Paraskevas Tsokaridis opened to 120,000 and Ema Zajmovic three-bet to 325,000 from the cutoff, which the Greek called. On the flop, Tsokaridis checked and Zajmovic continued for 360,000, which won the pot uncontested.
Zajmovic moved to around 2.8m, while the average with 297 players out of 551 hopefuls on this very Day 2 is at 4.16m. It is a long way to go though, because according to the screens there are 1,194,000,000 chips in play - yes, 1.194 billion chips!
Stephen Malone bowed out at almost the same time on a different table.
You can still enter the £2,700 8-Max side event here at Dusk Till Dawn and with a cool £1,000,000 guarantee, this packed casino is gambling on plenty of entries again to avoid a tasty overlay.
You won't have to take on the £10,300 High Roller champion Vojtech Ruzicka either, as he's just busted.
[Removed:17] and Chris Moorman got involved in a very big blind-on-blind pot which went the way of the New Zealand money leader Yan.
On a flop of , Moorman called Yan's bet of 145,000 before the turn brought the . This time Yan checked, so Moorman bet 350,000 and got called. On the river of [2], Yan checked again so Moorman bet 700,000 and eventually, Yan called him down. He was right to do so, Moorman's bluff with no good against Yan's . Moorman isn't out, but he's a short-stack now.
We've been losing players steadily the last hour, with Boris Becker and Griffin Benger the latest couple of casualties.
Short stack Kevin Allen shoved from the hijack and the action folded to Christopher Yong on the button, who asked for a count. Allen's shove was for 701,000 and Yong then reraised all in to get everyone else including Michael Muldoon in the big blind out of the way.
Kevin Allen:
Christopher Yong:
The in the window was spelling trouble for Allen, and he was drawing dead by the time the turn was there, making the on the river a mere formality. "Good luck Jon," Allen said on his way out and below are the other notables on the table.
Dane Morten Mortensen only arrived in Nottingham this afternoon and bought straight into the Main Event. He's been doing very well for himself and has turned his one million chips into more than five at this point.
First off he got three streets of value with Queens against Patrick Mulhern. Mortensen raised from the button, Mulhern called out of the big blind, and the flop came . Mulhern check-called 145,000 and did the same again on the turn. On the river Mortensen bet 425,000, got the call and took the pot with the overpair.
Next, he won a decent sized one when he made it 115,000 to go from first position, Jost Reifuhs flatted in the cutoff and Jan Bednar squeezed it up to 405,000 out of the small blind. Back on Mortensen he put both his opponent to the test by moving all-in, but neither Reifuhs nor Bednar were interested and let go of their hands.
Among those to run out of chips entirely during this level were also World Series of Poker Main Event champion Martin Jacobson, Tom "hitthehole" Middleton, Paul Vas Nunes, Sylvain Loosli and Artan Dedusha.
Sam Trickett raised from early position and the action folded around to Christian Christner on the button. The German three-bet and then called the shove of Trickett.
Sam Trickett:
Christian Christner:
On the flop, Trickett all but locked up the double and just running aces would eliminate the partypoker ambassador. A blank turn reduced that minimal threat to zero, making the river a formality. "What is this, no sweat at all?" Florian Duta joked from the other side of the table.