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Shiraz Soltaninassab, sitting on under 400,000, moved all in preflop over a raise from Andrew Li (who'd made it 63,000, probably). Li quickly called, and they were on their backs, Soltaninassab with a dominated 
to Li's 
.
There was no help for the all-in player on the 
board, and we're down to 14 players.
The two table stage always brings a hush to the rail and a certain tension to proceedings, with a lot riding on every decision. Even the smaller pots feel important somehow, so here's what's been happening on the outer table:
Eugene Yanayt called a small-blind raise from Andrey Danilyuk in the big blind, following it up with another call of his 82,000 bet on the 
flop. When Danilyuk checked the 
turn, Yanayt took the pot with a bet of 140,000.
Shortly thereafter, Alessandro Limblici took a turn as preflop raiser (66,000), bringing along only the big blind Tamas Lendvai to the 
flop. Lendvai check-called 67,000 on the flop, and then another 119,000 on the 
turn. When Lendvai checked the 
river, Limblici quickly checked behind showing the 
. Lendvai won the pot with 
.
Meanwhile, action on the non-feature table has been slow. The hand of greatest note in the past 15 minutes or so was that when Ankush Mandavia shoved from the cutoff. Tamas Lendvai in the big blind asked how much it was - answer: around 500,000 - and tanked for a while. Mandavia asked him what he had in a suspiciously cheerful and confident voice. "I got a pair," Lendvai told him.
"Pairs are good," said Mandavia; again, rather too confident for a potential caller's liking.
Eventually he folded. Mandavia asked him if he'd had fives. Lendvai claimed sixes.
We have zero access to the feature table and for some reason we are not allowed audio on our live feed; in addition the TV guys seem to have stopped filming the cards or at least letting us see them. This is a real shame because there's been a lot of action up there. We apologise for the lack of details, but here is what we could ascertain:
- Pedro Pellicer doubled through Ivan Freitez. We believe the chips went in on the turn, Pellicer holding 
and Freitez holding 
.
- Dag Palovic doubled through Andrew Li. We have no idea what either player was holding, but we can tell you that Palovic looked extremely relieved at the end of the hand. The perpetually cheerful Li never once stopped smiling.
Team PokerStars Pro Dag Palovic has doubled up through his teammate Alex Gomes, we did not see the board (it occured on the feature table) but Palovic had 
against Gomes' 
and held to double to about the half million mark.
Alessandro Limblici thought he was in the big blind and accidentally limped under the gun, Andrey Danilyuk raised to 61,000 and Limblici decided that he may as well call the raise now as well.
The flop came 
and the Italian checked it across to Danilyuk - who bet 72,000. Limblici moved all in and got pretty quick fold from his opponent.
Limblici picked up the next pot as well, calling a raise in the big blind with 
against Torsten Brinkmann's UTG raise. Both players checked the 
flop before Limblici check-called a 65,000 on the 
turn, the river was checked down and Limblici had rivered Brinkmann's .
Short stacked Domantas Klimciauskas raised when it folded to him in the small blind (simply pushing out a 100k stack to augment his 12,000 small blind), and Eugene Yanayt set him all in (c.400,000). He shrug-called, making a stand with the unfortunately-not-even-fully-l ive 
. Yanayt showed , which held as the board emerged 
.
| Seat | Name |
|---|---|
| Table 1 | |
| 1 | Shiraz Soltaninassab |
| 2 | Alex Gomes |
| 3 | Simon Higgins |
| 4 | Dag Palovic |
| 5 | Ivan Freitez |
| 6 | Juan Maceiras |
| 7 | Andrew Li |
| 8 | Pedro Pellicer |
| Table 2 | |
| 1 | Alessandro Limblici |
| 2 | Tirsten Brinkmann |
| 3 | Ankush Mandavia |
| 4 | Andrey Danilyuk |
| 5 | Domantas Klimciauskas |
| 6 | Eugene Yanayt |
| 7 | Tamas Lendvai |
| 8 | Thomas Pettersson |
Level: 24
Blinds: 15,000/30,000
Ante: 3,000
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
2,555,000 | 155,000 |
|
2,280,000 | -220,000 |
|
2,270,000 | 370,000 |
|
2,200,000 | -200,000 |
|
2,136,000 | -14,000 |
|
|
1,533,000 | 658,000 |
|
1,348,000 | 143,000 |
|
|
1,139,000 | 95,000 |
|
1,000,000 | -230,000 |
|
760,000 | 260,000 |
|
708,000 | -397,000 |
|
700,000 | 170,000 |
|
|
670,000 | 40,000 |
|
|
628,000 | 220,000 |
|
420,000 | -595,000 |
|
302,000 | 2,000 |
