Eduard Bhaggoe, one of only two Dutch players in the field today, was just eliminated.
It wasn't Bhaggoe's day today as he was knocked short early, and never really could get things going.
Bhaggoe, who made a deep run in the Barcelona event of this season's tour, pushed his last 5,500 in holding ace-queen. His opponent made the call with ace-king and the board came full of blanks.
With Bhaggoe leaving early, it's up to Janno Cazemier to defend the Dutch pride today.
That was quite painful for the Team Pro from Mexico. Angel Guillen four-bet shoved preflop for 16,500 with pocket kings and Stanley Blaby from the United Kingdom looked him up with pocket tens. The first community card was another ten and Guillen was out.
Sergio Castelluccio was nowhere to be seen and his seat was taken by a new player. We asked former table mate Andrew Chen what had happened and he replied 'Oh yeah, I think that might be worth reporting on'.
Chen told us that Oleksii Khoroshenin had opened under the gun to 750. Someone a couple of positions down had made it 1,750 and Sergio Castelluccio had cold four-bet to 3,200. Daniel Smith from Monaco, not to be mistaken with Dan Smith who crushed Monaco's €5,000 events two years a go, cold five-bet from the blinds to 6,700.
Khoroshenin had folded, the three better had thought about it for some time, but eventually did the same. Chen told us that Castelluccio took his time before eventually calling.
The flop came with two hearts and Smith pushed all in. Castelluccio, who needed quite some time pre flop, now made the call instantly.
Castelluccio had kings but that hand was no good. Smith tabled aces and that hand held up. Castelluccio, who started out so well today, is gone from this tournament.
A lot of players like to mask their emotions at the table. They don’t want to reveal anything is frustrating them or conversely delighting them. It is safe to say that, for today at least, Russian Yury Salinaev is not one of those players.
He has been talkative, excitable and occasionally confrontational so far today, but now he is in a slough of despond. Down to 10,000 in chips he is slumped in his chair waving his hands around in frustration. Under-the-gun plus one he min-raised to 800 and found one caller in Oleksii Khoroshenin, a Ukranian PokerStars player.
The two players saw a flop of . Salinaev rapped the table and Khoroshenin paused briefly before betting 1,500. Salinaev shook his head in disbelief and flicked his cards away, frustration written all over his face.
EPT Prague winner Julian Track had lost some of the initial profit on Day 1A but just helped himself to an above average stack once again. Preflop he four-bet to 6,500 and Mateusz Rypulak called to see the flop. Track continued for 7,200 and then shoved the turn for 25,500. Rypulak paid the first barrel but the second proved to be too much - fold. Track flashed the before releasing his cards to the dealer.
Miguel Gurrea Monton just erupted in celebration as if he had won the tournament already. After preflop action and a continuation bet on the flop, fellow countryman Dragan Kostic had check-raised him all in after the turn. Monton snap called with the for the nut straight whereas Kostic needed a queen to chop holding the . The completed the board and the two Spaniards swapped stacks.
Giorgio Donzellihad just bet 6,000 having reached the turn on a board showing . His opponent was fellow Italian Giuseppe Tedeschi who then moved all in. Tedeschi looked relaxed as he stirred some sugar in to his fresh cup of tea. Donzellihad sighed but made the call.
Donzellihad tabled for a full house and had little to fear after Tedeschi turned over for the flopped broadway straight. The river was the and Tedeschi was out with nothing but a sweet cup of tea.
The German opened the action with a standard raise, Viacheslav Igin three-bet to 2,900 and Bojang then four-bet to 6,800. Both opponents went heads up to the flop where Bojang made the continuation bet for 6,300. The turn was checked through before the German fired 15,000 on the river, which was enough to put his opponent all-in. Igin elected to fold with 12,000 behind.