Martin Jacobson entered very late and was just shown in the system as new entry, while Bryan Ruiter, Andrew Christoforou, Andrew Hulme and Grzegorz Wyraz ran out of chips as of lately.
In 15 minutes, the second level of the day comes to an end, with 548 entrants showing for Day 2 and 498 players remaining. They have until the end of this level and the following break in order to re-enter should they run out of chips, before the registration will officially close.
Michael Mazilu was already all in and the main pot was around 1,000,000 while the side pot between Stephen Foster and big stack Paul Carr was around 350,000. The board showed and Foster moved all in for more than 1.87m.
"Do you have aces?" Carr asked and eventually folded. Foster indeed turned over the and Mazilu stood no chance with . "I swear to god I had pocket queens," Carr said and remained with a big stack.
Mitchell Johnson came in for a raise under the gun for 55,000 and only Denmark's Ronni Borg called out of the big blind. Johnson continued for 50,000 on the flop and Borg called once again.
The players checked through the turn before all hell broke loose on the river. Borg fired 110,000, Johnson made it 375,000 to go before the Dane came back over the top for 1.1 million total. Johnson opted to call, but his rivered flush with was second best to Borg's for the stone cold nuts.
Two hands later Johnson put the rest of his chips to work but again to no avail. Johnson got it in from the button holding against the of Thomas Middleton in the small blind, and even though the flop opened up the possibility of a split pot, the on the river sealed the deal.
Short stack Venu Mallina doubled for 335,000 with against the of Tomas Jozonis on a board of while the same table also features the PartyPoker Pros Mike Sexton and Johnny Lodden as well as Kevin Killeen.
Big stack Andrew Seden is one table over and the table over with all big names such as [Removed:17] and Chris Moorman got even more crazy with Benjamin Pollak and Laszlo Bujtas.
Ian Simpson came into play slightly short-stacked and shares his table with a number of absolute poker bosses in Tobias Reinkemeier, Marvin Rettenmaier, Marcel Luske and Steven van Zadelhoff.
"Yesterday's table was great fun. I don't want to play with these guys....they're all really good!" Simpson told us as he described how he doubled up.
"I played and the flop came . We'll take it. I eventually moved all-in on the river for 400,000 with 300,000 in the pot. My opponent had and the ten that came on the turn potentially me whiff a bunch of draws, so it made sense. I've got 1.4 million now though, so it's going OK. I kind of hope that we're one of the first tables to break, though."
Simpson is on one of the furthest-away tables in the Dusk Till Dawn Marquee, which holds so many players that it is the third biggest cardroom in Europe on its own. Simpson may be moved, but looks like settling in for the long haul even if he changes seats.
Koray Aldemir is sharing a table with Jimmy Guerrero, Paul-Francois Tedeschi and Stephen Malone, and has been running pretty good early on, further building on his already big stack.
Charlie Carrel lost a flip with ace-king versus pocket sixes and may re-enter still while Christoph Vogelsang also just left the tournament area.
Paul Carr was very happy to find himself in the very same seat and table on Day 2 as well, and the Irishman had been running incredibly well there last night.
It just got even better, as a raising war broke out between Ngoc Nguyen and Carr on the button. Nguyen raised to 50,000, Carr three-bet to 140,000 and Nguyen clicked it up to 425,000. Carr squeezed to 1,040,000 and Nguyen ripped it in for around 2.5m to pick up a snap-call.
Ngoc Nguyen:
Paul Carr:
The flop gave both players a set, and the miracle one outer would not show up as the turn and river completed the board.
In the Marquee room Tony Dunst three-bet the button and the initial raiser from early position called. On the flop, the action checked to Dunst and he checked behind. The on the turn saw a check, a bet for 180,000 by Dunst, and a call before the initial raiser bet the river for 345,000 with 420,000 behind.
Ngo Coong Sang put the ultimate pressure on his opponent pre-flop, after running his stack up to two million chips. He used that stack to commit a player raising pre-flop to going all-in pre-flop. Sang was behind, but held plenty of equity with against .
The board of saw Sang river two-pair and eliminate his opponent, moving over the average of 2,231, 372 chips in the process.