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Day Two will bring together the remaining 84 players at 4pm (3pm UK time).

Table 5

Antoine Chuzeville
Dave Colclough
Michel Akrich
Pascal Barrau
Mads Andersen
Jason Lee
Remi Biechel
Georges Teboul
Otto Richard

Table 6

John Kabbaj
Atanas Gueorguieu
Ray Coburn
Johan Storakers
Brad Libson
Karsten Johanssen
Kirill Rabtsov
Paul Testud
Peter Politis

Table 7

Will Ma
Patrick Schull
Pier Paolo Ruscalla
Eric Larcheveque
Vivian Anseline
Stephane Gouverneur
Daniel Bertelsen
Aleaksandr Dzianisau
Brian Johnson

Table 8

Nasrodin Pirmamod
Thomas Belleuvre
Adrien Gavile
Gilbert Chahine
Peter Gould
Daniel Donnabedian
Samir Shakhtoor
Nikolai Evdakov
Janne Lamsa

Table 9

Russell Carson
Xavier Detournel
Jan Boubli
Walid Bouhabib
Istuan Pelyhe
Vikash Dhorasso
Jason Lester
Nichlas Saarisilta
Ram Vaswani
Jeff Wallace

Table 10

David Redlin
Alexander Kuzmin
Jeffrey Lisandro
Mark Teltscher
Ryad Abour
Turgut Guner
Noel Gaens
Freddy Deeb
Mad Derwich
Paul Gourlay

Table 11

Christophe Cabras
Antoine Nouel
Pascal Perrault
Tor Gammelgard
Nikolai Losev
Yuri Kerzhapkin
Szawomir Rydinsky
Eric Cajelais
Marc Goodwin

Table 12

Francois Demoly
Patric Martensson
Elie Marciano
Csaba Kuremszki
Wasek Lukasz
Philippe Narboni
Guillaume de la Gorce
Runar Runarsson
Patrick Bueno

Table 14

Ramzi Jelassi
Yevgeniy Timoshenko
Mats Iremark
Clement Amagat
Guillaume Darcourt
Carlos da Silva
Eric Koskas
Sorel Mizzi
Alain Layani
Nikolas Liakos

Someone has already exited, Mats Iremark in fact, his Ac Jc failing to outdraw Eric Koskas's Ahrt Kd, the board bringing down an emphatic Kh 5d 2h 8s 3s which led to the Swede exiting before the turn of the River.

84 down to 83.

Flurry of early action - Pascal Perrault moves in on the cutoff with Ts Td and the short stacked big blind, Yuri Kerzhapkin, calls with 5d 5s. 
Flop:  Ac 7c 2c
Turn:  4s  (and we're probably all thinking it now, I just can't help it any more, unhealthy though it is)...
River:   3d   Double through for straightened Yuri, and everyone's opinion on live poker is confirmed. 

Guillaume Darcourt is OUT.

Raised to 2k with Jacks, Alain Layani re-raised to 8k with Kings, Guillaume pushed for 17k total and Alain, of course, called, although Ramzi pretended he dwelt up as he was retelling the tale.

No help arrived.

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Remi Biechel is also OUT.

Down to 7k, Remi pushed all-in with Kc 6c, but was picked off by Ad Jh which caught two emphatic Aces.

Marc Goodwin is OUT, leaving without a parting thought.

Oh, except for the phrase, "The French are f-ing muppets, and you can quote me on that." I don't think I will though... oh, oops.  ;whistle;

Probably not the best of places to make that observation with an exclamation, but although a slight generalistation, it's hard not to sympathise.

Under the gun, Marc made it 2.1k to play with Aspades Qs only for his French ami (or en-ami) to raise another 4k. Marc pushed for 23k and Frenchieboy made an incredible call with J-To, leaving himself with just 2k behind.

Of course, the A-Q went bust, to a salt-in-wound-rubbing full house, leaving MrCool with a somewhat bitter taste in his mouth.

Bad news for MrCool, but great news for the nearest bar.

