After Georgi Sandev raised to 4,000 under the gun, Lukas van Eeden moved all in from the small blind for 44,000. Sandev called to put his Dutch opponent at risk.
Lukas van Eeden:
Georgi Sandev:
It was a suit versus suit battle with the giving Sandev the advantage with 80 percent of his flush to 60 for Van Eeden.
The on the turn now brought both players one card away from a winner, and it was Sandev's flush coming in on the river with the to take the hand and send Van Eeden to the rail.
Sam Greenwood raised to 3,500 in middle position and was called in three spots, by Diogo De Melo Cardoso on the button, by Niklas Astedt in the small blind, and by Dragos Trofimov in the big blind.
The quartet saw a flop of and everyone checked.
On the turn, Astedt led out for 7,000, getting a fold from Trofimov, but Greenwood and Cardoso stuck around.
The river brought the and Astedt now checked. Greenwood however put out a bet of 19,000 which was called by Cardoso, but Astedt now folded.
Greenwood showed , and Cardoso mucked his hand sending the healthy pot to Greenwood, who took another small pot shortly after to build his stack even further.
Leading the way Ireland's Stephen Kehoe with a stack of 331,500, who bagged the overall chip lead on Day 1b after Andre Moreira Marques finished Day 1a at the top of the counts.
Day 2 Top 10 Chip Counts
RANK
PLAYER
COUNTRY
CHIPS
1
Stephen Kehoe
Ireland
331,500
2
Anthony Cierco
France
322,000
3
Andre Moreira Marques
Portugal
315,000
4
Youness Ait Hssain
France
297,000
5
Dimitrios Angelakos
Greece
296,000
6
Paulo Rodrigues
Portugal
283,000
7
Felipe Fontoura
Brazil
282,500
8
Jack Salter
United Kingdom
282,500
9
Tien Dung Pham
Vietnam
281000
10
Enrico Mosca
Italy
278,000
There were no shortage of big poker names in the record-breaking field of 2,234 runners and many of them survived the two starting flights to see Day 2, including high stakes crusher Stephen Chidwick, longtime veteran Patrik Antonius and PokerStars ambassadors Benjamin Spragg, Sam Grafton, Alejandro Lococo and Andre Akkari, who is fresh off of a ninth-place finish in the €2,200 Estrellas Poker Tour High Roller.
Others who will be in the Day 2 field include Gaelle Baumann, Chino Rheem, Adrian Mateos and defending champion Simon Brandstrom.
Day 2 will kick off on Level 11 with blinds of 1,000/1,500/1,500 and will last for six 90-minute levels with 20-minute breaks at the end of each level. There will also be a dinner break at the discretion of the tournament directors.
The trophy and the lion's share of the €10,834,900 prize pool still await the eventual champion in the €5,300 Main Event. Stay tuned as PokerNews is on-site and ready to bring you Day 2 updates.