Marvin Rettenmaier made a full house and managed to get a river raise called by Federico Cipollini to increase his stack to 36,000.
Cipollini raised from under the gun and called after his German opponent three-bet from two seats along. Both players checked the flop before Rettenmaier bet 1,125 on the turn. Cipollini called and then led out for 3,000 on the river. Rettenmaier took his time and raised to 6825. Cipollini took an equal amount of time to call with , a full house weaker than Rettenmaier's .
Neil Strike and Preben Stokkan were two players from the bottom room who busted during the second level of the day.
Jakub Michalak raised to 400 and was called by the player on the button as well as Dan Smith in the big blind. On a flop of , Michalak continued for 700 and was called by both opponents. The turn saw Smith folding to a second barrel worth 2,000 by Michalak and the player on the button called.
The dealer burned and turned the river and Michalak's bet of 2,800 was paid off after a lot of consideration, though the player on the button mucked after he was shown the .
We arrived as Isaac Haxton had 150 in front of him in middle position and Sergio Castelluccio had 300 in front of him in the cutoff. The big blind asked what exactly was going on. The dealer confirmed that Haxton had limped and Castelluccio had made it 300.
The big blind made the call and action was back on Haxton. The Team Online Pro made it 1,400 and Castelluccio folded instantly. The big blind made the call again.
Action checked to Haxton on . Haxton bet 1,000 and that was enough to take it down, the big blind check folded.
Joining the action on the turn, Ihar Soika bet for 1,600 from the under-the-gun position and the player in the big blind check-raised to 3,500. Soika called to see the river and paid a 4,500 bet of his opponent to chop the pot with versus .
While Soika is above starting stack, Joni Jouhkimainen on the same table is down to less than half the initial amount of chips.
In a hand that lasted about eight minutes into the first break, Vanessa Selbst and Daniel Erlandsson clashed on the turn of a . Selbst bet 2,700 from under the gun and Erlandsson raised to 7,000 from the button before the action went back to Selbst.
The PokerStars Team Pro now clicked it up to 14,600 and Erlandsson eventually surrendered.
As Team PokerStars Pro George Danzer took his seat at Vanessa Selbst's table we saw a little pot being won by the latter.
In a four-way single raised pot the flop showed and all involved players checked. The turn was the and the big blind bet 425. The initial raiser folded and the third player called. Selbst was seated on the button and she thought for quite some time before raising it up to 1,500.
The two other players folded and Selbst took down this pot.