In a battle big blind versus cutoff, Gianluca "Tankanza" Speranza defended and check-called three barrels including the shove of Luke "Bit2Easy" Reeves on a board of .
Speranza had flopped two pair with but Reeves scored the double with after his nutflushdraw instead went runner-runner for the wheel.
Charlie "Epiphany77" Carrel opened to 6,688 from under the gun and was called by Gianluca "Tankanza" Speranza from two seats over. Jason "JASON.MAC100" McConnon on the button three-bet to 24,176 and that was called by Carrel only for Speranza to claim the pot with a four-bet.
Vicent "gordon0410" Bosca tried the same with a four-bet to 46,400 out of the small blind when facing a cutoff raise by "blooming94" and a button three-bet by Talal "raidalot" Shakerchi. The former folded and Shakerchi then five-bet jammed. Bosca used a portion of his time bank and called with , Shakerchi had and they chopped on a board.
In a three-bet pot between Ben "jenbizzle" Jones from under the gun and Roman "Radioromashka" Emelyanov in the small blind, the latter fired three barrels on a board of . Jones called all the way and his won the pot as Emelyanov only had .
Other players that have boosted their stack within the first hour of play are Mike "SirWatts" Watson,Adrian "Amadi_017" Mateos and Juan "Malaka$tyle" Pardo.
The third all-in showdown of the day so far resulted in the first elimination and it was Charlie "Epiphany77" Carrel that came up short in a flip against Sam "Str8$$$Homey" Greenwood.
Charlie "Epiphany77" Carrel:
Sam "Str$888Homey" Greenwood:
On a board of , Greenwood improved to a pair of kings and subsequently added some more chips to his stack while Carrel re-entered and took a seat on the same table again.
Sam "Str8$$$Homey" Greenwood raised to 5,400 and was three-bet to 16,800 by Luke "Bit2Easy" Reeves, which was called by the Canadian. They opted to check the flop and Greenwood then bet the turn for 26,136 and the river for 76,800.
Greenwood turned over the for a set of jacks to scoop the pot.
At nearly the same time, Talal "raidalot" Shakerchi four-bet jammed into Joris "BillLewinsky" Ruijs and the Dutchman called to set up the first all-in showdown of the day.
Ruijs was at risk with the and Shakerchi took the flip with . The board came and Ruijs doubled with a pair of kings.