Joining the action on a flop of , Malte Moennig checked in the big blind and initial preflop aggressor Theo Jorgensen bet 800. A third player in middle position called and so did Moennig. All three then checked down the on the turn before the fell on the river. Moennig's bet of 3,500 got through uncalled and Jorgensen is in trouble after having previously lost a big portion of his stack.
Andrey Shatilov opened to 525 and Marc Etienne McLaughlin three-bet to 1,500 before Ara Melkistian four-bet to 3,500 in the small blind. Only McLaughlin called to see a flop of . Melkistian checked and folded to a bet worth 3,700 by the former November Niner. Fellow Canadian Carter Swidler is on the same table and also above starting stack.
The majority of the hand escaped us, but we happened upon Team PokerStars Pro Jan Heitmann's table with around 15,000 in the pot and a board reading . Both Heitmann and his opponent, Sweden's Bjorn Lundgren, checked, and the latter tabled the for two pair. It was good as Heitmann sent his cards to the muck unseen.
Robert Jan Hoogendoorn raised to 525 from under the gun and Ilkin Amirov three-bet to 1,250 on the button before the action reached Brahim Oubella in the big blind. The Frenchman called and Hoogendorn then four-bet to 3,825, receiving one single call by Oubella.
The flop saw a check-call by Oubella for 4,100 and the fell on the turn. Again Oubella checked and Hoogendorn then bet 5,550 only to fold to a check-raise worth 15,600.
The seat of EPT Vienna champ Oleksii Khoroshenin is empty. According to Rob Schiffbauer, who was at the table, the Ukrainian fell after getting his short stack all in with two pair only to run into an opponent's flopped set of aces. Whatever the case, Khoroshenin's day has come to an early end.
In one of the very last hands of level 2, a pot of more than 20,000 chips had emerged between Eli Heath and Sami Shetta, heading to a river of . Heath checked and Shetta, who kept talking almost all the time, then bet 5,000. Heath eventually folded and said in table chat he had .
Shetta claimed to have had the "flush draw with no kicker" and scooped the pot without showdown.