Meir Dahan just increased his stack over the quarter million mark after a big river gave him an Ace-high flush and an opportunity to raise Georgios Manousos Sotiropoulos. The board was standing and Dahan raised the final bet from 13,900 to a straight 60,000. The pot before this point was less than 36,000 so this river action had the attention of the entire table. After a bit of a think, Dahan got what he wanted - a call and muck when he showed .
Halldor Sverrisson is the latest casualty of the day, all-in preflop with against Simon Johannessen's , he must have been happy with the flop and turn of a but the river was a the cowboy he didn't want to see.
An incredibly relieved Johannessen is up to 160,000.
Vyacheslav Goryachev has just doubled up after his survived a mighty sweat with against the of Joacim Ando. The board coming a possible outdrawing funathon of . Goryachev is up to 52,000, Ando drops to 47,000.
Michael Tureniec has further extended his chip lead - and once again the chips came out of the stack of the luckless Michael Aron.
Tureniec made the opening raise only to have Aron reraise to 15,500. Everybody else got out of their way before Tureniec made it 32,600; back to Aron who made it 75,000; and then back again to Tureniec, who announced all in to cover him. Aron folded and looked terribly frustrated - he's down to 190,000, roughly what he started the day with. Tureniec meanwhile is head and shoulders above the rest of the field on 575,000.
Daniel Pettersen, buoyed up by that earlier set spike all in, has been a little busy recently. It looked like he was heading for another on=their-backs moment when he four-bet Charles McIntyre preflop, but having committed 14,100, McIntyre eventually decided to pass to Pettersen's 31k bet.
PokerStars qualifier Mark Hirleman just got a little bit of luck after he called Mikkel Madsen's push with . Madsen turned over a dominating but cried out, "Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!" when the flop came .
The turn and river made houses for both but Hirleman's came with an extra bedroom ergo it was bigger.
Michael Tureniec, the former EPT London runner-up, has galloped up the leaderboard after picking up two 100,000 pots in quick succession winning flips.
First his flipped against a short stack's and held before a couple of hands later he held and binked against Sonny Sareen's on a .
Thomas Kremser (who is not actually here) has a bet against TD Kevin on the chip leader at the end of the day being a Swede, it's looking good so far...