"Seat open table seven" was announced and the cards and board were already rushed away. According to Niall Farrell, Andrey Andreev had shoved for just 2,100 with the and Christophe Larquemin called in the big blind with . The flop brought top two for Larquemin and Andreev's straight draw never completed.
Andreev is the first player to bust two bullets and won't be back in, as the tournament is played with single re-entry only.
Charlie Carrel opened to 900 from the hijack, Adrian Mateos reraised in the very next seat to 3,000, and after button and blinds folded Carrel four-bet to 11,000. Mateos called.
The flop came and prompted two checks, as did the turn . On the river Carrel bet out 12,000, which Mateos instantly called. Carrel flashed , but the top pair was no good against Mateos' .
There will be no further battles between the two of them at this point in time. Carrel was just moved to the table of Sam Greenwood.
Pratyush Buddiga just registered for the event and headed to the table of EPT13 Barcelona High Roller champion Connor Drinan and Dietrich Fast. The latter saw a heads-up flop of with around 10,000 in the middle and bet 2,500. Charalampos Tsivikos raised to 8,000 in the cutoff and the German called.
On the river, Fast checked and Tsivikos bet 17,000, which represented almost half of the stack of his opponent. Fast eventually sighed and called, Tsivikos showed and Fast scooped the pot with the for trips tens.
Team PokerStars Pro Theo Jorgensen also sat down one table over after just having registered for the tournament.
With around 9,500 in the middle and the board reading , Hari Bercovici checked in the hijack and Ben heath bet 6,500 in the cutoff. Bercovici called and checked again the on the river. Heath moved all in for approximately 23,000 and that forced a fold from his opponent.
Armando Collado Lanuza raised to 650 from the cutoff and Nick Petrangelo called on the button, Orpen Kisacikoglu came along in the big blind. On the flop, all three players checked. The turn was checked to Petrangelo and he bet 2,000. Kisacikoglu folded and Lanuza called.
After the river, Lanuza checked again for the third time and Petrangelo briefly looked up from his smartphone before betting 5,500. That proved to be too much for Lazuna, he folded.
The below players all registered right at the start of level three. Among them is also Mikalai Vaskaboinikau, who finished third in this very tournament the last time around.
With only two bust-outs so far the average stack is barely 52,000. A few players have however taken advantage of the first two levels of play, and are sitting on bigger stacks.
The 49 players still in the €10,300 High Roller just went on their first 20 minute break of the day. When they get back the price of poker will be 150/300 with a 50 chips ante.