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Polish Team PokerStars Pro Marcin Horecki had a bit of a cold deck disaster just before the break. He found pocket kings and improved to a set on the 
flop against one opponent. The chips all went in on the raggy turn, and Horecki discovered that his oponent had flopped a set of aces.
"He might have had ace-king..." he reasoned afterwards, but speculation couldn't alter the fact that he was left with just 5,000 chips.
Putting names to faces for your viewing pleasure.
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
There will now follow a short intermission as the players head off for 15 minutes to get some goulash soup, stretch their legs in the frosty afternoon air of the park or just hover outside smoking cigarettes. We'll be right back.
All of the players have started to leave their tables and head for their much earned 15 minute break. In between the empty tables and scattering earphone clad people, Ruben Visser stares deep into his opponent. We catch up to the action on the turn. The board is 
and the recipient of the Visser stare has just bet 1,500 on the turn of the . Visser makes the call and his eyes do not leave his opponent for a second. The river is the 
and this time Visser's opponent makes it 2,000. For a second Visser's eyes leave his opponent flick to the and straight back to his opponent before making the call.
Visser's opponent shows 
for a rivered top pair. Visser's stare now turns from a concentrated fact finding stare to a stare of disgust before throwing his two cards into the muck. Ruben Visser heads off to the break with a stack of 24,475.
A tough break results in a deck change now as Dominik Nitsche turns the second nuts (top full house) into a very chunky pot much to the chagrin of his opponent. It turns out that the turn was the crucial card, and not the fourth heart river; the eventual board stood 
and after said opponent checked, Nitsche bet 7,500.
This was into a pot which already had a couple of 5k chips floating in it - and his opponent called as soon as the bet hit the table. He shook his head showing 
for the flopped full house, which was now crushed by Nitsche's 
for a turned one.
Clearly not happy that his set mine had collapsed around him he chatted to a neighbour on the next table before taking his frustration out on the next hand dealt to him which he scrunched up and threw at the dealer before standing up and pacing back and forth (now did not seem an opportune moment to ask his name). With consummate professionalism the dealer called for a deck change without batting an eyelid while the table waited patiently (it was preflop with the deal midway). The sad lay crushed on the table while Nitsche continued to stack his 45,000 chips.
Over at table 15 we have Team Pokerstars Pro Alexander Kravchenko. So how is he doing? His chip stack has just got a little shorter and is now down to `34,000 after this hand.
The player in seat one limped in and the player in seat two made the raise to 600. The player in the button called and Kravchenko made it four to the flop when he called in the small blind. The flop was 
and all four players checked. The dealer gave us a and Kravchenko looking as cool as they come, in his shades and black jacket, made it 1,300 to play. The bet did little to scare anyone away as all three of the remaining players in the hand called. The river was the 
Kravchenko checked and the player in seat one threw three red chips into the middle making it 3,000 to play and everyone folded. The winning player turned over 
to show a rivered full house.
John O'Shea has made the trip to Vienna to see if he can follow up on his impressive deep run at EPT London where he finished in 17th place for a cash prize of £21,000. He has found himself sat at table 21 and he shares it with the likes of Marcus Naalden and Anthony Roux.
We caught up with getting involved in a few hands. In hand 1, O'Shea opened from the button to 400 and got a call from the player in the small blind. The flop was 
and they both checked. The turn was 
and the small blind made a bet of 750 forcing the fold from O'Shea.
In the second hand there was an open from early position followed by a call and O'Shea made the squeeze from the cut-off making it 1,150 to play. Both players came along for the ride and a flop of 
. The players in early position both checked the action over to O'Shea who made a bet of 1,300 to take down the pot and the chips that he had lost in hand 1.
Fabrizio Ascari, who single-handedly upped the volume at EPT Vilamoura until his demise in 10th place, has been relatively quiet so far today. his stack being hard to count due to its mixing up into stripes of hundreds and thousands with the occasional yellow 5k. He's down from his starting 30k, however, another few heading to an under-the-gun raiser who'd made it 325 to play preflop, only to bet 600 on the 
flop and get an immediate check-fold from Ascari.
His track record (mainly in Italy, with the occasional foreign flourish) certainly has a fair few final tables in it, although new to the EPT circuit his final-table bubble performance is the closest he's come to a title so far.
Although the gentlemen in question are as yet unidentified (and tucked in a corner) this situation was attention-grabbing as showdowns in pots of around 15,000 always are at this early stage. The betting grew heavy on a 
board, with 3,100 being check-called by the big blind. Big Blind also checked when the board double paired, suited up, and otherwise got even scarier with the river - back came a bet of 3,575 which took a long time before it was finally called. The 
flipped over but were soon flipped back face-down as the caller had hit a flush with his 
and was not to be dislodged.
