so far, however, that Fredrik Forsell wanted to call his four-bet shove from the button (Forsell in the big blind having tested his resolve with a reraise). While Forsell steeled himself to bid farewell to his 11k+ Pfutzenreuter read a book propped on the edge of the table, his final 40k sitting in neat piles in front of him. With headphones on and eyes down on the text he looked as if he were waiting for a bus and not to see if he was about to put his EPT on the line.
He did not get the call; Forsell now takes his turn as a short stack.
These appear to be the largest stacks on display mid level 12:
Toby Lewis has had a real rollercoaster ride of emotion during tday's play, both highs and lows.
He started the day with 77,100 chips but quickly found himself as low as 18,000 before finding himself as high as 190,000 in level 11! He now sits behind a pile of chips totalling around 90,000 after he got all in with against on a 
flop. The turn was the 
giving Lewis a flush but the river was another seven, giving his opponent a full house!
It's been entertaining, for us bloggers at least!
Lennart Holz, the man who rather spectacularly busted a short-stacked ElkY yesterday (see https://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2010-ept-prague/main-event/day1b/post.170493.htm?page=6 if you're interested), was in position and looking at a 
board. Nikolay Losev in the big blind had checked to him, and Holz bet 19,500, around a quarter of his stack. Losev called.
The river was the and this time Losev bet out 56,000, not quite enough to put Holz in, but near enough. Holz tanked up for a period that felt like forever but couldn't have actually been eternal as eventually he folded.
Losev is at 160,000 now.
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