Pascal Perrault and his technicoloured dreamshirt is OUT, crushed by a Tens vs. Fives on a 7-A-2-4-3 board (ouch!) before moving his shortstack in with the next half decent hand, but running into Aces. Not a good day at the office.

Eric Larcheveque is OUT -

Ge called a cutoff raise from Patrick Schull in the small blind, as did big blind Vivian Anseline.  The flop came:  7h 3h Jd.  Eric bet out 1,500.  Vivian raised to 4,500.  Patrick had lost interest by now, but Eric called when it got back to him.
Turn:  Js.  Eric checked - a multicoloured stack measuring about 7,725 went in.  After a little think, he said it, the one-word shove:  "Tapis."  It was another 12k or so to Anseline, and he eventually called, showing Jc Qd, good against Eric's 9s 9c. 

As he left the room, tablemate Brian Johnson said he knew exactly what was going on there as after letting himself be pushed off earlier by Larcheveque he was later made aware that his ex-opponent wasn't exactly the tightest of players and had been after his stack.  Too late!

Peter Gould has doubled through courtesy of Samir Shakhtoor, flopping a cracking 2h 8h Qd Flop with Ahrt Qh, betting out 4k and having the Swede make an over-the-top for 20k move at the wrong time with just one pair. The Queen stood up leaving Mr Gould with just over 50k.

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Unfortunate early fallers also include...

Ray Coburn
Eric Cajelais
Francois Demoly

Double up for Mad Derwich, J-J vs. A-K, Q-Q-4-2-7 board following by a deep exhale.

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Another double up, this time Szawomir Rydinsky.

Rydinsky = Kc Kd

Nikolai Losev = 9s 9c

All-in, call.

Turn = 5d

River = 8h

Jan Boubli, who was one of the chip leaders, has just been taken down by Ram Vaswani, the Hendon Mobber jumping up to 100k as a result.

However, Ram just put the finishing touches on, big A-Q vs. K-K, Q-Q vs. K-K and T-T vs. A-A confrontations being what truly killed Boubli off.

Tough break, but I guess he was behind on each one.

EVERYBODY gets involved on Table Deeb now...

Jeff Lisandro raised in early position, and found a re-raiser in Ryad Abour - to 4,500 from perhaps 1,800.  Freddy Deeb called on the button, Paul Gourlay called on the big blind, early position limper David Redlin called too and then it got back to Lisandro, who shoved...
The pot had already becomed around 23k, and Lisandro was all-in for 24,700.

Ryad Abour passed with a troubled expression and a medium dwell.
Freddy Deeb passed with calm Stoicism.
Paul Gourlay passed after about 10 minutes' dwell and very reluctantly.
David Redlin passed as if he'd just been waiting to do so all along.

"Now we're playing hold'em!"  Announces Jeffrey Lisandro, winning the Stating the Obvious prize of the day.
"I should have called there, eh Freddy?" asks Gourlay, who'd showed his J-J before throwing them away.  "I think I'm ahead but it's a race at best..."
To which Lisandro:  "Hey, two to one, 50/50 - what the F-?"

So a flop-free double up for the lairy seat 4, he'll be trouble now...

Break over - blinds now 400/800 ante 75.

They are well and truly mixed around now from the starting tables, but I am going to endeavour to gather chip counts, a couple of tables at a time....

Table Lisandro:

David Redlin     75,000
Alexander Kuzmin  49,500
Jeff Lisandro      50,500
Russell Carson     32,700
Ryad Abour       38,500
Guillaume Darcourt  10,575
Freddy Deeb        60,000
Mad Derwich        21,875
Paul Gourlay         20,550

Table Freakonomics

Christophe Cabras   27,500
Antoine Nouel        24,600
Jeff Wallace           57,000
Tor Gammelgard     58,000
Nikolai Losev          68,000
Yuri Kerzhapkin      36,600
Ramzi Jelassi          18,300
Turgut Guner        24,000

More counts:

