Malaysia's Marcuss Liow four-bet shoved preflop after a button three-bet from Xiqiang Chen and the latter called all in for 54,000 with 
. Liow had 
but missed on 
to be left with fewer than fifteen bigs.
Marius Gicovanu was spotted on his way out of the tournament area and there were no chips in front of his seat anymore while the pot was pushed to Georges Hanna. Gicovanu had been all in with 
and Hanna made the call with 
. The 
flop improved Hanna to a pair of kings and both the turn and river had been blanks.
Ariel Celestino began the day with starting stack and has just won a pot that takes him a little over where he started. He opened the action from under the gun and got a call from the button before Koray Aldemir made up the difference from the big blind.
The flop fell 
and after Aldemir checked, Celestino continued for 3,500. Only Aldemir came along to see a 
land on the turn and after another check, Celestino moved all in. Aldemir snap-folded and despite losing that pot, he is in better shape after the first level, adding more than 16,000 to his stack.
PSPC runner-up Julien Martini is coming off a massive first level of the day and is almost up to 500k.
Jinhua Li raised from the button to 6,600 and the player in the small blind got out of the way. O'Dwyer took his time and he put all his chips in the middle. Li asked for a count and then wanted to confirm multiple times that O'Dwyer's stack was indeed 37,300.
Li then got the clock called on him after about a minute but the floor staff ruled that he still had time to think over his decision. He did end up calling after about two minutes and they opened up.
Jinhua Li: 
Steve O'Dwyer: 
The board ran out 
and O'Dwyer was eliminated from the EPT Main Event in Monte Carlo.
A big pot of more than 65,000 emerged to the 
turn and Morgan Aceto checked in the small blind. Ut Tam Vo in the hijack bet 26,000 and Aceto moved all in for 105,100, which had Vo covered. After some consideration, Vo called and the cards were on their backs.
Ut Tam Vo:
Morgan Aceto: 
Aceto had the best of it with his flopped set and turned full house, and the river sent Vo to the rail. According to Aceto after the hand, he had defended the small blind. Aceto check-raised the flop and called a reraise by Vo before the fireworks culminated on the turn in one of the biggest pots of the tournament so far.
Manig Loeser can also be found on the same table with a very healthy stack.
Fatima Moreira de Melo started the day at a tough table featuring Ramon Colillas, Maria Lampropulos, Seth Davies, and Sam Greenwood, but fortunately for her, that table was the first to break today.
However, Fatima's next table was one of the secondary feature tables that won't break down today and likely just as tough with the likes of Mustapha Kanit, Romain Lewis, Nicolas Chouity, and Celina Lin all on her side. The Olympic gold medalist and PokerStars Ambassador has her work cut out for her today if she's to make the money.
"Table open!" has been heard numerous times from around the room. Sean Winter, Thomas Mühlöcker, Dominik Nitsche, Maria Lampropoulos, Jason Wheeler, Mohsin Charania and Max Silver are amongst the first casualties and below is a list of the players who have joined them at the rail.
Masato Yokosawa raised from the under-the-gun position to 3,300 and it folded around to Julien Veyssiere in the small blind. He already lost a big part of his stack today and he pushed his last 18,400 to the middle. Yokosawa asked for a count and then called.
Masato Yokosawa: 
Julien Veyssiere:
The board ran out 
and Veyssiere doubled with a set of eights.
With the cards already on their backs, Jes Bondo was paying off a sizable amount to Paul Tedeschi on a 
board. Bondo had 
in front of him but was second best to the Frenchman's .
At an adjacent table, Day 1a chip leader Ludovic Geilich has moved up to over 300K.
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