After betting 130,000 on a 9♦Q♥7♠ flop, Uri Scholderle and Christoph Bilinsky saw a K♠ turn.
"How much do you have?" Scholderle asked, before tapping the table again. They checked again on an A♣. Scholderle showed queen-jack for a pair of jacks, enough to beat Bilinsky's pair of nines with jack-nine. Scholderle continued to chip up.
Christopher Basile built a mountain of chips in front of him. In middle position, he opened to 100,000 and all players folded. He showed A♠Q♥ and continued to build a massive stack of 3,000,000 chips.
Just behind him, Ciaran Duffy is also among the chipleaders with 2,500,000.
In the same time, German player Martin Finger got eliminated. Less than 150 players are still in contention.
From an early position, Justin Levitt put all his 255,000 chips in the middle. On the button, John Cipriano called, but Eric Hall in the small blind reraised all-in for 1,500,000. Cipriano preferred not to take the risk to continue in this hand, so he folded, leaving his two opponents to reveal their cards.
Justin Levitt: Q♠8♠
Eric Hall: J♠J♣
Levitt was already standing up when he saw the flop K♦4♠9♦. The 5♥ arrived on the turn, and the 2♠ on the river, leading to Levitt's elimination.
William Bradbury was about to get blinded in so he put his chips in the pot under the gun for about 100,000, Qiang Xu called from the big blind.
William Bradbury: 3♥7♦
Qiang Xu: K♠7♣
The board ran out with 2♣J♥A♣10♥Q♠ and Xu added to his stack.
Matthew Stahl put his tournament on the line and moved all in from the button. Kevin Theodore called from the small blind.
Matthew Stahl: 9♠9♥
Kevin Theodore: K♦Q♣
Theodore immediately pulled into the lead on the 6♠Q♥3♦ flop, and held fast on a 8♣ turn and a 10♣ river, and Stahl added his name to the list of early Day 2 payouts.
The middle position player, Dominic Feldman moved all in for about 250,000. The cutoff, Qiang Xu, three-bet to 400,000 and the button, Edwin Chang pushed all of his chips in the middle for 455,000. Three players were sweating the board.
Dominic Feldman: A♦K♣
Edwin Chang: Q♦Q♠
Qiang Xu: A♣K♠
Chang stated, "I have a chance."
Until the board came out with 5♠6♣5♣A♠6♦ and the two big slick hands chopped, with Xu taking the side pot.
Nível: 25
Blinds: 25,000/50,000
Ante: 50,000
With less than 170 players left, [Removed:599] found an important double-up.
The Frenchman held Ax10x against KxQx and stayed ahead to climb to 650,000.
Meanwhile another Frenchman in contention, Sebastien Comel, is off to a good start with 2,300,000 chips in front of him.
Down to only three blinds, Florian Guertler had no choice but to move all-in with a pair in early position. In the big blind, Yota Yamaguchi saw an Ace in his hands and called.
Florian Guertler: 5♥5♣
Yota Yamaguchi: A♥8♥
Stress was clearly visible on Guertler's face. But on a Q♠2♦K♦10♥5♦ board, he could take a deep breath as he doubled up.
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