Neil Rawnsley was spotted at the bar and confirmed that he lost a flip with pocket jacks against ace-king. The latter belonged to Michal Lubas, who spiked his over card on the river to eliminate the Brit.
Tim Becker was moved to table 17 not long ago to fill the vacant one seat and was among two players to call the shove for 29,000 by Grzegorz Derkowski, the other one was Joseph Lalor. On the flop, Becker moved all in for around 60,000 and Lalor let go.
Grzegorz Derkowski:
Tim Becker:
The turn and were of no help and Derkowski was eliminated. Felix Schneiders on the same table enjoyed a good start and has doubled his stack without showdown.
In a battle of the blinds, Christian Teubner got his last 25,000 in with the board reading and Ulrich Pauls looked him up. Teubner had the and was vastly dominated by Pauls' . The even gave Pauls a flush and Teubner was gone. Below are further early casualties of Day 2.
The board read and the pot already had about 50,000 in it. Norbert Seefeldt had checked from the cutoff. PokerStars Team Pro Marcin Horecki shoved, from the button, for 29,000 in total and Seefeldt tanked. After thinking for a while he decided to fold.
"Phew" Horecki sounded out. He showed the as one of this whole cards and then started stacking his chips up.
The live reporting team just saw Francois Mittertreiner stack up a bunch of chips and his friend showed us the photo of what had happened. Mittertreiner himself turned around to tell us the story of the hand against Kyriakos Mitsopoulos:
"5,400 bet with 4 callers pre-flop. The flop came , he bet 13,200, I raised to 29,200, he three-bet me. I shoved, he called. I had but he had . The turn was the and the river was the . So I hit runner-runner straight."
Peter Jaksland faced a raise to 5,300 by Tobias Schmidt and three-bet to 16,100 in the small blind, which Schmidt called. The flop fell and Jaksland bet 22,000, which Schmidt called. On the turn, Jaksland moved all in for more than 60,000 and Schmidt folded.
Another Dane suffered a setback, as Adnan Dizdarevic doubled Gordon Kühnel for 37,800. The latter shoved from under the gun with and Dizdarevic called in the small blind with . The board of improved the German and he remained in contention.