Level: 4
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
Level: 4
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
The tournament staff can barely open enough new tables in time to accommodate the growing field. Among those to enter very recently were also Shaun Deeb, Sergey Lebedev, 2016 November Niner Vojtech Ruzicka and Mustapha Kanit.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Mustapha Kanit | 100,000 | |
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James McCrink | 100,000 | |
Nariman Yaghmai | 100,000 | |
Vojtech Ruzicka | 100,000 | |
Shaun Deeb | 100,000 | |
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Sergey Lebedev | 100,000 | |
Mikhail Rudoy | 100,000 | |
Mikita Badziakouski | 100,000 |
Among the early big pots was a double up for Fedor Holz, but the chips are flying on almost every table to create plenty of frantic action.
Holz raised from the cutoff and then called a three-bet to 15,500 by Vladimir Troyanovskiy out of the small blind to see a flop of . Troyanovskiy bet 15,000 and Holz called before doing so again on the turn for 30,000.
On the river, Troyanovskiy checked and Holz shoved for 28,200. Troyanovskiy called, Holz showed and the Russian just nodded and mucked his .
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Fedor Holz |
190,000
90,000
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90,000 |
Vladimir Troyanovskiy |
15,000
15,000
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15,000 |
The tournament is well on track to beat the numbers of last year, as already more than 100 players have taken their seats and the registration remains open until the end of level eight and it's following break. Some new faces in the field can be found below.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Igor Kurganov | 110,000 | |
Sylvain Loosli | 100,000 | |
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Ali Reza Fatehi | 100,000 | |
Rajkumar Ramakrishnan | 100,000 | |
Jonathan Karamalikis | 100,000 | |
Connor Drinan | 100,000 |
The tournament clock mentions a cap of 160 players, but according to the floor they will try to accommodate all players. The 160 cap on the screen comes from synchronisation with the back-end system that mentions a 160 cap for the app. There are 106 entries so far.
Under the gun Sergio Aido raised to 4,800 and he got called in three spots; Paul Newey in the cutoff, Anton Astapau on the button and Davidi Kitai in the big blind.
The flop came and Kitai checked. Aido fired 8,000 and just Newey made the call.
Newey called Aido's 18,000 bet on the turn as well and the two saw the completing the board. Aido now checked, and folded to Newey's 40,300 shove.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Paul Newey |
112,300
14,300
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14,300 |
Sergio Aido |
80,000
-20,000
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-20,000 |
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Igor Yaroshevskyy raised to 4,500 and picked up two callers behind him in the blinds with Adrian Mateos and Rajkumar Ramakrishnan in the big blind. The flop came and the trio checked. On the turn, Mateos bet 8,000 and that forced two folds.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Igor Yaroshevskyy |
105,000
105,000
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105,000 |
Adrian Mateos |
95,000
95,000
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95,000 |
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Rajkumar Ramakrishnan |
95,000
-5,000
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-5,000 |
With more than 35,000 in the middle and the flop reading , David Peters checked in late position and Ali Reza Fatehi from one seat over bet 15,000 in the hijack. Peters called and the appeared on the turn.
Peters moved all in, Fatehi asked for a count, and then folded when it was deemed to be 52,400.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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David Peters |
120,000
20,000
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20,000 |
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Ali Reza Fatehi |
74,000
-26,000
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-26,000 |
David Dayan from under the gun and Georgios Zisimopoulos got into a raising war and the former got his stack in and the latter looked him up from the big blind.
Dayan:
Zisimopoulos:
The board ran out and Dayan was sent to the rail. Until the end of level eight, he can however reenter the competition on his second bullet still.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Georgios Zisimopoulos |
160,000
60,000
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60,000 |
David Dayan | Busted |
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Jean-Noel Thorel |
255,000
155,000
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155,000 |
Romain Lewis |
240,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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Andjelko Andrejevic |
230,000
130,000
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130,000 |
Sam Greenwood |
165,000
65,000
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65,000 |
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Stanley Choi | 100,000 | |
Mark Teltscher | 100,000 | |
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Vladimir Troyanovskiy |
35,000
20,000
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20,000 |