Table UK Chip Leader

Xavier Detournel   56,200
Nikolas Liakos       42,000
Walid Bouhabib     21,000
Istuan Pelyhe       37,300
Vikash Dhorasso    35,500
Jason Lester         13,000
Nichlas Saarisilta     47,000
Ram Vaswani         90,000
Yevgeniy Timoshenko  26,500

Table Gould

Nasrodin Pirmamod   8,800
Thomas Belleuvre     17,500
Adrien Gavile           54,000
Gilbert Chahine        53,000
Peter Gould            62,000
Daniel Donnabedian  45,000
Samir Shakhtoor       78,250
Nikolai Evdakov         88,000
Janne Lamsa            32,000

Lamsa only just doubled up to that number, moving in as a third preflop raise over the top of button Gavile (raised to 1,800) and small blind Chahine (raised to 5,800).  He held 9d 9s, which stayed ahead of his caller's Aspades Qd. 

Straight from the horse's mouth (I'm not calling him a horse mind)...

"After one A-K, no A-A, K-K or Q-Q on Day 1, I picked up A-K second hand and picked up the blinds.

Then I called a raise with A-T of diamonds, before checking an A-Q-5 Flop. I then called off 10k on the Turn and River (5k per street) only to be show A-Q.

I struggled on 12-15k for most of Level 2 before picking up A-K and winning a 4k pot. Flop was A-K-T.

Then, I won a 10k battle of the blinds with A-3 versus 5-6 on an A-7-8. Of course, he missed his draw.

At the moment, I have 26k"

Spot of luck for Mads Andersen, somehow surviving an all-in with A-3 vs. A-J, the board bring out a very chop-like K-Q-4-5-4 for a split pot.

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Nasrodin Pirmamod, who, I hear, is a millionaire gambling tutor and part-time sex doctor, has just been eliminated by Adrien Gavile, who smooth called Nasrodin's shortstacked 8.5k all-in from early position.

Nasrodin = Ahrt 6h

Gavile = Kd Kc

Board = Qd Th Jc 6s 3h

Brian Johnson is OUT, the empty seat on Table 7 signifying his sudden departure.

Mad Derwich is OUT - all in preflop with Tc Td vs. the Ahrt Kd of the unstoppable Jeff Lisandro.  All clear until the river brought a King, knocking him out and dragging Lisandro's stack up to a tidy 63k or so.  Their table is now breaking, as we're down to 63 players.  Lisandro pictured waving, not trying to get me to go away.
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Lengthiest Dwell Prize goes to Turgut Guner (pictured top) after Yuri Kerzhapkin moved in on the river for 19k into a 13k pot, with the board:  6d 9c Kd 5h 4h.  No call, but I watched this hand for about ten minutes and so it's getting reported.

A few chippy counts that our viewers may be interested in:

Ramzi Jelassi -- 17,600
Sami Shakhtoor -- 59,100
John Kabbaj -- 53,225
Freddie Deeb -- 69,675
Ram Vaswani -- 84,075
Brad Libson -- 18,500
Noel Gaens -- 24,150
Jeff Lisandro -- 95,325
Paul Gourlay -- 34,450
Peter Gould -- 75,525
Daniel Smits -- 22,525
Dave Colclough -- 63,200

Table Blondie

Antoine Chuzeville    12,550
Dave Colclough        62,000  (I double took as his stack has just ballooned this level - will ask him things in the break)
Michael Akrich          57,400
David Redlin             97,500
Daniel Bertelsen       20,000
Jason Lee               38,550
Alain Layani             20,675
Georges Teboul       27,500
Otto Richard            43,500

Table Testud Has A Pig Mascot Which Makes the Most Unbelievable Noises

John Kabbaj             51,000
Freddy Deeb            80,000
Sorel Mizzi                30,300
Johan Storakers        18,500
Brad Libson              23,400
Karsten Johanssen     12,300
Kirill Rabtsov              66,500
Paul Testud              90,000
Peter Politis              25,600

I join the action with around 50-60k already in the pot, Jeff pushing in around 30k (covering his opponent, PP Ruscalla) and the board reading...

