Until the turn, a massive pot of 75,000 had emerged and Carlos Chadha moved all in for his last 8,650 chips. Huidong Gu studied the board for a while and then called with the for a flush draw, only to find himself drawing dead to the of Chadha.
Besides Lili Kiletto, Charlie Carrel and Anton Astapau have already ran out of chips and decided to purchase a second bullet. One single reentry is allowed in the tournament until the start of Day 2.
Further additions to the field: Marvin Rettenmaier and Anton Astapau.
Emil Ekvardt has only now been spotted in the field and lost all but 4,000 chips after being unable to beat the of Armen Khachatryan. The board had run out , which doesn't leave much choices of what the Swede may have had.
Yorane Kerignard was all in for 28,300 heads-up with Lily Kellito on a flop with a little over 40,000 already in the pot as Kiletto sat mulling it over.
"How did I get myself into this," she said, looking over her 36,300-chip stack. "Best case scenario: ."
After a short period of time she apologized for taking too long with the decision. Three minutes later, a third player at the table called the clock. Kiletto was given some additional time to act by the Floor, who then put her on a 60-second clock a little over two minutes later.
Then suddenly, she called, turning over the . Kerignard had her crushed with and after the run out, Kiletto is down to 8,000 on her second bullet while Kerignard joins those with an early double near the top of the counts.
Anton Wigg, who won his entry through a Live Satellite and already picked up an EPT trophy here on Malta, as well as Davidi Kitai, Benny Spindler and 10k Single-Day High Roller finalist Niko Soininen have entered the competition.
With just around 7,000 chips in the pot to the river of a board, Vladimir Dobrovolskiy moved all in for 16,750 chips. Byron Kaverman, currently enjoying a massage, glanced over to the other side of the table and has experienced quite a decent start with more than double the starting stack.
Kaverman also finished ninth in the €10,000 Single-Day High Roller event and eventually decided to fold.
Ihar Soika opened and Steve O'Dwyer squeezed to 3,100 from the small blind. Soika then four-bet to 6,900 and O'Dwyer shoved for effective half his stack only to see Soika snap-call all in for 30,225.
Soika:
O'Dwyer:
The flop pretty much locked up the hand for the Belorussian, however the turn gave some outs back to O'Dwyer with the two remaining aces in the deck. It was the blank river that ended the hand and Soika doubled.