Oleksii Khoroshenin opened for 2,700 and then called a 11,200 shove from Artem Litvinov.
Litvinov with and the over cards for Khoroshenin.
A board of saw the baby pair hold up and give Litvinov the double up.
Not long after that Khoroshenin opened for 2,600 and faced a three-bet of 6,500 from Litvinov. He made the call and it went heads-up to a flop of . They both checked and a bet of 6,300 on the turn card from Khoroshenin saw Litvinov fold.
Vojtech Ruzicka opened from late position for2,700 and faced a three-bet from the wily Vladimir Troyanovskiy to 7,500. Ruzicka checked Troyanovskiy’s stack of around 90,000 and put out the call.
The flop was and Troyanovskiy led out for 9,500. Ruzicka made the call and they went to the turn card . Troyanovskiy then check-called a bet of 13,200 from Ruzicka and the completed the board.
Both players checked and Troyanovskiy turned over . Ruzicka could only smile, muck his cards and mutter, “Nice hand.”
In the first hand, Dominik Panka and Konstantin Puchkov got it in preflop with the Russian holding the superior . Panka had and was reduced to less than three big blinds after a board of .
One hand later, Jean-Noel Thorel raised from early position and Panka called all in, Marton Czuczor reraised from the small blind to 7,500. Thorel called and then bet the flop for 8,000 after it was checked to him.
Czuczor released his cards and Panka showed for a flopped set of eights. Thorel sheepishly turned over his and got there with a turn and the river to send the defending champion to the rail.
Sylvain Loosli raised to 2,500 and Artem Litvinov three-bet to 6,000 before the Frenchman moved all in for exactly 32,000. Litvinov eventually called off with the superior stack, but his was crushed by Loosli's .
The board ran out and Litvinov was left a few big blinds.
Rui Ferreira won another big pot after flopping a set and turning a full house with . Next to him, fellow Portuguese Tiago Martinho also has an above-average stack as well and we caught up on a few further chip counts. More to come after the break.