Joe Ebanks has survived many a confrontation (and stack adjustment) to get this far, half an hour before the end of play. However, he's just had to pay off 147k from his healthy stack leaving it breathing shallowly and looking faint (45k). He'd raised from the cutoff and found small blind Tom Johansen repopping it to 24,500 (from 6,400). Back to Ebanks, who after a moment's hesitation very softly announced, "All in." It took quite a while for Johansen to call but call he did with , and Ebanks' could do nothing with the flop or turn and river. Online qualifier Johansen nearly at 300k suddenly and looking to end the day in great shape.
Former England footballer Teddy Sheringham has just doubled up thanks to Boyan Bonev. The two got into a raising war and Sheringham's all-in with was called by Bonev's . The flop changed nothing while the on the turn hit the crossbar and startled Sheringham a little. But the river was the ultimate blank and Sheringham now has 210,000.
Can he improve on his previous two EPT cashes? (EPT London and EPT Monte Carlo last year)
...to double up in the closing minutes of the tournament. With a quarter of an hour left on the clock, a lot of hands between deep stacked opponents are taking a good long time (I saw 'Time' called twice in the last room orbit), but some of the shorter stacks are taking this moment as a good opportunity to find an open spot and get it in. Among them Joe Ebanks (trying it under the gun for 43k but getting no action) and Lothar Meier, who re-raised Frederick Jensen's 7k button raise all in preflop, again with little dwell-time, even, before the fold.
221 out of a total (record-breaking) 384 runners in the 2010 Pokerstars EPT Vilamoura returned for Day 2. After eight levels of play over two start days stacks varied from the desperate to the commanding and players displayed differing levels of perkiness due to the impossibility of passing over going out in this balmy resort town at night.
Those in front tended, for the most part, to stay there, and Day 1A top finisher and Pokerstars Team Online member Andre Coimbra is only just trailing the leader at the end of today, none other than Triple Crown seeker Brandon Cantu. He may not have cashed at the EPT before, but his 557,400 stack gives him a good shot tomorrow as only 69 players are coming back and 56 will get paid. He said, in an interview visible here: "I'm actually calling my shot here... and I'm guaranteeing a final table on this one."
Falling short of the third day were early leaders Jonathan Weekes, and Dario Minieri, Pokerstars Team Pros Alex Kravchenko, John Duthie, Ruben Visser, and David Williams and prior champs Liv Boeree and Vicky Coren. These last two players are just one of a large UK contingent, many of whom are still in the upper echelons of the chip counts, including double bracelet-winner JP Kelly, Toby Lewis and Stephen Chidwick.
Join us tomorrow at 12pm local time for another day of live coverage as the field narrows to the paying spots!
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, and Ebanks' 
could do nothing with the 
flop or 
turn and river. Online qualifier Johansen nearly at 300k suddenly and looking to end the day in great shape.
was called by Bonev's 
. The 
flop changed nothing while the 
on the turn hit the crossbar and startled Sheringham a little. But the 
river was the ultimate blank and Sheringham now has 210,000.
