Dermot Blain just narrowly avoided getting his money in badly when he re-raise folded against his Ludovic Marguerat.
Marguerat opened to 8,100, folding out everyone except Blain, who was seated in the small blind. The Irishman then re-raised to 25,500, which prompted his opponent to ask him how many chips he had behind.
"About 170, 185, something like that," came the reply
His opponent then put in another raise, this one to 67,300, which was too much for Blain to call and he mucked his hand. For some unknown reason, the dealer turned over one of Blain's cards, the before shuffling for the next hand.
"Did you have it?" quizzed Blain, to which his opponent nodded
"Aces? You had aces?" asked Blain, to which Marguerat shook his head.
"Kings?" said an inquisitive Blain, to which he received no response. Make of that what you will.
The final hands of today have whizzed by and we're already at bag and tag o'clock. One player happy to have survived his final all in was Jaroslav Vajgl who committed his final 38,300 preflop with . Mikhail Lakhitov had raised to 8,000, and called the rest holding . Vajgl was given a safe board and ends the day with a smile.
Dirk Richter has moved tables, faced dozens of opponents, watched the field shrink from 254 to 93, and all the while maintained the chip lead - a rare feat indeed.
The plan was either to make the money, or halt play after six 75-minute levels, and the bubble stubbornly refused to be reached, let alone burst. This means that 93 players will return tomorrow for Day 3, but despite their solid two days' performance will not necessarily see the financial sort of return.
In best shape, with stacks over the half million mark are Roberto Romanello (566,000), Antonio Palma (545,000) and of course Dirk Richter (593,000). Richter started the day with 100,000 more than the next stack and although he now has close competition from other huge stacks he is still in first place.
Also coming back to the felt tomorrow are EPT Vilamoura champion Toby Lewis, Helen and Josh Prager,Rob Hollink, Kevin MacPhee and Luca Pagano (on track to break his own cashing record yet again)...
Join us for live reporting from 12pm tomorrow local time.
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. Mikhail Lakhitov had raised to 8,000, and called the rest holding 
. Vajgl was given a safe board and ends the day with a smile.