5s Th 3d 8d

Ruscalla calls and Jeff asks, in that familiarly confident manner, "So, have you got Jacks or Queens?"

"Tens," replies Roscalla.

Slightly concerned, Jeff reveals Kh Kd, but breathes a big sigh of relief when he sees that he has his opponent drawing dead to two cards with a surprisingly vulnerable and perhaps not biggest-pot-of-the-night inducing Kc Td.

River = 5c

Ruscalla gone, Lisandro new chip leader with circa 160k.

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Table Lisandro:

Will Ma         76k
Eric Koskas   16k
Vivian Anseline   85k
Stephane Gourverneur  46k
Jeff Lisandro    160k
Aleaksandr Dzianisau  46k
Paul Gourlay      32k

15 minute break......

Dave Colclough is at 75k during this break, after what he calls some "French hospitality..."  Despite seeing no big pairs this comp, and only one lone A-K today, he's built up from about 15k to his present stack playing a lot of mediocre starting hands from the wonderful big blind.  Here's a breakdown:

1)  After there's one limper - Georges Teboul - he sees a J-8-4 (one diamond) flop in the big blind, holding Jd Qd.  He checks, Teboul bets 2.5k, he raises to 6k.  Call.
Turn:  6d  DC moves in for 16.5k (the diamond giving his confidence in his hand a boost).  He gets a dwell-call (leading him to pessimistically suspect J-K or some such hand) but it turns out he was doubled through by an optimistic 8-9.

2)  In the bb again with Kh 8h it was 2,600 to go with one caller, DC goes for it, "for the value." 
Flop: Kd-9c-4c check-check-check
The turn pairs the four - the 4d bringing the double flush draw.  David Redlin bets 4k, and gets called in the middle - now not so sure that his King is the best hand, he calls.
River: 3c  "I'm now in check-call mode," says Dave, but it checks round, the King stood up.  "Easy pot."

3) In the bb with 4-4 Teboul raises, Dave smooth calls... 2-3-5 the flop. Dave checks, Teboul bets, Dave calls.
Turn  6  Dave bets 5k on his turned straight, and gets a speedy call.
River is a blank... DC leads out 6k, hoping his opponent has a pair...no, he gets not a penny more, being shown the perhaps unexpected A-Q...

Karsten Johansen (right) limps for 1,200, Brad Lipson (left) moves in for 6,150 more from the big blind, Karsten calls.

Karsten = 4c 4h

Brad = Kc Qh

Board = Td Qd Aspades Ac 9h

Libson doubles through.

Karsten Johanssen is OUT - After a double limp, from Paul Testud under the gun and later position Freddy Deeb, Karsten Johanssen moved in on the small blind for perhaps 20k...Testud instacalled, which put Freddy off, if he'd been considering it.  "Showdown!" impatiently demands observer Johan Storakers, for no apparent reason (there must be some kind of tedious-dwell history on that table, for example).
Karsten shows:  Kh Qs
Paul shows:  Js Jc

Flop:  Aspades 9h Ad
Turn:  Jh
And he was already halfway out of the room as the irrelevant 6h came down.

Double up for Ramzi, who, according to the youthful Swede, played his first hand in four hours.  ;carlocitrone; ;joestrummer;

All-in pre-flop.

Ramzi Jelassi = Ad Qh

Runar Runarsson = Kc Tc

Board = 4c Kh 7s Aspades 9c

Down to just 15k, a dejected Runar cries, "Every time I lose it's to a redraw."

Looks like the constantly short-stacked Brad Libson has exited stage left. Two other Americans aren't fairing too much better, Jeff Wallace and Jason Lee both struggling with 13,300 and 13,575 respectively.

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The bearer of the sugary gifts, Sorel Mizzi, has just moved all-in for 15k with Qs Ts only to be called by Noel Gaens in the big blind with Kh 5h.

The 6s Jd 8h Ac Flop and Turn looked good for Gaens, but he's been having a rough time of it recently, and could only bang the table, although hesitantly, as the River dealt out a vicious Qh.

