Ebony Kenney has doubled up after moving all in preflop with from the small blind and Cesar Garcia Dominguez called from the big blind with but the board favoured Miss Kenney more and she's much more comfortably stacked now.
Toby Lewis' tournament has been slowly gathering pace throughout this tournament. He had a very steadily unspectacular day one, and gathered a bit more pace yesterday. It will come as no surprise to see him gallop through today.
He opened to 4,800 from the hijack and Javier "El_Cañonero" Dominguez was the only caller from the small blind. The flop fell 7,800 and Dominguez led for 7,800. Lewis took his time before raising to 23,000. The Spaniard took little time in calling to the turn where he checked. Lewis gave it a minute and bet 43,000 which forced a quick fold from his opponent.
We just walked past Table 1 and noticed a big stack of chips in front of Bruno Lopes. A count of 430,000 appears to have him in the chip lead right now. It's quite a big step up from the 186,100 he began play with an hour ago.
Lopes is much better known by his stage name, Kool Shen. A prominent figure in the French rap scene, Kool Shen has several interesting hobbies like acting, and graffiti drawing, and break dancing. And poker, obviously. Lopes is approaching $400,000 in cashes in the last few years, and he won the €5,000 Euro Finals of Poker just in January to snag his first win.
He's leading the rest of the pack right now, and it wouldn't be at all surprising to see him make a deep run this week.
Frederik Petersen peeled a raise out of the blinds from Olivier Busquet to see an flop, the Dane check-calling a 7,000 bet.
The on the turn changed little but the action went check-check and Petersen led out for 12,200 on the river, Busquet thought about it but made the fold leaving himself about 115,000 remaining - still impressive given he was down to 7,700 at 500/1,000 yesterday.
Erich Kollmann raised to 5,100 in late position, and Yury Kerzhapkin quickly three-bet shoved for 37,200. Kollmann asked for the count, but it didn't look like he had much interest in calling. As soon as he learned the number, he surrendered his cards into the muck.
One hand later, Kerzhapkin three-bet shoved again, this time for 48,000 behind a Barny Boatman open. Boatman smirked and shook his head when the action came back to him, and Kerzhapkin let him off the hook a bit. "I'll show if you fold," he said. Boatman did so promptly, and Kerzhapkin laid his out on the table.
There was one table playing a hand long into the break, and we had eyes on the action. Melanie Weisner opened the pot to 5,100 under the gun, and she found calls in two places. One of those callers was big blind Anders Andersen, and he led with the same 5,100 on the flop. Weisner flatted.
They were heads up to the turn, and now Andersen slowed back down. When it checked to Weisner, she took her cue to bet 13,500. It was several minutes before the call came, and by now, most of the room was empty.
The river came the , and Andersen checked again. Weisner had about 35,000 chips left in front of her, and she bet 25,100 of them. Andersen needed more time in the tank, another four or five minutes at least. He did eventually fold, though, and Weisner showed as she hustled off to break.
She's closing back in on the century mark in chips.