Level: 15
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 8,000
Level: 15
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 8,000
Our 40 remaining players are taking another short break to race off the 500-value chips.
Our chipleader is currently sat with 478,000 chips, and our previous chipleader David Schuster still in contention with 444,000.
We need to lose another 24 players before we wrap up the first Day 1 of today's action, with the second Day 1 starting at 7pm, and a hyper-turbo Day 1 with 10-minute blind levels scheduled for 1030pm!
Level: 14
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 6,000
Level: 13
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 5,000
We joined the action on table 30, with David Schuster raising a bet of 15,000 to 30,000 on the flop. His opponent chuckled after realising it was a min-raise, and quickly tossed the chips in to make the call.
The hit the turn, with Schuster betting 30,000 again when checked to. His opponent clearly didn't look comfortable but, adfter some consideration, elected to call and see a river.
The dealer put the on the river, and this time it was Schuster facing the 30,000-chip bet. He didn't think for very long at all, before extending his arm and releasing a handful of blue, 10,000-value chips. As his opponent squinted to see how much it would cost her to make the call, the dealer cut down the raise, counting out 90,000. After a minute or so, she made the call, with Schuster very confidently tabling for top two pair.
His opponent sighed and revealed the , mucking her other card, as 320,000 chips were pushed Schuster's way.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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David Schuster
|
468,000 |
Level: 12
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 4,000
After taking the chiplead into the first break, Mica Tobosarevic is out! There were a few shocked expressions as heads turned to see Tobosarevic putting his bag on as the dealer declared, "seat open!"
It turns out he distributed his chips relatively evenly amongst the players on table 29 and, as his 269,000-chip stack crumbled, it was Klaus Aichholzer who took over role as chipleader.
Aichholzer's latest victim was Germany's Bodo Sbrzesny, who put his last 30,000 in with and failed to hold against on an runout. It was almost no surprise to the table that the ace would land for Aichholzer, suggesting this wasn't the first time he'd found his way out of a sticky situation. Luck or otherwise, his 253,000 chips currently leads our 62 remaining players.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Klaus Aichholzer | 253,000 | |
Mica Tobosarevic
|
Busted | |
Bodo Sbrzesny | Busted |
Level: 11
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 3,000
Angelika Hofbauer is doing a great job of holding on! She moved her last 5,500 all-in with and so much as picked up her bag and left the table to go and tell her friend she was as good as out of the Grand Prix when she saw she was up against .
She paired up on the flop, with the turn offering her some gutshot outs as well. The river brought another to give her trips, with the dealer quickly glancing to see if there was a club in that cracked pair of aces before shipping her the 12,000-chip pot.
One orbit later, she found a great spot to move all-in, before the button ante came round to cripple her stack again. She was up against another pair, but was flipping this time, with versus . The dealer wasted no time affording her a pair on the flop. The bricked the turn, with the river coming close but not quite, as Hofbauer more than doubled up again, to almost 30,000.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Angelika Hofbauer
|
29,500 |
Level: 10
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 2,400