Three new entries include the two Brazilians Gustavo "22ehnutzz" Mastelotto and Yuri "theNERDguy" Martins as well as Thomas "WushuTM" Muehloecker. The latter was involved in the action right away and defended the big blind against a raise by Pascal "Pass_72" Lefrancois.
Muehloecker check-raised the flop from 14,400 to 42,072 which won the pot without any further resistance.
Scott "Aggro Santos" Margereson three-bet big to 32,400 and was called by initial raiser Talal "raidalot" Shakerchi, which led to the flop. Margereson continued for 17,532 and was called by Shakerchi to then check-call a bet of 37,895 on the turn.
Margereson had 76,928 behind to the river and check-called the shove of Shakerchi with the only to get shown for a straight.
Ben "jenbizzle" Jones raised to 9,000 and was called by Pascal "Pass_72" Lefrancois in the cutoff. Gustavo "22ehnutzz" Mastelotto on the button made it 29,000 to go and both players called.
On a flop of , the action checked to Mastelotto and he bet 22,600, which Jones called. Lefrancois check-raised to 54,000 and both opponents made the call after some hesitation.
The fell on the turn and Jones checked, Lefrancois bet 126,144 with 10 behind and Mastelotto eventually folded while Jones checked. The fell on the river and they checked it through, Jones tabled and that won the pot.
Lefrancois was forced all-in the next hand and busted to Adrian "Amadi_017" Mateos.
Simon "C. Darwin2" Mattsson was eliminated and entered for a second time, and the same applied for Scott "Aggro Santos" Margereson and Pascal "Pass_72" Lefrancois.
Soon after sitting down again, Lefrancois lost another massive pot when his flopped top pair with got the chips in after the turn against "BOOGANDEHAH" with the . The river was a blank and "BOOGANDEHAH" doubled.
Another double belonged to Francisco "Tomatee" Benitez who won a classic flip with against the of Sergei "Futti18" Koliakov.
Jason "JASON.MAC100" McConnon raised to 8,800 and Charlie "Epiphany77" Carrel three-bet the button to 34,800, which McConnon called. The flop was checked by McConnon and he then called a bet of 16,000 by Carrel.
The turn went check, check, and McConnon check-called all-in for 107,668 on the river.
Carrel had the best of it with while McConnon bowed out with for kings and jacks.
Linus "LLinusLLove" Loeliger was getting short and then got it in with against the of Luke "Bit2Easy" Reeves. The board ran out for Loeliger to double.
Gianluca "Tankanza" Speranza had dropped below half the starting stack but bounced back while "Pwndidi" was sent to the rail along with Artur "mararthur1" Martirosyan, Wiktor "limitless" Malinowski and Vicent "gordon0410" Bosca.
Martirosyan defended his big blind against "Leanod" and then bet the turn before jamming the river with the . "Leanod" quickly called with the for a flush.
mararthur1 eliminated
The elimination of Malinowski came in a far bigger pot. Until the , the pot was only 35,174 and Malinowski bet 26,380 in the cutoff. Juan "Malaka$tyle" Pardo check-jammed for an effective 268,950 and Malinowski called all-in with the for a set while Pardo tabled for the nuts.
In the second break of the day, there are 58 players out of 70 entries remaining.
In one of the final hands before the break, Niklas "Lena900" Astedt in the cutoff clashed with "Nacho124441" in the small blind and they got their stacks in after the turn. Astedt was the player at risk with while "Nacho124441" held for the inferior flushdraw.
The river brought the and Astedt doubled.
Sergei "Futti18" Koliakov was not as fortunate after the break and his lost a flip to the of "DON_CHICHO21" on a board of . Koliakov re-entered right back into the same seat.