Dominik Nitsche and Anton Astapau got it in before the flop. Astapau in middle position had 
and was slightly behind against Nitsche's 
.
The 
board favored Astapau though, and Nitsche wished the table good luck before heading for the exit.
Alessio Isaia raised to 11,000 from the hijack before Viacheslav Goryachev bumped it up to 24,000 from the cut off. With the decision folding back around to Isaia, he paused for a moment, before four-betting to 58,000. Goryachev made the call and both players watched the flop come down 
.
Both players checked before the dealer revealed the 
on the turn. Isaia checked and waited for Goryachev to make his move. Goryachev then moved all in for 177,000 which caught Isaia off guard. He tanked for almost two minutes before finally mucking his hand.
Things already weren't going to well for Martin Kabrhel, and it all turned really sour minutes ago.
On a flop of 
he got all of the chips in against Frenchman Patrick Uzan for a 355,000 pot. Kabrhel had a monster with 
but entirely in line with how things were going lately, he had just one direct out with that hand as Uzan tabled 
.
No runner runner split pot and no one-outer with the 
on the turn and 
on the river and Kabrhel handed over even more chips, leaving himself just six big blinds.
"Yeaahhh!" we heard coming from a table two rows away. Roman Emelyanov shared his enthusiasm about a rivered king on a board of 
. The Russian had kings in front of him which now beat out Christopher Frank's aces. The big pot went Emelyanov's way and Frank just quietly left the table.
Joseph Cheong moved all in from the cut off for his remaining 63,500 in chips. The action folded to Vojtech Ruzicka on the big blind who looked down at his cards before snap calling.
Cheong: 
Ruzicka:
The board ran out 
to see Ruzicka double up to 121,000 and leave Cheong with just 6,000 behind.
Two hands later, Cheong moved all in for his last 5,000-chip before Oliver Price bumped it up to 12,000 from the cut off. Ruzicka made the call from the button as the blinds folded their hands.
The flop came down and Price checked. Ruzicka reached for his chips and splashed out 15,500 which was enough to send Price out before the cards were tabled.
Ruzicka:
Cheong:
Cheong had flopped a jack to take the lead with a pair, but that wouldn’t last long as the dealer revealed the on the turn and on the river to see Ruzicka hit runner-runner to make a straight.
Shortly after returning from break, both Steve O’Dwyer and Valentino Konakchiev exchanged raises pre flop which resulted in Konakchiev being all in and at risk for his tournament life.
O’Dwyer: 
Konakchiev: 
The board ran out 
to see O’Dwyer hold with his pair as Konakchiev was sent to the rail.
As we walked over to see how Kabrhel was doing with his monster stack before the break, it turned out his stack wasn't as monstrous anymore. Ari Engel had a huge stack though and showed us a text message to explain what had happened.
Engel had opened with 
to 8,500 and Martin Kabrhel had made it 18,700 from the hijack. Engel called and check called another 20,100 on 
. Engel continued to check call 60,000 on the 
turn and check call all in for 126,000 on the 
river.
Engel's second pair with ten-seven proved good, Kabrhel showed 
and had to forfeit a lot of chips.
Level: 15
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 500
The break was well underway but a large crowd gathered around Ole Schemion's table as there was something big going on. With 
on the board Mike Watson in the hijack had a 100,000 bet in front of him. Schemion on the button requested the all in triangle and so put maximum pressure on his Canadian opponent.
Rocco Palumbo told us that it was a single raised pot and that Watson had check raised Schemion to 50,000 on the turn. Schemion had called that check raise in position, and now pushed over Watson's big river bet.
Watson tanked for a while and the crowd got bigger. "Ace-queen with the ace of clubs?" Watson asked at one point without expecting a reply. Schemion stayed silent as expected.
Eventually Watson folded whuile mumbling something we couldn't quite catch unfortunately. Schemion mucked silently. Because it was a break, and the 100's would be raced off, Schemion didn't stack his chips. With some 30 high stacks and lots of smaller stacks, we couldn't 100 percent get his chip count right. We do expect that he plays just over 600,000 now though.
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