The additions of Rocco Palumbo and Ariel Celestino have increased the number of participants from Italy and Brazil to three each.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
250,000
250,000
|
250,000 |
|
250,000
250,000
|
250,000 |
Ivan Luca raised to 5,000 to start the action. Martin Jacobson called from middle position, and Mike Watson called from the small blind. Anton Bertilsson then squeezed to 22,000 from the big blind, and only his fellow Swede, Jacobson, called.
On the 
flop, Bertilsson continued for 20,000 and was called before he fired a second barrel worth 43,000 on the 
turn. Jacobson folded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
635,000
55,000
|
55,000 |
|
226,000
24,000
|
24,000 |
On the turn of a 
board, Joao Vieira check-raised his German opponent, Christoph Vogelsang, to 21,200 after Vogelsang bet 8,000. Vogelsang called.
The river was the 
, and Vieira led for 44,000. Vogelsang let a big grin come across his face as he contemplated making the call. He eventually slid out the chips to do just that, to which Vieira tabled the 
for ace-high. Vogelsang showed pocket queens with the 
, and he won the pot.
"It was 50-50," Vogelsang said afterwards.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
405,000
160,000
|
160,000 |
|
44,000
106,000
|
106,000 |
|
||
The action folded around to Felix Bleiker and he raised to 5,000 from the button. Niall Farrell then reraised to 18,000 from the small blind. Kyle Frey was sitting in the big blind, and he leaned over and asked Farrell how much chips he started the hand with. Once he got the answer, Frey then four-bet to 39,000. It was folded back to Farrell and after some consideration the Scot moved all in. Frey quickly called, and the cards were on their backs.
Farrell had the 
, and Frey had the 
.
The showed up right in the window and Farrell held from there to allow the EPT Season12 Malta Main Event champion to double up for 169,900. The complete board ran out 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
350,000
185,000
|
185,000 |
|
||
|
85,000
195,000
|
195,000 |
On a flop of 
, Dario Sammartino check-called Bryn Kenney's bet of 6,200. Sammartino then led for 8,300 on the 
turn card, and Kenney called.
The two players saw the 
land on the river, and both players checked. Sammartino tabled the 
, and his two pair was good enough to take down the pot. Kenney mucked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
271,000
21,000
|
21,000 |
|
245,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
There is still no seat open, but another three players have entered the competition; Kevin MacPhee, Sergey Lebedev, and Rafael da Silva Moraes are all in the field now.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
250,000
250,000
|
250,000 |
|
|
||
|
250,000
250,000
|
250,000 |
|
250,000
250,000
|
250,000 |
Sam Greenwood raised to 5,000 from the button, and Mustapha Kanit squeezed to 16,000 from one seat over. Greenwood then clicked it up to 40,000, and Kanit moved all in to enforce a fold.
One hand later, Kanit raised the button and called a three-bet by Daniel Dvoress from one seat over. On the flop of 
, Dvoress continued for 15,000 and was called before he fired a second barrel worth 33,000 on the turn. Again, Kanit didn't go anywhere.
The landed on the river, and Dvoress fired 82,000. That was for more than half the stack of the Canadian, yet Kanit called and showed the winning 
. Dvoress was bluffing until the turn and had only found a pair of tens on the river with his 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
500,000
250,000
|
250,000 |
|
|
||
|
131,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
||
|
60,000
135,000
|
135,000 |
|
|
||
Luuk Gieles raised to 5,000 from the hijack seat, and Joao Vieira moved all in for 41,500 from one seat over. The rest of the table got out of the way, and Gieles called to put his opponent at risk in a coin flip.
Vieira had the best hand with the 
, but his edge was only a small one against the 
for Gieles.
The 
flop saw Vieira improve to a set. The 
turn and 
river changed nothing, and Vieira, the Portuguese pro, doubled up his short stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
202,000
108,000
|
108,000 |
|
|
90,000
46,000
|
46,000 |
|
|
||
Preflop, Ivan Luca opened to 4,700 with blinds at 1,000/2,000. He was three-bet by Andre Akkari to 13,000 on the button. Luca called and both players saw a flop of 
. Luca check-called a bet of 16,000 and then led for 65,000 on the turn. Akkari made the call, and the 
was dealt on the river.
First, Luca tanked, then he checked. Akkari also checked, and Luca tabled the for a pair of queens. His hand was narrowly beaten by Akkari, who held pocket kings with the 
, and the Brazilian won the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
261,000
116,000
|
116,000 |
|
||
|
65,000
90,000
|
90,000 |
The title says it all, the players have been sent on their second break of the day.
