Among those to bust recently were Mike Watson, Davidi Kitai, Mike McDonald and Salman Behbehani. For the latter, there was some reason to celebrate last night after picking up a trophy in a €5,000 Side Event for more than €92,000.
Watson was left very short after losing a flip with ace-queen versus jacks to Alexander Timokhin and busted straight after.
In the very last hand of the previous level, Adrian Mateos raised to 4,500 and Zvi Stern min-clicked to 7,900 from one seat over. The action folded to Quan Zhou in the big blind and he four-bet to 26,500. Mateos quickly folded, Stern asked for the stack size of his opponent and eventually folded.
Zhou showed 
and Stern grinned back. The November Niner is up to 400,000 chips and Enrico Coppola has about as much one table over. The Italian called a bet worth 5,200 by Javier Zarco on the 
turn before check-folding the 
river to another bet of 12,500.
Level: 12
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 300
Short Stacked Peruvian Diego Ventura got it all in with the 
.
Christopher Frank had a pair of first names, but no pair, calling with the 
and doubling up Diego on a 
board.
After Anthony Zinno limped, start-of-day chip leader Niall Farrell made it 14,500.
Jason Wheeler wasted little time moving all in behind for around 80,000 and both players folded.
A tough start for Farrell now sees him fall from the top spot on the chip counts with Enrico Coppola taking over, sitting on 360,000 a few tables over.
Peter Akery qualified through a Live Satellite but failed to transform it into a cash in the tournament. He is joined on the rail by Adnan Chamaa, Tobias Reinkemeier, €50,000 Single-Day Super High Roller fourth place finisher Murad Akhundov, Timofey Kuznetsov and Andrei Konopelko.
One of the new players that doesn't have an ID showing made it 9,100 to go out of the small blind and Andrey Pateychuk then reraised to 22,500 out of the big blind. The small blind squeezed to 37,700 and was called by the Russian. After a ten-high flop, the Russian faced a bet worth 27,700 and let go to drop some of his big stack.
Gleb Tremzin bought into the tournament before the start of Day 2, but only lasted about half an hour. He got it in with 
and Ben Heath looked him up with the 
to see the board run out blank 
.
Another Russian has also been sent to the rail in Aleksei Platonov.
Among the next casualties were Igor Kurganov, Daniel Cates, John Juanda, Emil Patel and Liv Boeree.
The final numbers are still to be verified, but it looks as if there were at least 230 entries in the event.
Gleb Tremzin, Chance Kornuth and Bryn Kenney were the other three new entries for Day 2 with Kornuth and Kenney firing their second bullet. For the latter, it would only last some 15 minutes though and he was just eliminated by Yang Wang.
Wang opened to 4,500 from the hijack, Mark Teltscher flat-called from one seat over and then Kenney pushed starting stack from the button. Wang reshoved and Teltscher folded quickly.
Kenney: 
Wang: 
The door card was the 
but it was soon followed by the , letting Wang jump out of his chair with a loud "yessss". The rest of the board ran out 
and Kenney was drawing dead on the turn already, quietly leaving the tournament area.
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