After a raise to 1,800 and a call, Charles Vidal moved all in for his last 2,500 chips after coming into the day with the shortest of all stacks. Vasili Firsau three-bet to 6,600 and the player in the small blind then pushed all in for more than 30,000. Everyone got out of the way including Firsau and the player in the small blind showed .
Vidal had two live cards with and would find some help on the flop. The turn was a brick, but the river sent Videl to the rail.
Stefan Schillhabel raised to 2,000 from the hijack and found a call from PokerStars Sponsored Player Dominik Panka in the big blind. The flop came down and Panka checked. Schillhabel continued for 2,800 and Panka opted to stick around.
Fourth street was the and Panka tapped the table for a second time. Schillhabel checked back, allowing the to finish off the board. Panka checked, Schillhabel did the same, and Panka showed down a winning for top pair of aces. Panka took down the pot and is now flirting with a six-figure stack. He has about 96,000 to his name.
On a flop of we saw Belgian Jeronen Vaneenoo check call a bet of 1,800 from the big blind. The one doing the betting was Marcin Horecki in middle position. The Polish PokerStars Team Pro asked another 4,600 on the turn and 10,000 on the river.
Vaneenoo check called all three streets, but quietly mucked after Horecki showed him for top set.
Imagine heading into Day 2 of a major event with almost 136,000 in chips and blinds at 400-800 and a running ante of 100 only to be gone within less than half an hour. That's indeed what happened to Michal Mrakes and there was only one player at his table that had covered him: Andrius Bielskis. We walked over to table 26 to find out what happened.
Bielskis confirmed that he had taken the entire stack of his opponent within two hands, both of which were four-bet pots preflop. The first one was an open to 1,700 by Mrakes, three-bet to 3,700 by Bielskis and four-bet of Mrakes to 11,700 which was called. On the rainbow flop, a continuation bet of Mrakes for 9,000 was called and Bielskis took down the pot after betting a river.
Onto the next big clash it was four-bet again and continuation bet on a flop as well as a second barrel worth 16,000 on the turn. The river brought a and Mrakes bet 24,000 to call the push of Bielskis with pocket aces. Unfortunately though, the Lithuanian flipped over pocket fours for the straight and is now the monster chip leader.
Brian Benhamou got the early action going with an open to 1,700 and picked up three callers including Joseph El Khoury and they got to see the first three community cards fall .
Checked to the raiser, Benhamou continued for 3,300 and narrowed the field to just El Khoury. The turn card was the and once more El Khoury called a bet from Benhamou, this time 5,200. They had similar stacks going into the hand with just over pot sized bets left for the river that fell the .
Benhamou took a few moments before putting out a bet of 12,500 and El Khoury took a few minutes to size up his opponent and decide on a plan. Eventually he put all of his chips over the line and got snapped off by Benhamou with . Close but no good as El Khoury had the nuts and sent him to the rail.
Ronan Monfort and Ronan Gangzhou Hu were engaged in a hand where the board read . Monfort checked over to his opponent who fired out a bet of 6,300. Monfort called and the two were off to the river.
The dealer put out the to pair the board on the river. Monfort checked once more and Hu moved out a sizable bet of 28,500. Monfort let it go and Hu raked in the pot. With this, Monfort's stack has dropped below the starting stack at about 29,000.
Steven Moreau lost a flip for average stack and after calling the all in of an opponent who had four-bet shoved with pocket nines. Neither the over cards or diamonds appeared and the Frenchman was gone. On the way out, Gaelle Baumann also walked slowly to the exit and has been eliminated as well.
Team PokerStars Pro Eugene Katchalov three-bet shoved for 13,900 with and got called by initial raiser Marco Leonzio with . The board ran out to get Katchalov up to almost starting stack.
Vicky Coren-Mitchell arrived a few minutes late and just arrived only to see her original table broke shortly after. She got moved to table 3 and exactly one seat off to where she had been sitting yesterday all day long.
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and would find some help on the 
flop. The 
turn was a brick, but the 
river sent Videl to the rail.
and Panka tapped the table for a second time. Schillhabel checked back, allowing the 
to finish off the board. Panka checked, Schillhabel did the same, and Panka showed down a winning 
for top pair of aces. Panka took down the pot and is now flirting with a six-figure stack. He has about 96,000 to his name.
river.
for top set.
rainbow flop, a continuation bet of Mrakes for 9,000 was called and Bielskis took down the pot after betting a 
river.
flop as well as a second barrel worth 16,000 on the 
turn. The river brought a 
and Mrakes bet 24,000 to call the push of Bielskis with pocket aces. Unfortunately though, the Lithuanian flipped over pocket fours for the straight and is now the monster chip leader.
and 
. The board ran out 
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and once more El Khoury called a bet from Benhamou, this time 5,200. They had similar stacks going into the hand with just over pot sized bets left for the river that fell the 
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to pair the board on the river. Monfort checked once more and Hu moved out a sizable bet of 28,500. Monfort let it go and Hu raked in the pot. With this, Monfort's stack has dropped below the starting stack at about 29,000.
to get Katchalov up to almost starting stack.
