Fresh from doubling through Roderick MacNeil, Heins Kalde opened to 16,000 from the hijack seat. Alexander Koops called from the cutoff, then Jens Eisner squeezed all-in for 87,000 in total from the button. Both blinds stepped out of the way, putting the action back on Kalde.
Kalde announced call, Koops folded and the cards turned onto their backs.
Eisner:
Kalde:
The flop was followed into view by the and the and Eisner doubled.
Heins Kalde is up to 280,000 after winning a big pot from Roderick MacNeil.
The chips went flying into the middle on a flop, with Kalde all-in for 121,500 chips. MacNeil revealed the for top pair, which was obliterated by the of Kalde. The completed the board and the pot was slid to Kalde.
Kamil Paluszkiewicz has caught plenty of lucky cards during this tournament, but his luck finally run out a few moments ago.
Paluszkiewicz found himself all-in preflop with and racing against Dutchman Alexander Koops' . It was a race he would ultimately lose as the board by the river read to send Paluszkiewicz and leave us with only 34 players in the hunt for the £43,000 first place prize.
Philippe Garnier's tournament has come to an abrupt end after a clash with Zigmas Pekarskas didn't exactly go to plan.
Garnier was down to around 10 big blinds and shoved all-in from the button with the . The raise folded out the small blind, but Pekarskas called in the big blind with . A nine on the flop improved Pekarskas to a pair, and when the turn and rive came the and it was game over for Garnier.
Roderick MacNeil raised first in from the button and made it 8,000 to continue. Heins Kadle min-raised to 16,000 from the small blind and MacNeil, who looked slightly perplexed about the small three-bet, called.
Both players checked the flop and the turn, but Kadle led for 21,000 when the appeared on the river and MacNeil folded.
We're down to 40 players in the Main Event and the money bubble is rapidly approaching.
Nicklas Degn started Day 2 with 36,700 chips and is now up among the leaders as we head towards the second schedule break.
Degn was in the big blind wen he saw Richard Milne open to 10,000 from middle position and Matas Levanas call on the button and decided to see a flop. That flop came down and Degn checked. Milne continued with a 17,000 bet, Levanas called and Degn check-raised to 42,500. Mine mucked but Levanas made the call.
The turn brought the into the equation and Degn asked Levanas how many chips he was playing. The answer was around 120,000 so Degn bet 72,000. After much though, Levanas folded and left Degn to continue on his journey towards the chip lead.
Anders Ostrowski got the preflop betting round started with a raise to 11,000 from early position. Alexander Koops called from the cutoff only to see Babak Movazzafi squeeze all-in for 87,300 in total from the button.
Ostrowski smirked before folding and Koops followed suit, although he gave his options much more consideration before doing so.