Erich Kollmann and Jake Cody like pocket kings a lot as they both used them to double-up as the second level of the day came to an end.
Anton Ionel raised to 3,200 and called when Kollmann three-bet to 10,000. The flop came down and Ionel check-called a 30,000 c-bet from the Austrian. The turn came and Kollmann continued to fast play his hand as he shoved for 56,500 when his Romanian checked again.
Ionel tanked for a while and said, "I can't beat your kings" before he called with . Kollmann did indeed have and survived the river.
Moments later Cody three-bet all-in for 22,000 with after Patrick Van Dijk opened to 2,200 with . The Dutch online phenomenon called but failed to catch up through the board.
Well, it's not been a good day for Juan Maceiras. He began play with nearly 100,000 chips, but he's run out of them here in the second level of the day. He had been worked down around 15,000 when he got the rest of his money in good with . Daniel Rauta looked him up with , and a third seven on the flop was all she wrote for Maceiras.
The board ran out , and we've lost another of our Spaniards here in Madrid.
Mathew Frankland is among the chip leaders after he won a couple of big pots, the first against Dominik Nitsche when he rivered a straight and the second when he knocked out Martins Adeniya. The latter called down all three streets with only to have been coolered by Frankland's .
Have a gander at another round of photos from the intrepid Neil Stoddart, who took a short break from juggling a football in the media room to shoot these for us.
Dominik Nitsche opened to 2,400 from the cutoff and Javier Etayo made the call on the button before Mathew Frankland raised to 7,200 in the big blind. Nitsche folded but Etayo made the call to see a flop of .
Frankland fired out 9,400 but Etayo made it 25,100, Frankland then raised to 45,700 and Etayo flat-called to see the on the turn. Now Frankland moved all and Etayo snap-called.
Frankland, "You've got a set?"
Etayo:
Frankland:
The river was the and Etayo has won the biggest pot of the tournament so far to put him in the chip lead.
and Ionel check-called a 30,000 c-bet from the Austrian. The turn came 
and Kollmann continued to fast play his hand as he shoved for 56,500 when his Romanian checked again.
. Kollmann did indeed have 
and survived the 
river.
. The Dutch online phenomenon called but failed to catch up through the 
board.
. Daniel Rauta looked him up with 
, and a third seven on the flop was all she wrote for Maceiras.
on the turn. Now Frankland moved all and Etayo snap-called.
and Etayo has won the biggest pot of the tournament so far to put him in the chip lead.
