Demosthenes Kiriopoulos knocked out a shorter stack with 
versus 
when the board ran out 
.
Shortly after, he opened and then four-bet jammed into Imad Saab, who called it off in a flip.
Imad Saab: 
Demosthenes Kiriopoulos: 
Saab took the lead on the 
flop but the 
turn restored the preflop order. Nothing changed on the 
river and Kiriopoulos made it two knockouts in a row.
Tony Aziz and Nariman Yaghmai headed to the 
turn on which the former bet. Yaghmai raised to 40,000 only for Aziz to click it back to 100,000. An instant fold by Yaghmai followed and Aziz earned the pot without further resistance.
Level: 11
Blinds: 1,500/3,500
Ante: 3,500
The field size has climbed to 654 entries and 282 players currently remain. They are on a scheduled 20-minute break as the chip race of the T-100 chips is taking place.
Umit Yukselir was one of many Day 2 entries and got his stack in preflop with the 
. Abbas Koyun had that dominated with the 
and the kicker played a pivotal role. On a board of 
, the ace-king high prevailed and Koyun added to his stack.
On his table, he now only trails Bora Kurtulus who possesses an even bigger stack.
While the hand played out and Alexandru Grigorie check-called the 
turn for 17,000, Neshan Khourshoudian and Matas Cimbolas were engaged in table chat. Cimbolas left up for guessing where he was from and then concluded that he might be a donkey.
Khourshoudian insisted that donkeys are smart animals that learn quickly, for Cimbolas to figure out who the biggest donkey in the room might be. The hand also had an end, as Grigorie checked through the river and the Romanian won the pot with the 
for the second pair.
A squeeze to 32,000 was in front of Sonia-Veronika Shashikhina and she then called all-in for around 150,000 in total when Istvan Birizdo moved all-in.
Sonia-Veronika Shashikhina:
Istvan Birizdo: 
The 
flop and turn were blanks. However, the dreadful fell on the river to send Shashikhina to the rail.
The cutoff opened to 6,500 and Stoyan Madanzhiev three-bet to 23,000 in the small blind. Mehmet Samsa then four-bet to 75,000 in the big blind and two quick folds followed.
"Bravo," Selahaddin Bedir stated while fellow countryman Samsa raked in the pot. Madanzhiev has dropped to fewer than the starting stack and will need to chip up soon.
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