Sebatian Langrock's held in a showdown of shorter stacks against the of Mathias Kasek on a seven-high board. Soon after, the German however pushed in a battle of the blinds with and the player next to him called off for 10 big blinds with to double thanks to a queen on the board.
Janathan Klüpfel, who finished ninth in the WPT National in Prague last December, was up nicely and flopped a set against Oliver Heppchen. However, the latter made a runner runner flush to stay in the tournament. Klüpfel is the second biggest stack on his table with Steven Stephan next to Heppchen just ahead of the German.
Marcin Wydrowski, who finished atop the counts of Day 1b and was among the top five stacks at the start of the day, has apparently just been eliminated. His media card was handed over and the player ticket followed straight after as well.
Near the top of the Day 1a entrants was Germany's Steven Stephan, who has been mounting chips throughout the first three hours of Day 2, along with his table-mate Janathan Klüpfel. We caught up with one hand where the duo battled it out with about 15,000 already in the pot, Klüpfel led the action on a flop to 9,000 and called Stephan's raise to 19,000. Klüpfel checked when the hit the turn, and folded to Stephan's bet of 32k.
The following hand Stephan was joking around with the dealer when he accidentally exposed an that should have been part of Stephan's hand. Before folding pre-flop, he smiled and told the table, "My hand is better now."
We are down to 184 entrants according to the big board with play scheduled to continue today until we have 16 players left. Pascal Masset was in the group of some of the latest players to exit the tournament.
Dirk Wenkemann moved all in for 60,000 from the button and Pietro Sibione called from one seat over with the . Wenkemann had and improved on the flop flop, but the turn and river restored the preflop order and gave the pot to Sibione.
About 30 minutes ago, Romania's Paul Ciaca shared that he lost three straight showdowns. More recently, however, he won a big hand when he was able to get his opponent to fold to an all-in.
The action started when the player under the gun raised to 6,000 and the player to his left calling. Ciaca, who began the hand with about 65,000 chips three bet the action to 19,600 from the cut-off. The play under the gun folded, while his other opponent called.
Both players checked on a . Ciaca bet 18,000 on the turn, which his opponent called. On an unknown river card, Ciaca jammed for his remaining 22,000 chips and his opponent folded. Ciaca shared with us he had for a nut-flush draw on the turn which didn't complete on the river.
In the free buffet, Marcin Wydrowski was spotted and a quick chat revealed how the Pole was eliminated. It happened in the second level and on his second table of the day with pocket kings. A short stack was involved with and the table big stack had reshoved to isolate. Wydrowski snapped off but a jack hit the board to send him out.
held in a showdown of shorter stacks against the 
of Mathias Kasek on a seven-high board. Soon after, the German however pushed in a battle of the blinds with 
and the player next to him called off for 10 big blinds with 
to double thanks to a queen on the board.
flop to 9,000 and called Stephan's raise to 19,000. Klüpfel checked when the 
hit the turn, and folded to Stephan's bet of 32k.
that should have been part of Stephan's hand. Before folding pre-flop, he smiled and told the table, "My hand is better now."
. Wenkemann had 
and improved on the flop 
turn and 
river restored the preflop order and gave the pot to Sibione.
. Ciaca bet 18,000 on the 
for a nut-flush draw on the turn which didn't complete on the river.