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Grzegorz Cichocki just doubled through to 144k after picking up 
preflop at the same time as Dario Minieri found 
. The resulting pot dragged a full 70k from Minieri who's left with 34k and a glum expression, although he did tell his opponent, "Nice hand," as he stacked his chips.
More exits:
Lars Berggren
Francisco Jose Oliveira
Nuno Goncalves
John Strzemp
Sebastien Bidinger had reraised all-in for around 29,400 against Per Martin Jacobson who made a call with 
probably fairly happy to be up against the Frenchman's 
.
The scary Swede-friendly flop came 
and the 
on the turn suddenly put Jacobson in the lead and reduced Bidinger to just one solitary out which didn't come on the 
river.
We arrived at the table just in time to see Antonio Esfandiari investing over 10,000 of his chips on the river of a 
rainbow board, before mucking with a sour expression when his opponent Ronny Kaiser turned over 
and dropping to around 90,000.
At this point your reporter was distracted by something across the room, but when we looped back around to Esfandiari's table, we found that his stack had dropped further to 40,000 and his expression had soured even further. This is a most significant downswing for the usually high-volume American - he started the day in the top ten and is now well below average.
It sounds as though the Dutchies had a very good night by all accounts - and although most of them made it in this morning for roughly the start of the tournament, one seat has remained empty.
Where Lex Veldhuis should be, there is only a modest stack of chips, and a shot of single malt whisky, thoughtfully provided for him by tablemate and fellow Dutch Team PokerStars Pro Pieter de Korver. We hope he makes it here soon.
BREAKING NEWS
Mr. Veldhuis has now appeared. We understand that he did not drink the whisky. We do not blame him.
Day 1A chip leader and Pokerstars Team Online member Andre Coimbra just picked up another 45k to add to his already towering stack, getting it in well ahead after a short dwell when big blind M. Goncalves moved in for 36k into a pot of 14k preflop. A third player who'd been dissuaded from joining the pot by the vigorous preflop raising now stood up looking more tense than Coimbra and the all-in player, Coimbra then calling and flipping over 
. Goncalves held and could only watch as the board came an unhelpful 
. Out he went, while player three made a hissing noise, as if to make clear that had he been in it, he would have won it.
Poor old Ruben Visser. After doubling up young Brit Dan Carter at the start of the day, the Dutch Team PokerStars Pro then managed to run into someone else's pocket kings no fewer than three times in the course of just four hands. He did not manage to win any of those hands, and he is now busted. Most unfortunate.
Dan Carter, meanwhile, has reason to celebrate - not only is he now in possession of some decent chips, but today is also his 23rd birthday. Happy birthday, Dan. He's told us that, young though he is, he's become bored of poker recently, and this will be the last tournament he plays until next year's WSOP Main Event. Would be nice if he picks up a little something here this week to remind him of what he's missing over the year to come.
After winning that pot, Andre Coimbra lost all his newly purloined chips plus a few more across to Henri Kasper. The Estonian had got into a raising war with 
against Coimbra's 
with an underpair friendly board of 
which doubled up Kasper to over 100,000 while Coimbra dropped to around the same.
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And after the singular success of a set of sixes, Alex Kravchenko's mood has somewhat soured. He was all-in with on a 
against Patrick Sacrispeyre's (what else?) trip sixes but failed to spike a saving ace that would save the Russian. He's been eliminated, Sacrispeyre has about 80,000.
Because the levels are 75 minutes today, the players get 15 minutes of break after every one. Back soon.
