Before registration had closed, two more players had signed up. PokerStars Team Pro Jason Mercier and Canadian pro Ami Barer received 50,000 to start the day. That brings Day 1 (247 uniques + 56 re-entries) and Day 2 (5 more uniques + 7 re-entries) to a total of 315 entries. Prize pool to follow shortly.
On a board of 
we witnessed Bertrand Grospellier check from the small blind. Alex Bilokur made a bet of 20,500 from the big blind and Tom-Aksel Bedell tanked for some time before he called from the button. Grospellier hesitated for quite some time but eventually decided to fold. Bilokur confidently showed 
for the flopped straight. Bedell tabled 
for the backdoor flush and took down the pot.
[Removed:17] started short today but had worked up his stack, only to bust just now to Dietrich Fast. Yan opened under the gun and got a call before Dietrich Fast in late position squeezed to 16,000. Yan four-bet to 33,000 and called Fast's shove pretty quickly.
[Removed:17]: 
Dietrich Fast: 
The board ran out 
sending Yan packing. Fast now one of the bigger stacks in the room.
We just picked up the action on a 
flop when Dylan Linde was all in for 27,900 chips from the big blind against two opponents. The action was on Artem Metalidi, in early position, and he had 7,600 invested when he decided to call Linde's shove.
Senh Ung, the third player involved, sat on the button with 7,600 invested and he opted to make the call as well.
Linde patiently awaited his fate as the hand was checked down between Metalidi and Ung on the 
turn and the river.
Linde showed 
, Metalidi showed 
and Ung mucked, meaning the pot would get split between the two king-ten hands.
"Ok," Linde said with a hint of surprise in his voice, "I'll take it."
"Not bad," he later added, as he profited nicely on the hand despite only chopping the pot.
Stanislav Kozlovskyi just raised under the gun to 5,000 and Ramin Hajiyev, who busted the Main Event yesterday and finish third in the €25,500 Single Day High Roller, three-bet to 14,000 under the gun plus two. The action folded back to Kozlovskyi and he moved all in, prompting a call from Hajiyev for about 50,000 chips. Kozlovskyi called.
Kozlovskyi:
Hajiyev: 
The board ran out 
and Hajiyev's tournament ended in the first level of Day 2.
Stevan Chew opened for 4,000 from the cutoff and PokerStars Team Pro Vanessa Selbst made the call from the button. Rasmus Agerskov in the big blind called as well and checked on 
. Chew bet 3,500 and Selbst folded, Agerskov called. Agerskov check called another 7,500 on the turn before both players checked the on the river. Agerskov showed 
but was beat by Chew's .
Gleb Kovtunov moved in under the gun for his last 14,400 and Stephen Chidwick in middle position reshoved for approximately 50,000 - the stack he started the day with. Action folded around and the two were heads up.
Stephen Chidwick:
Gleb Kovtunov: 
The board read 
and with quads Kovtunov doubled up.
Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree was just caught in a pot from the under-the-gun position against Vladimir Troyanovskiy in the big blind. The flop showed 
when the Russian pro check-called a bet of 5,500 and the turn brought the 
.
Troyanovskiy checked again after which the former EPT San Remo champion bet 14,000.
After a while Troyanovskiy moved all in to put Boeree at risk, and she called immediately for a total of 37,000.
Boeree's face turned as she saw her opponent turn over 
for two pair, and her were in trouble.
On the river however, the 
hit and Boeree let out the slightest squeal, followed by a big smile as she managed to double up. Boeree raked in the pot and she's now in great shape with about 90,000 chips.
Level: 11
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
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