Jopi Jantunen was a short stack for most of the day and eventually got it in with the to see Grzegorz Kowalczyk look him up with . The Pole made a straight on the river and Jantunen was gone.
Almost at the same time a crazy hand took place on table five. Florian Ferroni had doubled up big time through Olivier Jach and the latter was then all in after a three-way clash. Ian Simpson also lost a lot of chips and was at risk with . Jach held the as second biggest stack while Daniel Clifford had both covered with the .
Simpson flopped the world on and tripled up, Jach sat there even shorter.
Make sure to keep watching the live stream, as in less than half an hour two players will join the rail. The field has since been reduced to 63 players only and if the current pace is any indication, we may be on the bubble very soon.
Karl Stark opened to 15,000 and was called by Julien Pecheur in the small blind before Michal Kanarkiewicz moved all in for around 70,000 in the big blind. Stark called and Pecheur mucked king-queen to see the Pole next to him flip over ace-king.
Stark had the and found both remaining queens in the deck after a bord of .
Davor Pavic is also gone after his ran into ... king-queen, a queen on the board.
Radek Scisel and Olivier Jach are the latest two entries to the bustout list. Jach lost another small pot to Cristian Cirtog and then got the remaining five big blinds in with against the of Daniel Clifford. Ace-high won the pot after neither player had hit anything and the player with the third-biggest stack at the start of Day 2 waved goodbye.
The first player we previously mentioned to be busting on the feature table was David Ozman. And George McDonald followed soon after when three-bet shoving with the out of the big blind for 104,000. The initial raiser on the button made the call with and the board ran out , ensuring that the kicker would play a crucial role.
Fabrice Ferrari had only very few chips left and got that in with the . Zoltan Bozoki looked him up with the and flopped top pair with a queen. An ace on the turn gave Ferrari a gutshot, but the meaningless was not good enough.
One table over, Jan Wolfgarten ran out of chips a mere minute later as well.
Joining the action on the flop, Anders Claren fired 25,000 out of the big blind and was called by Nicolay Langfeldt before the fell on the turn. Claren made it 40,000 to go and Langfeldt now raised to 83,000. He was called and Claren announced a check in the dark before the completed the board.
Langfeldt grabbed an entire stack of T,5000 chips and fired 100,000 to enforce a fold from his opponent.
George McDonald on the feature table, David Stocker and Laury Vanlerberghe have all been eliminated. The latter open-shoved for 60,000 from the button with and David Abbas made the call from one seat over with . The board ran out and that was it for the Frenchman.
Vyacheslav Igin was all in and at risk for 89,500 preflop and received two opponents in Julien Pecheur from the button and Frederic Ayadi in the small blind. Pecheur had them both covered and the best hand in , but Ayadi's and Igin's made both a straight on the .
The second break of the day has just started and everyone can enjoy 20 minutes off. Yet another chip race will take place, as the T-500 denominations are no longer needed either. In the first four hours of play, the field has been reduced to 56 hopefuls only out of the 121 that returned to the Casino Barriere Cannes just after lunch time.