From the hijack, Viktor Lavi shoved all in for 36,200. Markus Durnegger announced a call on the button. The small blind tank-folded and the big blind mucked right away.
Durnegger:
Lavi:
The board ran out , giving Durnegger a winning boat.
Colin Robinson defended his big blind against a raise by Mattia Baccassino and check-called a bet of 8,300 on the flop. Both ended up checking through the turn and the river and Robinson sighed before turning over the winning . Right after he won another pot when his sole opponent called a bet of 9,500 on the river.
Robinson turned over for top pair and his opponent said "you three-outered me."
The fireworks came soon after when Jakutis Povilas lost 60% of his stack to Yury Kanunnikov after being unable to beat the of the Russian on a board of .
Paul Michaelis is close to 500,000 in chips and the WSOP bracelet winner from Germany recalled the hand that peopelled his stack a lot.
According to Michaelis, he faced a raise to 5,000 by Igor Dubinskyy and the player on the button called. Michaelis made it 23,000 to go and just Dubinskyy called. On a flop he bet 15,000 into 50,000 and Dubinskyy called before doing so again for 50,000 on a turn.
The river paired the board and Michaelis moved all in for effectively 90,000, as that's what Dubinskyy had left. The Ukrainian called with ace-king and Michaelis had pocket tens for a turned set and rivered full house.
Omid Mojaverian still seems the man to beat in the last level of the night, though, while Boris Kolev also nears half a million in chips.
Thomas Mercier opened the button for 6,200 and small blind Jean-Jacques Zeitoun called. Big blind Timothy Adams squeezed all in for 57,600 and Mercier tanked long before releasing his cards into the muck.
Now it was Zeitoun with the decision and he tanked for a bit before deciding to call.
Jean-Jacques Zeitoun:
Timothy Adams:
The flop came and Adams asked for a seven. Instead, the hit and Adams now asked for a king. He got neither an no ace would appear either. The hit and Adams started to gather his things before exiting.
Ante Varnica got his last 100,000 or so in preflop with but early opener Cathal Shine had him beat with . The board ran out devoid of help for Varnica and he took his leave.
Team PokerStars Pro Fatima Moreira de Melo is ready to take on the challenge of the almighty Christmas Quiz at the PokerStars Championship in Prague, but time is running thin. Will she finish it in time?
James Mitchell had previously built his stack after coolering Dean Hutchison with full house versus full house before taking on Jaroslaw Sikora. The Pole himself doubled a few minutes ago and now three-bet from 7,000 to 25,000. Mitchell called in the cutoff to see a flop of and Sikora bet 16,500, which Mitchell called. After the turn, Sikora checked and quickly folded to a bet of 21,000.
Down to around 72,000, Sikora's chips were soon after integrated into the tower of Viliyan Petleshkov to see the EPT12 Prague €10,300 High Roller runner-up and EPT12 Malta third-place finisher bow out in the last level of Day 2.