Hearing a cry of seat open barely halfway through the second level of the day is bound to make the ears of any live reporter prick up. Heading over to the table, the recipient of the busted player's chips Nicolas Sievers filled us in.
According to him, his opponent overbet the flop of and Sievers called. The turn was the and his opponent bet again. Sievers raised and was then shoved on.
Sievers called quickly showing and all that was left was for his opponent to turn over , the river to come . and for the player to make a quick exit to perhaps ponder a re-entry.
After 19 players booked their places in the final day of the Opening Event at the 888Live Rozvadov Festival, today is the second chance for players to advance.
The attractively priced €195+30 event comes with a €150,000 guarantee, one of three events at the festival with a six-figure guarantee, along with the High Roller and the Main Event.
For now however, the focus is on who will make the most of 30,000 starting chips and 30-minute levels. 15 levels were played yesterday, so it is safe to assume that it will be another finish at around 2.30 a.m. local time.
If you weren't following yesterday's coverage, the magic number is 407,500. That is the number of chips that Day 1A chipleader Bartoz Szafraniec bagged up late last night, and is the number that all players for the remaining Day 1s will be aiming for.
Stay tuned to PokerNews for live coverage of today's event, which gets underway in just under an hour's time at 6 p.m. local time.
and Sievers called. The turn was the 
and his opponent bet again. Sievers raised and was then shoved on.
and all that was left was for his opponent to turn over 
, the river to come 
. and for the player to make a quick exit to perhaps ponder a re-entry.
