The diminuitive Russian Roman Makhlin qualified for this event through a PokerStars Satellite and it is turning into a pretty impressive investment.
He has just found himself all-in against Stephane Albertini pre flop. Albertini had a stack in the region of 145,000 when all the chips went into the middle and Makhlin had him well covered.
Albertini:
Makhlin:
Makhlin needed an Ace to overtake Albertini and the Dealer provided him with two of them on a flop of . The turn and river was not enough to save Albertini and he was eliminated from the tournament.
Makhlin on the other hand becomes our new chip leader
Nicolas Chouity made the opening raise in early position - we're not sure how much it was, but when we arrived Oscar Blanco Carrasco was reraising to 24,000 from the big blind. Chouity promptly moved all in for an additional 84,500, and following a short period of grinning and squirming, Carrasco folded.
The reigning EPT Grand Final champion is still in the game with around 140,000.
Allan Sice has just shown he does not fear the might of Bryn Kenney's massive stack as he just attacked him head on.
The flop read and there was already 70,000 chips in the pot. Kenney checked in early position, Sice thought long and hard, before putting 56,000 worth of chips into the middle of the felt. Kenney removed the yellow chips being used to protect his hand and flicked them into the muck.
One of our overnight big stacks, Roman Makhlin, has had a particularly good start to the day. He's just knocked out Saevar Ingi Saevarsson, the chips going in on the turn of an board.
Makhlin: for trips
Saevarsson: for a flush draw
River:
Makhlin is now up to 850,000 - with erstwhile chip leader Bryn Kenney having dipped to 750,000, that makes Makhlin the current chip leader as far as we can see.
Sometimes people can forget that this is a game where you have to make a five card hand and we do have a flop, turn and river. Take PokerStars Online Qualifier George Tsolakos for example. He got his stack of 54,500 in the middle with and was in pretty bad shape against Shander De Vries's .
Tsolakis had packed his things and had walked away from the table until the cries lured him back where he saw a flop to crush de Vrie's hopes. The turn and river were no good to Vrie's and Tsolakos doubled up.
With Maria Masceiras' untimely demise, the award for th elast woman standing goes to, Leo Margets, who incidentally is best known for being the last woman standing at the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event.
Estonian EPT stalwart Imre Leibold moved all in from the cutoff to a raise from Leandro Balotin. Balotin would ultimately fold, but not before Marco Bognanni had called from the small blind.
The sound that escaped Nicolo Calia's mouth was small and full of sadness - he was all in with pocket , but his opponent Juan Enrique Company Iborra turned over . The board ran out a ten-free and the EPT Tallinn finalist was gone.
Maria Marceiras' run in in the tournament is over as she has just this second been eliminated by Shander De Vries.
The action folded around to Marceiras in late position, who looked down at {qxtx] and decided to move all in. However, she did not count on De Vries waking up in the big blind with
The flop of increase De Vries' lead over his Spanish opponent and when the turn and river came the and respectively, it was game over for Marceiras.
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. The turn 
and river 
was not enough to save Albertini and he was eliminated from the tournament.
and Valikoski was eliminated.
and there was already 70,000 chips in the pot. Kenney checked in early position, Sice thought long and hard, before putting 56,000 worth of chips into the middle of the felt. Kenney removed the yellow chips being used to protect his hand and flicked them into the muck.
board.
for trips
for a flush draw
flop to crush de Vrie's hopes. The turn 
and river 
, but his opponent Juan Enrique Company Iborra turned over 
and the EPT Tallinn finalist was gone.