Nicolas Cardyn currently the chip leader with 2,100,000 chips. Not too far behind him are Julien Rouxel (second place - 2,024,000 chips) and Bhavin Khatri (third place - 1,850,000 chips).
The overall chip leader heading into Day 2 was just eliminated when he shoved his remaining 11 big blinds from the blinds with and was called by . An spiked the board and Riha was unable to get runner-runner outs to comeback in the hand. Riha collected £3,755 for finishing in 13th place.
Cristian Cirtog jammed all-in for 350,000 chips with . David Swallow called with and Cirtog was in trouble on the flop and drawing dead on the turn on a board.
Swallow flushed Cirtog out of the tournament in 11th place for £4,605. We will be announcing two elimination hands which took place on the feature table which is streaming on delay shortly.
While play will not be moving to hand to hand just one elimination short of the final table, the tournament director did warn the remaining players that they will be monitoring the speed at both tables and may institute this if one table is playing much slower than another.
About 30 minutes ago on the feature table, Stefan Eriksson went all-in for 463,000 chips and was called by Julien Rouxel. Eriksson turned over which was significantly behind the held by Rouxel. Eriksson was unable to improve his hand, and collected £3,755 after being eliminated in 14th place.
Also on the feature table on a delayed stream, the action folded around to Billy Ngo in the small blind who shoved all-in with for 434,000 chips. Julien Rouxel woke up with another hand, this time from the big blind with . Ngo was just about drawing dead when the hit the flop giving Rouxel a set.
David Shallow opened the action from the button with a bet of 50,000. Bhavin Khatri called from the small blind before Bjorn Picavet shoved all in for 521,000 chips from the big blind. Shallow got out of the way and folded while Khatri called.
Picavet:
Khatri:
Picavet was smiling the entire time, but praying for an eight stating, "Let's get an eight!" Unfortunately for him, an eight wasn't in the cards with the board running out . Picavet was the last man eliminated on Day 2, officially finishing in 10th place for £4,605.