There were already 13,500 chips in the pot when Paul Fontan checked from the small blind on a board of 2♣4♠3♦6♠. Nikolai Ivanov checked behind on the button and a 10♣ river was dealt.
Fontan changed it up and made a 10,500 bet. Ivanov quickly folded and Fontan was granted the sizeable pot.
Maksym Filipovskyi checked to Igor Picone on a flop of 3♥6♥9♣. With 5,500 chips in the middle, Picone made a bet of 1,500, which was called by Filipovksyi.
Picon then sized up to 6,500 chips on the 7♦ turn, and another check-call followed from Filipovskyi. The 6♦ river was checked by both players and Filipovskyi tabled 5♦5♣ for two pair.
Picone took one more look at his cards before sliding them into the muck and forfeiting the pot.
"I would've called anyway," Filipovskyi added while he stacked up his chips.
Antoine Labat had three-bet preflop from the small blind and Milos Petakovic was the only caller, in the cutoff, leading to 6,600 chips being gathered. Labat then continued for 3,900 on the 9♥2♣6♠ flop before the 10♥ turn was dealt.
Labat piled in 6,900 more chips but this time Petakovic folded and the pot was shipped Labat's way.
Pierre Calamusa opened to 500 from under the gun and was called by Joao Vieira on the button and Jason Lau in the big blind.
Lau and Calamusa checked the 5♣J♥K♦ flop before Vieira fired 900. Lau continued while Calamusa did not.
The J♣ turn brought another check from Lau and a bet of 1,300 from Vieira. Lau then announced a check-raise to 4,000, which was called by Vieira.
Lau then led out for 5,100 on the A♥ river. Vieira took more than three minutes before sliding out a raise to 14,700. Lau then took a few minutes of his own before making the fold, as Vieira got an early boost to his stack.
Priit Parmasto checked from the hijack on a completed board of 5♦9♦8♦Q♣K♥. Adrian Vinuele then fired a bet of 5,500 into the pot of 13,000 on the button.
Parmasto took another peek at his cards before throwing in calling chips while announcing "ace-king".
Vineuela turned over J♥10♥ for the turned straight and raked in the pot. "Wow, that's a thing," Parmasto concluded.
Julien Loire and Andrew Hulme had had a raising war prelop which ended with 12,000 chips in the middle. Loire then bet a tiny 1,300 chips on 6♦2♦4♦, which Hulme called.
The J♦ turn was subsequentially checked by both players before the 6♣ river saw Loire add 2,500 more to the pot. Hulme decided to put the same amount in the pot for a call, but mucked his cards once Loire turned over A♠A♥ for two pair with aces.
Maksym Filipovskyi raised to 600 from the hijack and Bingqiu Hu three-bet to 2,400 from the hijack. Adrian Chabbi then made it 4,200 to go from the big blind, which only Hu called.
Chabbi made a bet of 1,000 on the 3♦8♣A♠ flop and Hu flicked in a chip for the call. On the 6♠ turn, Chabbi made another small bet, of 1,500. This time, Hu elected to raise to 4,200.
Chabbi put in the extra chips for a call, after which the 8♠ river completed the board. Chabbi checked to Hu, who fired 5,100 more into the pot.
A quick fold followed form Chabbi, relinquishing the pot and diving under the starting stack.
"That was an interesting hand," Jon Kyte commented after the fact.
Players in the EPT Main Event have been sent on their first 20-minute break of the day.
The prize pool has already crossed €2,000,000 through the opening two levels of Day 1a.
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