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At least half of Fernando Brito's remaining stack went in preflop and he went all in for his remaining 37,000 on the 
flop. Dennis Kipnis made the call, and the EPT Player of the Year frontrunner doubled up to 150,000.
Brito: 
Kipnis: 
Turn and river: 
, 
Dominique Franchi headed the queue to the mincash zone when he found an Ace and an open spot to shove on Ronan Monfort. Monfort called the 32,000 immediately with 
and found Franchi with 
. The board came down decisively in favour of the pocket pair: 
and Franchi made his exit while Monfort has just over 100,000.
Joris Digregorio Zitella had been getting shovey with his short stack for a while, and he eventually got a call when he did it over an opening raise from Cengiz Ulusu. Ulusu called, Zitella was dominated, and Ulusu was soon stacking up a 200,00 stack while Zitella headed for the payout desk.
Zitella: 
Ulusu: 
Board: 
Such was the incredulous question asked by Ronan Monfort when huge-stacked Roberto Romanello won a 130k pot from Salvatore Irace. Romanello clearly has too many chips for his own good, ending up on the button heads up with Irace on a board of 
, and deciding to have a go at it there and then. He raised Irace's lead to 53,500, and after a short pause got the call.
The river: 
. Irace checked quickly, and Romanello decided to check behind. He showed down 
which of course was now a pair of fives. Irace showed a losing 
flush/straight draw.
In response to Monfort's question Romanello said with a grin, "You should fold! Why are you calling?"
Besim Hot has not been able to live up to his name sake and is now outside in the cold after being eliminated from this tournament.
Team PokerStars pro Richard Toth opened with a raise to 13,000 from early position and this was met with a re-raise to 50,000 from Hot in the cutoff seat. Paul Knebel, on the button, asked Hot for a count and when he was informed he had 118,000, Knebel moved all in. Toth quickly folded but Hot stuck around and made the call for his tournament life.
Knebel:
Hot: 
The final board ran out 
and Hot was eliminated and the €640,000 first prize draws a little closer for the rest of the players
Filip Nechansky got it in good with from the small blind against big blind Sergio Rodriguez Sanchez' pocket 
, but it worked out badly for him in the end as the board ran out 
and he hit the rail. Sanchez moved up to 250,000.
Paul Knebel opened to 14,000 and Francisco Torres in the small blind pushed his whole stack and his little toy train card protector into the middle. To his left in the big blind, Josh Prager announced, "Um, I make it... I min-raise this one," indicating Torres' stack. Knebel fodled, and they were on their backs.
Torres:
Prager:
Board: 
The pot and the train headed back to Torres, who is back in the game on 180,000.
There seems to be a new trend of cracking aces going on in the poker room today, the latest victim of this being Tayfeh Sokor Mohsen Jalal who just had them cracked by Salvatore Irachi, on the very last hand before the break.
Jalal opened the betting under the gun with a min-raise to 12,000, everyone folded around to Ronan Monfort in the small blind who made it 28,500 to play. Irachi, in the big blind, moved all in and was instantly called by Jalal, though Monfort folded.
Irachi:
Jalal:
The very first card out on the flop was the , prompting some sort of whooping noise from the man with the set of fives, the other two flop cards were by the way.
The turn was the and when the peeled off on the river and completed the hand, Jalal headed for the rail whilst the rest of the players went on a 15 minute break.
Micro-stacked Omri Sason has held on to his tournament life with a mini run of cards he probably wished had come back when he had 96,000 rather than 11,500 (under two big blinds). His last chips went in as a call of Denis Kipnis' preflop minraise, and the big blind came along for the ride.
Sason's tiny stack sat over the line with a Kinder MAXI on top doubling its height.
The two players with stacks behind checked quickly all the way to the river: 
and Sason turned up the mighty . We didn't see Kipnis' cards but they didn't beat Queens, and the big blind showed and said, "I tried!"
Sason tripled up but is still in dire straits.
Second break of the day, and we're almost at the first money jump. Back in 15 minutes.
