Toni Ojala raised preflop from the button with 
and Oscar Teran moved all-in from the small blind. Ojala made the call.
Ojala:
Teran: 
The flop had Ojala drawing dead when it came 
and with the 
and 
river meaningless, Ojala has been knocked down to less than 200,000 as Teran doubled up.
By the by, as we head into the second level of the day, popular French Team PokerStars Pro Arnaud Mattern has lurched into the lead on 1.75 million.
As we mentioned yesterday, Mattern is the sole remaining EPT champion in the field - he took down the EPT Prague Main Event back in 2007 for over one million of your American dollars, and has been an extremely prominent and popular figure on the circuit ever since.
As we have so often reported, no-one has ever won two EPT titles before - but Mattern is running well and not missing a trick so far this week, and there is a distinct possibility that by the end of tomorrow Mattern will have a reason to celebrate twice as hard. Watch this space...
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,750,000
350,000
|
350,000 |
|
||
|
1,690,000
110,000
|
110,000 |
|
1,434,000
108,000
|
108,000 |
|
1,140,000
268,000
|
268,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
712,000
360,000
|
360,000 |
|
|
664,000
386,000
|
386,000 |
|
|
||
|
640,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
|
599,000
288,000
|
288,000 |
|
541,000
13,000
|
13,000 |
|
510,000
31,000
|
31,000 |
|
|
||
|
497,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
|
467,000
63,000
|
63,000 |
|
|
||
|
393,000
107,000
|
107,000 |
|
306,000
19,000
|
19,000 |
|
295,000
24,000
|
24,000 |
|
|
280,000
101,000
|
101,000 |
|
264,000
108,000
|
108,000 |
|
|
256,000
56,000
|
56,000 |
|
249,000
11,000
|
11,000 |
Level: 22
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 2,000
Players are now on the first break of the day.
While we were watching the raising war between Bassam Elnajjar and Anatoli Jevtejev over on the other table, Matvey Linov had gone all in. Dmitry Vitkind seemed interested, but in the end it was Toni Ojala who reshoved from the small blind.
On their backs.
Linov: 
Ojala: 
Board: 
"I was hoping you'd do something," said Ojala to Vitkind, who revealed he'd had pocket eights meaning that Vitkind had been in much more trouble than he could have imagined. Either way, Linov hit the rail just as the other players headed off to the break.
Bassam Elnajjar opened for 38,000 under the gun but a couple seats down Anatoli Jevtejev re-popped to 80,000. Everyone else ducked out of the way, and the action was back on Elnajjar. He made it 178,000 to go. And then back to Jevtejev, who, after some brief deliberation, went all in for 395,000.
Elnajjar sat back in his chair and thought about it for a long time - enough time for our 20th place finisher to bust out on the next table, and the clock to count down into the break. Eventually though he folded, and Jevtejev took the pot without the trouble of a showdown.
Despite having trebled up to nearly seven big blinds soon after being crippled, Matvey Linov is not exactly full awake. He just thought he was given a walk and showed 
to everyone, but what he hadn't realised was that Dmitry Vitkind had in fact raised to 36,000 and Linov had actually just open-folded his hand.
Vitkind showed 
though to leave Linov wondering what might have been.
Igor Ivashkiv opened to 34,000, and on his left, Matvey Linov three-bet to 85,000. When it folded back to him, Ivashkiv moved all in for a total of 85,000. Linov was stumped and spent a few minutes thinking before deciding to call, and he was immediately pleased with his decision. Ivashkiv had been making a move with 
, so Linov's was in the lead. He had a big smile when the door card was an ace, but the 
flop left Ivashkiv with outs. And the 
turn gave him a few more. Linov's two pair had to dodge a king, nine, or eight to eliminate Ivashkiv. But the river was the 
. Ivashkiv banged the table and gave a fist pump before standing in the corner with his face a few inches from the wall to compose himself. Linov was visibly frustrated, but kept his composure as he sat back down and slid nearly all of his chips to Ivashkiv. Linov was left with 32,000.
Arnaud Mattern opened to 38,000 from the cutoff and Antti Kärkkäinen pushed all-in on the button for 160,000 more. Mattern gave it about 30 seconds and then made the call.
Mattern:
Kärkkäinen: 
The board came a Mattern-favouring 
and his solitary pair of sixes was good enough to knock out the long-haired Finn.
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