Wasek Lukasz has doubled up. He raised it up to 4k with Ac Ad, and was silently overjoyed to see Guillaume de la Gorce move all-in behind him for around 20k more with Qh Qs.

Lukasz called like lightening, as you would, and fisted the air upon seeing the 2h Kh 4s 5d 2d board.

Gorce down to the felt.

Samir Shakhtoor Suckout News Now:

All-in with J-J against the Q-Q of Nikolai Evdakov, a Jack appearing on the river sparked a full table, "Oooh."  That caught our attention, which was held as they counted down Samir's stack - 62,700 which is now a very healthy double that, while his neighbour is down to around 40k.

John Kabbaj -- 44475
Peter Gould -- 75,025
Freddie Deeb -- 72,250
Jeff lisandro -- 156,850
Dave Colclough -- 37,500
Sorel Mizzi -- 51,700
Noel Gaens -- 33,600
Ram Vaswani -- 128,975
Jeff Wallace -- 14,800
Jason Lee -- 13,350

Double takedown for Csaba Kuremski, with the monster known as Aspades 7s... 3k from Ramzi, call from Csaba, all-in from a short-stacked Antoine Chuzeville, Ramzi goes for it too, and Csaba Kuremski, covering them both, decides he wants in on it.

A wincing table says goodbye to both all-in players as they get outdrawn by what I am guessing was a flush.  "Nice hand Not," says a leaving Ramzi/Borat (out of table earshot, of course), understandably not best pleased. 

Dinner break in 4 minutes.

Adrien Gavile raises to 3,500 from under the gun plus one only for Vikash Dhorasso to make it 8,000 from the big blind.

Adrien re-raised to 13,500 and Vikash called.

Flop = Q-3-7

Vikash pushed all-in and Adrien calls.

Vikash = Kh Js

Adrien = Ad Ac

Turn = 3

River = 5

Vikash leaves the cardroom.

***********************************90 Minute Dinner Break****************************************

See you after we visit the underfloor fish restaurant....

We're back, the blinds are 800/1,600 ante 150.  They put little stickers with the chip count on them on their stacks during the dinner break, but due to reasons beyond our control*, we only just got back in time for the restart.


*Dave's and my food didn't arrive.  Just writing up the counts which speedy Snoopy and I managed to get as they took their seats (N.B. Not totally comprehensive - one table left uncounted):

Christophe Cabras    27,500
Antoine Nouel         61,171
Jeff Wallace            16,300
Tor Gammelgard      98,025
Yuri Kerzhapkin        20,000
Szawomir Rydinsky   38,325
Atanas Gueorguieu   40,475
Turgut Guner          24,000

Nikolai Evdakov         36,925
Clement Amagat       46,825
Csaba Kuremski         69,975
Wasek Lukasz           39,975
Nikolai Losev             40,150
Runar Runarsson       23,875
Nichlas Saarisilta       224,300

Dave Colclough        34,300
Michael Akrich         83,000
David Redlin            38,600
Daniel Bertelsen       19,350
Jason Lee                12,150
Alain Layani              31,250
Xavier Detournel       57,525
Otto Richard            90,300

Walid Bouhabib         15,600
Thomas Belleuvre      OUT
Adrien Gavile           104,675
Gilbert Chahine         46,500
Peter Gould             73,325
Daniel Donnabedian   70,450
Samir Shakhtoor       125,200
Janne Lamsa             39,225

Down to 45, the latest exit being Alain Layani, knocked out by Michel Akrich, threes v jacks, 2-9-5-A-8 board, 3 hearts on the flop, but none in their hands.

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Dave Colclough raises 5k from the button, David Redlin re-raises another 30k or so from the big blind, and Dave calls for his remaining 30k stack.

So Dave v Dave, the elder (Colclough) way in the lead with Ahrt Kd versus Aspades 9s, and even more so come the 3d Kh 5c board. 8c Turn, Qs River.

