Alexios Zervos has knocked out yet another player while fellow Greek Andreas Vlachos from one table over also increased his stack as well.
Zervos raised with 
and was called by an opponent with a stack of 130,000. On the 
flop, Zervos bet, the opponent raised and the Greek then shoved with his many outs to get called by 
. The 
turn improved Zervos and a blank river locked up the hand for him.
Willliam Arruda bet 100,000 into a pot of the same size, heads up with Peter Akery, holding a stack of the same size, on a 
board to the turn.
Akery agonized over the decision for a a good while and eventually called with the 
. Arruda had the 
, and had to feel like he was about to make some big strides up the chip count board.
However, it was a case of just enough outs for Akery, and he spiked one, nailing the 
river to make trips, double up and leave Arruda quite short.
European Poker Tour Season 9 Player of the Year Jan Bendik opened to 11,500 from early position. Stephen Chidwick three bet to 33,000 from late position and Bendik made the call.
The flop came 
and Bendik checked. Chidwick made a continuation bet of 25,000 and he and Bendik eventually got it in for 129,000 each after Bendik check raised.
Bendik was the proud owner of 
while Chidwick had to do with . The 
on the turn and 
on the river were good cards for Bendik and he let out a small fist pump to celebrate his double up.
Among the first dozen casualties in the money were Max Silver, PokerStars Team Pro Jake Cody and Jack Salter, all of which collect €8,890 for their efforts.
Right after the bubble had burst, Davidi Kitai had shoved all in from the button for 60,000. Van Zadelhoff called from the big blind with 
and was up against Kitai's 
. Kitai made a straight on the turn and Van Zadelhoff dropped down to 140,000.
Not much later though, he would get all of it back, and then some.
Mike Andreassen open shoved his last 60,000 to the middle from early position and in late position Alejandro Perez Torres followed suit committing his 120,000 stack. Action folded to Steven van Zadelhoff in the big blind and the Dutchman called.
Steven van Zadelhoff: 
Mike Andreassen:
Alejandro Perez Torres:
The flop came 
, doing nothing really for anyone. The 
on the turn gave Torres a flush draw, but the 
on the river was a blank and Van Zadelhoff knocked out both of his opponents.
The chips went in preflop and Jeremy Routier found himself in great shape to double up around 120,000 chips with the . Pierre Calamusa looked him up with the 
and got there on a board of 
.
Erwann Pecheux looked up from his massage and said "it wasn't me!" while the pot was shipped to the "crazy Vietnamese" - Calamusa goes by the nickname of LeVietF0u.
After a limp and a raise to 14,000 by Dominykas Karmazinas, Evangelos Terzoudis three-bet to 45,000. The Lithuanian called and they headed to the flop of 
and Terzoudis continued for 60,000. Karmazinas shoved for 186,000 and was called to find himself in bad shape.
Karmazinas:
Terzoudis: 
Neither the 
turn nor the 
river changed anything and the Lithuanian was gone while Terzoudis is now just below 1 million in chips.
The UK's Jack Salter got it in preflop with the versus Irishman Dermot Blain's .
Kings held on a 
board and Salter said goodbye.
With short stacks shoving all around the room and a mad rush of min-cashers headed to the to the cage, fortunes change fast in the wake of the bubble on the European Poker Tour.
Team PokerStars SportsStars Fatima Moreira de Melo felt the pain of that, going into the bubble with a big stack, then finding herself on the wrong end of the set-over-set debacle reported earlier. Moments ago, she continued to slide down the counts, raising it up to 12,000 preflop, then calling off when France's Herve Boulan shipped 34.500 right behind her.
Moreira de Melo called with the 
and Boulan was racing for his tournament life, holding the .
Fours held on 
board.
Meanwhile, on the other end of the room, Greek player Evangelos Terzoudis has just been moved to a new seat after a number of short stacks hit the exit at his table and it broke. He brought more than 740,000 with him, and apparently, a spot near the top of the counts.
As we made our way to the tournament area, we ran into Jake Cody. He was standing in line to register for another tournament, so we were pretty sure he had been knocked out of the Main Event.
"I scraped into the money," said Cody, "and then shipped queen jack into ace king."
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