Valdir Cordeiro Dos Santos has become the first player to bust and re-entered almost immediately, which brings the field up to 168 players out of 169 entries.
Picking up the pot on the turn, Eamon McNamee made it 500 to go out of the big blind and was called by Adrian Quevedo in a late position. The fell on the river and McNamee bet for another 1,300, which won the pot uncontested.
In a battle cutoff versus small blind and with around 16,000 in the middle, the completed board showed . Karim Zerrougui in the small led led for 8,000 and Dominik Siegl snap-called by tossing in a single chip.
Zerrougui briefly flashed the for the busted nut flush draw and Siegl won the pot with for two pair.
The cards of Giorgi Mevlupishvili were already in the muck as he conceded an essential double up to Abdelmajid El Hani.
On a board of , El Hani had made queens full with the and dragged in the very large pot.
"What did you show? Aces?" another player at the table asked and Mevlupishvili replied that he had kings.
In the meanwhile, Valdir Cordeiro Dos Santos on his second bullet complained that he would have won the pot, which indicates he had pocket jacks. Either way, the Brazilian is down in chips and has some work ahead.
Four players have been eliminated so far and the latest trio to depart included Karim Zerrougui, Georgios Koliofotis and Danny Covyn. The field size has now increased to 202 entries of which 198 players remain.
Ciprian Paunescu opted to check the river of a board with some 16,500 in the middle. Dmitrii Shchepkin then bet 7,000 and that sent Paunescu deep into the tank. He double-checked his stack more than once and eventually called.
Shchepkin rolled over the for the queen-high straight and Paunescu mucked with plenty of frustration showing.
On the tail end of a smaller pot, the cards of Gerd Mitteregger were mucked and the was still visible. He had made trips aces on the but Dario Quattrucci had that beat with the for a full house. Mitteregger joins the list of early casuaties as the screens show 210 players out of 215 entries remaining.