Fernando Brito is down to just about 15,000 after losing a skirmish with Martins Adeniya. The Portuguese player, currently leading for EPT Player of the Year, checked the turn of a board with around 13,000 already in the pot only to fold sharpish went Adeniya threw out 20,000 to set him all-in.
Dominykas Karmazinas moved all-in for his final 9,450 over the top of a raise from Silvio Buratti, it was passed back to Buratti, the Italian quickly calling with against Karmazinas, who finished 3rd in Monte Caro last year. For his part, the Lithuanian turned over but was unable to spike on a board of .
Daniel Haglund raised to 1,300 and got a call from Antonio Maranzano before Antoine Saout shoved for his last 6,600 from the button. We're not sure whether Haglund flat-called or reraised to isolate as we were distracted briefly by action at another table, but either way when we returned Maranzano had folded and Saout and Haglund were on their backs.
Saout:
Haglund:
Board: bink!
Saout more than doubled to around 16,000, still pretty precarious with the blinds now going to 400/800/75.
Henrique "Hat Pro" Pinho is no more. We understand that most of the damage was done when his flush proved no good against another player's quads. He exited shortly afterwards, and today's lone Portuguese Team PokerStars Pro will not be returning for Day 2.
An initially interesting hand fizzled into not very much when Primoz Adamie opened under the gun for 1,300 and got called by his neighbour Daniel Drescher; they saw a flop and Drescher called another 2,400 from Adamie. But this is where the nothingness begins: they both backed off and just checked down the turn and river, and Adamie turned over to take the pot.
Adamie is up to over 20,000 and looking a bit less precarious now; most of Drescher's fine work in the previous reported hand was undone, and he is back down almost to what he started the day with, on 32,000.
Daniel Drescher raised to 1,400, Kevin Vandermissen three-bet to 3,900 from the big blind and Drescher called. The flop was and Vandermissen bet 3,600 and Drescher called. The turn was the and Vandermissen bet 5,300; after a short little think Drescher moved all-in and Vandermissen folded instantly.
We are not sure EPT San remo is going to see much more of Ludovic Lacay. He just moved all in from the small blind with his last 10,000 holding the mighty . He didn't get any callers and picked up the blinds and antes.
By the by, we found out what happened to Viktor Blom. It turns out that he was all in with for the nut straight and a redraw to a flush on the turn of a board where the flop read with one club on it, and the turn was a second club. His opponent was holding for two pair, and hit a third on the river to make a full house. GG, Mr. Blom.
Kenny Hallaert, Mario Adinolfi, former EPT London winner Aaron Gustavson and Manig Loeser are all so super confident in their abilities that they've actually decided to retire from the tournament early tonight.