Paul Gourlay limps on the button for 1,600, small blind Will Ma completes and big blind Ram Vaswani checks.  Flop:  Qd Aspades 6s  Check to Paul, who bets 2,600.  Ram calls.
Turn:  Qh  check-check
River:  Kd  Ram bets out 7k.  Paul counts it out - it's just over half his stack... eventually he throws it in, and shows Ahrt Th, splitting the pot with Ram's Ad 8d.
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Janne Lamsa is OUT - a pretty much auto-all-in with a very short stack (something tells me I just missed a hand where he lost most of his chips, although was never on a particularly big stack today) it was up to Nikolas Liakos to make the call of just a few thousand - not sure exactly how much, he said, "It doesn't matter - I call" showing Ad Ks, good against the final Qc 3d of Lamsa. 

Paul Gourlay raises to 5k from the button, Ram Vaswani moves the Geordie in for his last 15k.

Paul = Qs Qc

Ram = Ad Jd

Board = 2h 9h 2c 6s 2s

Big exhale and gentle tap of the table from Paul as he collects a 40k+ pot.

Prize Structure (as copied off the TV screens):

1  €422,560
2  €224,480
3  €158,460 
4  €105,640
5   €79,230
6   €66,020
7   €52,820
8   €39,615
9   €26,410
10-13 €19,810
14-18 €13,205

Peter Gould is all but out, left with just 6.5k after Daniel Donnabedian moved all-in on an Ahrt 8s Qd 6h board, Pete's A-8 in bad shape against Daniel's A-Q.

King River was of no use.

Peter even called it pre-flop, saying, "Have you got that Ace Queen again?"

With the blinds at 800 and 1,600 with a running ante of 150, Aleaksander Dzianisan raises to 11,000 under-the-gun.

Sorel announces 'raise' and puts in 4,450, only to be told that there had been a raise before him.

Sorel asks for a ruling from the floor, and is promptly told by the Tournament Director that he has to raise at least another 11,000 because he announcing the action verbally.

With this in mind, Sorel reluctantly puts in 22,000.

After everyone else had folded, play returns to Aleaksander Dziansan who swiftly moves all-in for the rest of his 20k (approx) chips.

Dziansan looks confident as he turns over the Ladies, but not so when he spots Sorel's Pocket Cowboys.

Raggy Flop of no use and Dziansan is sent packing.

Sorel Mizzi gets involved in a big pot against button Vivian Anseline... caught it on the turn with the board 9d 8s Kh 7d.  Sorel bet out 16k into a pot which had already reached the 20k mark, and after a suitable dwell, Vivian moved in.  It was just 13k more for Sorel to call with his 4d 5d, which he duly did, finding his opponent holding 9c 9s, and rivering the fourth Nine for good measure.  Down to 36k for Mizzi.

Koskas raised it up pre-flop (and under-the-gun) to 5,500, only to receive two smooth callers (the call is smooth not Gourlay  ;hide;) in Paul Gourlay and Ram Vaswani.

Flop = Qs Qc 5c

Koskas pushes all-in for 34.5k, Paul folds, albeit after a brief session in the think tank, and Ram nonchalantly calls.

Ram = Ac 8c

Koskas = 6c 6s

Turn = 2c

River = 4h

... and Koskas is gone.

To my delight, I said to Dutch blogger Vincent that I thought Paul had either Eights or Nines, and I was right, he'd let go of the latter.

Double up for Runar Runarsson, A-8 v 7-7, K-8-6-8-5 board.

He's now on 30-35k.

Speak of the devil, Paul 'Rocket Man' Gourlay has just doubled up against Ram Vaswani, all the chips flying in on a 5h 8s Qh, Ram's plea of "Show me a flush draw" with Ahrt 8h goes unanswered as Paul turns over Ks Qd.

Turn = 6s

"Black," demands Gourlay, whose prayers were answered.

River = 6d

Paul now up to around 70k with 35 players left.

