Luuk Gieles lead the event early on but dropped some chips at his former table. "Some four-bet and three-bet pots didn't work out" he explained.
Just now we saw him raise from the hijack and the player on the button called. The flop came and Gieles check-called a bet of 1,300. He check-called another 3,000 before the river . Both players checked and Gieles took it down showing .
Cor Janssen, in early position, raised to 1,200. Kees van Brugge called, the button called, and Foeke Deinum in the big blind called.
Both Deinum and initial raiser Janssen checked on . Van Brugge bet 900 and both the button and Deinum quickly released. The on the turn was checked by both and the completed the board.
Janssen bet 3,000 and Van Brugge folded after thinking about it for a bit. Janssen, with a big smile as usual, showed for not much of anything.
A player in middle position opened for 1,000 and big blind Raoul Refos was the sole caller.
Refos check-called a bet of 1,200 on and check-called another 3,100 on the turn. The on the river saw Refos check again. His opponent looked despairingly before checking behind.
Defending champion Jussi Nevanlinna, who won this event last year for €300,000 and finished 5th for €71,985 the year before, just sat down. After walking away the champion here last year, his next two cashes were wins as well, ending up top in the Eureka Main Event in Prague for €77,500 and lifting the trophy at the PCA winning the $5,300 Pot-Limit Omaha event for $36,660.
Besides Nevanlinna, Govert Metaal also sat down. He busted the €25,000 Super High Roller earlier today and now tries his luck in the Main Event.
Kees Alblas, known as Kees Bussum amongst his peers, sat down just now. Known as an action player, he got straight into it calling a 1,050 raise. Steven van Zadelhoff squeezed to 5,000 and the initial raiser shoved all in, stating "Time to gamble!"
Alblas got out of the way but Van Zadelhoff called with . The initial raiser showed and they were off to the races.
The board ran out and Van Zadelhoff parted ways with his 35,000-stack.
Van Zadelhoff is going to play online tonight, he'll be back on Tuesday for Day 1b to give it another try.
Morten Christensen was knocked down to just 1,000 in the third level of the day after suffering a boat under boat situation.
He worked his way up back to 15,000, but it wouldn't be enough. Just now he was down to 11,000 and rejammed with , right into . No miracle comeback story for Christensen, but he does still have the option to buy back in.
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