Ian Simpson raised to 50,000 at the end of the previous level in the Marquee room and picked up two callers in Steven van Zadelhoff and Mark Kelsall in the big blind. The flop came and Simpson's bet of 90,000 claimed the pot. The same table also features Dominik Nitsche, Marcel Luske, Marvin Rettenmaier and Tobias Reinkemeier.
Other big stacks in the Marquee room include Katie Swift and Mihaita Croitoru. Swift just won a smaller pot when calling a raise on the cutoff. The flop of went check, check, and her sole opponent then check-called the bet of 58,000 by Swift on the turn.
After the river, her opponent check-called 180,000 and then mucked when he was shown .
Day 2 has begun very well for partypoker ambassador Tony Dunst after he got it all-in pre-flop in superb shape.
"The big blind player raised me pre-flop after I opened to 30,000," Dunst told us, "I then made it 165,000 and he re-raised to 385,000 with 1.7m in total. I shoved for 1.6m and he called. I had aces and he had ace-king. The queen-high board saw me double-up."
Dunst may be flying along with a million chips more than the average stack, but others have departed.
Johnny Lodden, Sylvia Hewitt, Ben Spragg, Preben Stokkan, Simon Brooks, Manig Loeser, Manuel Bardon, Phil Mighall, Stevan Chew and partypoker ambassador Joao Simao have all bitten the dust in the first level and a half, although there is still time for one last re-entry before late registration closes at 3.50pm local time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.