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.
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...
Carlo Bordogna lost a big 900,000 pot to Kevin Stani when Bordogna pushed from the blinds with against Stani's button raise and got a quick call from the Norwegian's and the board favoured the latter coming .
Bordogna was crippled and shoved the next hand with in the small blind and got an immediate call from Konstantin Bilyaver in the big blind holding .
Again the board didn't help the Italian when it came meaning there are just 18 left.
Anatoli Jevtejev limped his small blind, and in the big blind, Arnaud Mattern raised to 45,000. Jevtejev quickly reraised to around 150,000, but before the bet could be counted, Mattern had announced all in and Jevtejev had called for a total of about 550,000. Time for showdown.
Jevtejev:
Mattern:
Mattern hung his head at the flop, but he perked up a little as the turn gave him flush outs. And right on time, the appeared on the river to make Arnaud a four-flush and send Jevtejev on his way. Mattern furthered his chip lead and became the first player to cross the two-million mark. He's currently on 2.3.
Action folded to Vallo Maidla in the cutoff, and he open-shoved for about 245,000. On the button, Simone Falorni called all in. The blinds folded, and they turned over their hands to see it was a traditional race. Maidla's needed to hit against Falorni's . The flop didn't change anything. Then the on the turn switched the hand to Maidla's favor. The river was no help to Falorni, and he made his exit in 17th place.
With his bust, the players will redraw to two eight-handed tables, though they'll have to wait for two big hands currently in progress on each of the other tables.
When Simone Falorni busted out in 17th place, that meant that it was time for a redraw. But before that could happen, it would be all change in the stack sizes on at least one of the other tables.
First up, Konstantin Bilyaver raised to 46,000 under the gun only for Johan Storakers - who's suffered some dreadful luck so far today - to shove from the button. Back around to Bilyaver who thought about it for some time. Eventually he called.
Storakers was dominating with up against Bilyaver's and in great shape to double up, but Storaker's bad luck continued as the board came down to chop the pot. It was better than busting out, but not much - Storakers looked heartbroken and remained a short stack as the new players joined the table.
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Over on the other table, Steven van Zadelhoff was in the process of doubling through chip leader Arnaud Mattern.
Mattern:
Van Zadelhoff:
Board:
Van Zadelhoff doubled to 670,000 and looked much happier about things as they broke the table. Mattern didn't look particularly bothered about any of this - on over 2 million after that, he remains the chip leader as we go to two tables.
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and Oscar Teran moved all-in from the small blind. Ojala made the call.
and with the 
and 
river meaningless, Ojala has been knocked down to less than 200,000 as Teran doubled up.
against Stani's button raise and got a quick call from the Norwegian's 
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in the small blind and got an immediate call from Konstantin Bilyaver in the big blind holding 
.
turn gave him flush outs. And right on time, the 
appeared on the river to make Arnaud a four-flush and send Jevtejev on his way. Mattern furthered his chip lead and became the first player to cross the two-million mark. He's currently on 2.3.
river was no help to Falorni, and he made his exit in 17th place.
