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A most fortunate double up for Ion Pavel - he got it in with 
against Cengiz Ulusu's 
and started to make a sound like, "Bah," but soon quietened down when the board ran out 
. Pavel doubled to 240,000 and Ulusu dropped to 190,000.
Dominik Nitsche started the day on just about average, but he has now plummeted right into the 10-big-blind danger zone.
"I doubled someone up," he said cheerfully when a concerned member of the German press enquired as to what had happened. As it turned out, our roving reporter Gloria Balding and her giant cup of coffee witnessed it firsthand. According to her and her caffeinated friend, the board was jack-high and the chips went in at some point before the river, Nitsche holding a jack of some sort and local boy Radim Soudsky holding pocket kings.
Soudsky doubled to around 300,000 but Nitsche was left with just 45,000 or so - nine big blinds right now. We did see him go all in once after that but he got no callers, and remains in a precarious position as we near the bubble.
Olivier Daeninckx opened to 12,000 preflop from early position and Melanie Weisner had flat-called on the button. Former EPT finalist Rasmus Nielsen then peeled from the small blind and big blind Roberto Nulli also made the call.
The flop came 
with Nielsen and Nulli checking it across to Daeninckx who bet 18,500. Weisner quickly folded, as did the Dane but Nulli check-raised to what looked to be around 60,000 with about 105,000 behind, leaving the Frenchman scratching his head. After a minute, he made his decision, one of moving all-in to cover the Italian, Nulli called instantly.
Daeninckx: 
Nulli: 
The turn was the 
to give Nulli quads and he cheered incredibly loudly to the point that Matt Affleck on the next table gave him some slightly tongue-in-cheek applause. The 
river changed nothing and Nulli doubled to around 370,000. Daeninckx was left with about 140,000.
Over on Table 1 there has been some words of war between Charles Chattha and Felix Bleiker, the only man not to write on his bag how many chips he had at the end of Day 2.
Bleiker had accused Chattha of stalling during a hand, which seemed to rile Mr Chattha somewhat.
"You're having a laugh," exclaimed Chattha, before informing Bleiker that he had "only played like three hands so far."
Looks like Chattha has himself an enemy for some reason! Chattha is a man in form, having finished third in a £2,500 event just two weeks ago for a cool £63,395.
We'll keep our eyes and ears open on Table 1 for any more developments
Giuseppe Festa is another player who will be leaving the EPT without any reward for his 2+ days of tournament effort. It folded to Festa in the small blind (he had under 80k), he saw an Ace, he moved in. Kevin MacPhee in the big blind looked down, he saw and Ace, he called.
MacPhee: 
Festa: 
Seeing the flop: 
probably made the turn much worse - 
; Festa slammed a hand on the table and stood up to leave while MacPhee adds to his towers.
Chris Moorman famously slept in and missed the start of his WSOPE heads-up match against Neil Channing and we have something similar here today. Both David Stogel and Constantin Raducan are yet to tak their seats despite the level being halfway complete!
WAKE UP BOYS!
Olivier Daeninckx may have arrived today with just the barest trace of a stack, but he's climed from just 18,000 to 150,000 in a very short while. Already up to 74,000 when this wince-inducing hand came along, he was all in preflop with 
vs. Roberto Nulli's 
.
Nulli jumped like he'd stuck a finger in a socket when the flop came down 
, and again when the final two cards - 
came down.
Nulli sees his starting 200k drop to under 100k, and is not too happy about it.
Haykel Cherif Vidal has started the day the way he means to go on by doubling up with aces versus kings.
I didn't catch the action but it is safe to assume the money went in preflop, Vidal holding against the of Kirill Zapletin. The final board read 
and Vidal doubled up to around 168,000 whilst his opponent dropped to 120,000
No cash today for EPT Vilamoura champ Toby Lewis. He had been anything but conservative at the start of play with his short stack (in fact his table as a whole wins the 'most all ins in 15 minutes' award) and had already picked up one pot from Melanie Weisner with a preflop threebet.
However this time when he shoved over a Ben Carpenter open (to 13k) and a Weisner call, still hovering around the 100k mark, Lewis was called immediately by Weisner (who apologised for thinking Carpenter was already out of the action) and showed 
vs. Lewis' .
The board came down 
and he gave a brief table-tap before walking out just eleven off the money.
Our first player has busted out meaning just 12 more places until the money.
Milous Artjoms moved all in from the button with and Mikael Norinder made the call from the big blind with 
for a classic coinflip situation. Norinder won the flip as the final board ran out 
and the screens now display "92 Players Remaining."
