We caught up with Anthony Roux betting out a chunky 8,500 from early position on the river of a 
board. Woefully for him, John O'Shea in the hijack made the call and Roux had to turn his cards over first - 
- and O'Shea's 
for two pair was good enough to take the pot.
They're on around 45,000 apiece now, but they're moving in opposite directions.
Barny Boatman continues to motor along quite nicely picking up enough small pots to keep him in the race as this hand proves. There was a raise under-the-gun to 1,300 and it folded around to Boatman who just called from the big blind.
Flop: 
and both players checked.
Turn: 
and the player under-the-gun made it 1,100 and Boatman made the call.
River: and they both checked. Boatman 
Opponent 
Csaba Solyom is not letting Lex Veldhuis (two to his left) mess up his plans for new-table domination. Although he has the chip leader on there too, he's getting involved in several pots, mainly, it seems, against Veldhuis.
Most recently they saw a heads up flop of 
(the pot had been raised and presumably threebet in position by Veldhuis). Out fired Solyom for 6,950, which was promptly raised to 17,700 by Veldhuis. It only made it back one more time across the table, as the big stack (surely signifying all in) Solyom pushed over the line was enough to get a near instafold from the Dutch live wire and a mutter of something like, "Just this time."
Solyom up to 125k while Veldhuis loses all his profit of the last half hour.
Level: 8
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 75
Piotr Majewski is down to half a starting stack after paying off a chunky river bet and finding the button bettor with 
on a board of 
. He mucked shaking his head and can't be delighted that the blinds have just gone up to 400/800 when he's now playing 15,400.
Majewski, incidentally, is part of the blogging fraternity, doing so in Polish at tournaments Europwide, and qualified for this one online swapping the pen and paper for the continually riffling stack of chips.
Several members of the press have crossed the line into permanent fixtures at the felt, including journalist and triple crown winner Roland de Wolfe, and Michel Abecassis (who apparently briefly edited Elle magazine). We learn something new every day.
As familiar names go in poker, Spanish online qualifier Santiago Terrazas isn't exactly quite A-list, but he's almost as much an EPT fixture as TD Thomas Kremser. Barely an EPT goes by when we don't find him lurking in the field somewhere, and more often than not he's still lurking there in the latter stages of the tournament - most notably he finished third at EPT Barcelona last year for €300,000 and narrowly missed out on a second EPT final table when he finished 10th at the inaugural EPT Vilamoura a few months later.
We just now caught a small hand which didn't quite go Terrazas' way. He opened for 1,600 in the cutoff and the gentleman in the big blind gave him a suspicious look before calling and then checking the 
flop. Terrazas bet 2,500, but the big blind gentleman now check-raised to 6,000 and Terrazas gave it up with a little grimace.
Nevertheless Terrazas is still on around 80,000 after that, and doesn't look to be going anywhere any time soon.
Nicolas Levi has just doubled up and this is how it happened.
Levi opened for 1,600 from the hijack and received calls from the cut off, button, small and big blinds. The flop was 
and out of nowhere Pink Panther music came out of the speakers. There were a few laughs from around the table but not from Levi who threw out a bet of 2,700. He received a call from the cut-off and the rest of the players folded.
The turn was and Levi made it 6,125 and again the cut-off called. The river was the 
and Levi put his remaining 14,125 in the middle and the cut-off called. Levi showed 
and his opponent mucked his cards face down. After the Dealer called for someone from the floor to attend the cut-off's hands were turned over to show the rest of the table 
.
By the time we got to the table, the chips were in the middle and the cards were on their backs.
Jake Cody:
All-in gentleman:
Board: 
The newly busted gentleman sat there for a few moments, before leaving without a word. Cody watched him go, mouth agape. The coldness of the exiting gentleman was rather spoiled when he had to come back to collect his sweater a moment later though.
EPT Deauville and WPT London champion Cody is back up to 34,000.
Young UK player Charlie Combes has busted Marc Sander despite not being particularly stacked chipwise himself. He showed himself unwilling to be pushed off by a post-flop move made by Sander (and willing to get a bit of a gamble on at this late stage of Day 1A to build a stack)...
Preflop Combes raised to 1,850 first to act.
"Under the gun?" queried big blind Sander, before shrugging, saying, "You never know..." and making the call.
The flop came 
; "Check," said Sander. Combes fired 3,425 and Sander quickly moved all-in for about 13k. He got a quick shrug-call.
Combes: 
Sander: 
The open ended straight draw was good as Queen-Jack high, and Sander was up and out the door before the turn and river really had time to breathe face-up.
Another significant pot for Nicolas Levi has started to catapult him up that leaderboard.
A player from middle position who seems to have been having a massage for the past hour opened for 2,000 and Levi made the call from the button. The flop of 
didn't deter our massage man as he made a bet of 5,400 and Levi again cool as a cucumber (with a cool hat on) made the call. The dealer laid the river on the board at exactly the same time that the massage woman started kneaded the initial raisers head. It must have affected him because he checked. Levi was not having any of it and made a value bet of 11,000 and his opponent made the call before quietly mucking his hand and returning to his massage after Levi showed him .
Levi now has 83,000.