Runar Runarsson doubles up courtesy of Nichlas Saarisilta:  Runar raised to 6,400 (the blinds now 1,200/2,400) on the cutoff, and found Nichlas on the button re-raising a further 10k.  Runar shoved when it got back to him (another 17k, it looked like) and got a quicker-than-expected call from Nichlas with his Jh Tc.  Runar's Qh Qs held up, although a flopped Jack might have increased the tension a little.
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Samir Shakhtoor raised to 5,800 on the cutoff, called by small blind Will Ma.  Flop:  3d Qs 5h  Check-check.  Turn:  2s  Will bets out 7k, gets a prompt raise to 24k and passes.

Daniel Donnabadien is OUT, spanked by Freddie Deeb. Didn't catch the hand, but the board had T-4-6-2-J, Deeb had Kings and Donnabadien had a face like a smacked bottom.

Meanwhile, David Redlin has just seen off Michel Akrich, Tc Ts vs. 8d 8h, the board bringing a bowel fluctuating flush draw...

7d 2d 6c Kd 5h

Dave Colclough is OUT.

Made his move A-6s, but ran into Pocket Kings which promptly made Quads.

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Full (rough) counts with a half hour left until close of play (from Jen, sadly down a computer, hopefully not for the duration)...

Nikolai Evdakov   41k
Clement Amagot   35k
Csaba Kuremski     86k
Wasek Lukasz       18k
Turgut Guner       63k
Runar Runarsson   42k
Nichlas Saalisilta    244k

Jeff Wallace         34k
David Redlin        220k
Nikolas Liakos       56k
Yuri Kerzhapkin     29k
Xavier Detournel    54k
Noel Antoine         77k

Otto Richard         155k
Freddy Deeb         265k
Georges Teboul     100k
Johan Storakers      70k
Wahid Bouhabib    OUT
Tor Gammelgard    115k
Kirill Rabtsov          62k
Adrien Gavile         114k

Will Ma             130k
Ram Vaswani     122k
Atanas Gueorguieu  78k
Vivian Anseline     63k
Christophe Cabras  53k
Jeff Lisandro        162k
Samir Shakhtoor   150k
Paul Gourlay         78k

Nikolas Liakos has just doubled up in relatively easy circumstances.

Samir Shakhtoor made it 5,200 from the button, Nikolas Liakos re-raised to 16,700 from the small blind, Samir asked how much he had left, the answer was 36k (36.2k to be precise), Samir put him all in, Nikolas called instantly.

Nikolas = Ac Ad

Samir = Kd 9c

Board = 6c 8d 5c Th 6d

Down to 27, and subsequently 2 table, Polish player Lukaz Wasek being the latest to bite dust.

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Sorel Mizzi was one of the recent exits, raising with 8-5 and calling with a pair and a straight draw come the Flop. Second source details I'm afriad, but the Canadian is definitely gone.

Xavier Detournel is OUT.

A Queens v Aces jobbie, Runar Runarsson with the Aces and Xavier calling for his tournament life on the 4d Js 5d.

4s Turn, Th River, following by a big celebratory shout from Runarsson.

Play has ended for the day...

Ram Vaswani -- 152,800
Paul Gourlay -- 63,900
Nikolai Evdakov -- 36,500
Atanas Gueorguieu -- 91,000
Jeff Lisandro -- 150,800
Csaba Kuremski -- 115,000
Will Ma -- 130,200
Vivian Anseline -- 57,400
Christophe Cabras -- 59,100
Runar Runarsson -- 133,900
Sami Shakhtoor -- 72,600
Nichlas Saalisilta -- 253,600
Nikolas Liakos -- 140,800
Antoine Nouel -- 71,600
Yury Kerzhepkin -- 23,700
Jeff Wallace -- 61,700
David Redlin -- 202,700
Otto Richard -- 138,300
Freddie Deeb -- 262,500
Clement Amagot -- 25,300
Adrien Gavile -- 114,400
Tor Gammelgard -- 165,700
Kirill Rabstov -- 33,400
Johan Storakers -- 61,600
Turgut Gunar -- 43,900
Georges Teboul -- 121,800