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Early Frank Calo lost 
to 
then 
to 
in quick succession. He's now just lost most of his stack.
Calo fired 18,000 on a 
flop then 31,500 on the 
turn before pushing all-in on the river. William Thorson had been check-calling him from the big blind on ever street before snap-calling the river and turning over 
against Calo's ahead-until-the-end 
.
Calo has been crippled with just 31,000 left. Thorson is back up to 274,000
Sam Trickett loses 194k to Sergio Coutinho - whose were in great shape when they got it in preflop against the young Englishman's 
. The board ran out 
dropping his once 2nd place stack down to 275k.
With the flop reading 
Frederick Jensen saw his flop bet of 17,500 check-raised to 43,000 by the vociferous Italian Fabrizio Ascari. Jensen called and they saw a 
turn.
Ascari now moved all-in and Jensen snap-called turning over 
but Ascari had gotten extremely lucky with 
turning a set. Jensen put his hands on his head in disbelief as the 
river came down. Ascari ran across to the nearest wall with his hands above his head in celebration as though he'd just won the 100m at the Olympics.
"I'm not fishing, I'm not fishing," he cried, "I'm lucky but I'm not fishing! I win the tournament, you all watch out, I am very crazy man!" He then turned to Jensen, the latter with a look on his face as though someone had just run over his puppy, and continued, "Sorry man, you have bad luck, I'm not fishing, I'm lucky but not fishing."
Overcome with emotion, Ascari even had time to turn and kiss his masseuse on the cheek and she tried to stiffle a giggle. Ascari now has 500,000 while Jensen is left with 170,000 remaining.
Janos Toth opened to 16,000 UTG and Martin Jacobson called behind him before Gyula Szilagyi moved all-in for 148,000. Toth folded quickly but Jacobson thought about it for a couple of minutes before making a call for decent chunk of his stack.
Szilagyi: 
Jacobson: 
was the board, the river stunning Szilagyi slightly as he shook hands with his assassin.
33 players remain.
Team PokerStars Pro Marcin Horecki had been nursing a short stack for some time when he got his last in with 
against Sam Trickett's .
Board: 
Trickett moved on up to 510,000 while Horecki hit the rail. Poland's hopes of EPT glory now rest with Grzegorz Cichocki alone.
No sooner had Toby Lewis started to flirt with the magical million-chip mark, than a couple good hands gone bad dropped him back to 600,000 or so.
No. 1
Lewis raised in late position and Frederick Jensen in the big blind shipped his whole stack in. Lewis called with 
and was ahead of Jensen's speculative 
, but the 
board gave Jensen a winning two pair and he doubled up.
No. 2
This time we didn't quite catch the action but we know that all the chips went in preflop.
Lewis:
Dutch woolly hat enthusiast Erik van den Berg: 
Check out this board: 
Van den Berg doubled to 360,000, and Lewis was no longer gigantic chip leader.
Hit after hit to our start-of-day chip leader, and now he's finally been polished off still miles off the FT. The last bites from his stack included a double nip from Dmitry Gromov, with the Russian first off moving in in the blind over Cantu's button raise to 21k. Cantu counted and then called the extra 83k, but his failed to improve against Gromov's 
, although four diamonds appearing led Cantu to quietly encourage a "Diamond ball!" which never emerged.
This now meant that his neighbour outchipped him, and the final hand saw Cantu repopping Gromov (a further 93,500 over Gromov's bet of 51k) preflop. Call and race!
Cantu:
Gromov: 
"Ace ball.." was the hope this time, quiet and fervent, "...Please!" His wish looked like it had been granted as the first card out was the , but the joined it and Cantu's triple crown dream ends here, this time.
Wolfgang Wurzer managed to double up to 120,000 after getting it all-in from the small blind against Sergio Coutinho. Coutinho's couldn't spike against Wurzer's 
and Coutinho was left with just 80,000.
Coutinho pushed all-in a few hands later for 83,500 and found PokerStars Team Pro Marcin Horecki pushing behind him. Coutinho was behind again with to Horecki's but he managed to spike a queen on the 
board.
Couutinho now has 170,000 while Horecki is a short stack with just 85,000.
Joao De Silva pushed all-in for 160,000 after an early position raise to 16,000 from Janos Toth. Behind him, Marco Leonzio made the call and Toth folded quickly.
De Silva:
Leonzio: 
The flop gave De Silva hope when it came 
and improved with chop possibilities on the 
turn but the river was the 
. Leonzio surviving a big sweat to boost his stack to 720,000. De Silva is on de rail.
Patrick Carron open-shoved from the cutoff into Fabrizio Ascari's big blind. "Yes! Yes yes! Number one!" shouted Ascari, and then asked the dealer, "How many chips?" before the action had even got around to him. In the small blind, chip leader Toby Lewis announced a call.
"I see my card now," Ascari told the table. Then, "I pass." He flashed the .
On their backs, and Carron was in trouble.
Carron: 
Lewis:
Board:
"I had king-eight, once," lamented another player, but no-one seemed particularly to care. Carron was busto and Lewis was up to what looked like almost a million in chips.
Ascari continued to needle Lewis, who calmly but completely ignored him. "Number one," Ascari said, giving up on Lewis and turning to us at the rail. "Not for the table. For a few minutes."
With that cryptic adieu from Ascari, we retreated from the table.
