Players are on break for 20 minutes.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
30,000 | |
|
30,000 | |
|
30,000 |
With already around 9,000 in the middle and the flop reading 
, Avraham Azulay checked in the hijack and Andrei Butko bet 5,000 in the cutoff. Mihaita Croitoru moved all in from the button and Azulay took just brief consideration before moving all in over the top for 34,000.
Butko had another 12,000 behind and was sent into the think tank. Eventually the clock was called while all other players were about to head into the first break, and Butko folded.
Mihaita Croitoru: 
Avraham Azulay: 
The 
turn immediately improved Croitoru but he now needed to dodge another nine or seven. The 
on the river did just that and Azulay sighed. "I knew you had a flush draw, such a good call," he added and dropped below the starting stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
40,000 | 18,500 |
|
21,000 | -13,000 |
Photos by Tomas Stacha.
On the three-way flop of 
, Marco Molon checked out of the big blind and Christophe Larquemin bet 1,175 from early position, which was called by Ondrej Jakubcik on the button and Molon. After the 
turn, Molon checked once more and Larquemin bet 3,000, which this time only Jakubcik called.
The 
on the river completed the board and the Frenchman bet 5,000. "How much do you have behind?" Jakubcik asked and Larquemin showed his stack to see Jakubcik call. Larquemin rolled over 
for trips queens, while Jakubcik had that beat with 
for a full house. "That's dirty," Larquemin said in French. "Make sure to write that down, dirty."
According to the Czech bloggers, Jakubcik won his seat to the Main Event in the satellite last night despite being down to half an ante on the bubble.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
58,000 | |
|
|
50,000 | |
|
18,000 |
Four players have been eliminated thus far and that also includes Stefan Peukert, who doubled his tiny stack not long ago before running out of chips. Furthermore, EPT regular Boutros Naim from Lebanon was also felted in level two as well.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
40,000 | 40,000 |
|
33,000 | 3,000 |
|
32,000 | 2,000 |
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
|
24,000 | 24,000 |
|
24,000 | -8,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted |
From early position, Thomas Mjeldheim pushed all in for 13,400, a slight overbet into a pot of about 11,000. Saar Wilf stretched and sighed at the 
board.
"This is not a good card for me," he mused.
Mjeldheim smiled, but he wasn't smiling a few minutes later when Wilf slid some calling chips in. That's because Mjeldheim had 
for a missed draw. Wilf showed 
for tens up and Mjeldheim took his leave.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
53,000 | 22,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Two players were in a preflop raising war, with Louis Linard putting in 4,100 on the button and then calling another raise to 8,800 from a player in middle position. That player checked the 
flop and then tank-folded to a bet of 4,700 from Linard.
Down to his last 2,725, Stefan Peukert three-bet all in out of the small blind and he was quickly called by initial raiser Vladimir Troyanovskiy in early position.
Stefan Peukert: 
Vladimir Troyanovskiy: 
The 
flop improved Peukert, and the 
turn and 
river changed nothing anymore to let the German double. Despite the small setback, Troyanovskiy has started well into Day 1a and is among the early chip leaders.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
40,000 | 10,000 |
|
|
6,000 | 6,000 |
Raman Afanasenka was sent back to just over starting stack after paying off the check-raise of Epstathios Kavoukis on the river of a board . Afanasenka had bet 2,200 and Kavoukis check-raised to 5,600 out of the small blind to pick up the call and roll over 
for a back door flush.
Further assorted stacks from level two can be found below.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
35,000 | 5,000 |
|
33,000 | -8,000 |
|
32,000 | -2,500 |
|
32,000 | -7,000 |
|
|
31,000 | 1,000 |
|
30,000 | |
|
30,000 | |
|
30,000 | |
|
30,000 | |
|
29,000 | |
|
29,000 | -1,000 |
|
|
21,500 | -7,500 |
Martin Staszko bet 1,700 into a pot of about 1,900 from the big blind against a player in the cutoff, with 
on the felt. After a brief tank and a call, the former WSOP Main Event runner-up turned over 
for top boat.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
36,200 | 6,200 |
