While the first few levels barely provided any seat open, they keep on coming right now and the list of casualties has grown to 36 in total already. Among those to run out of chips recently were Stefan Bucur, Mashal Sharon and Gregory Telman.
While the first few levels barely provided any seat open, they keep on coming right now and the list of casualties has grown to 36 in total already. Among those to run out of chips recently were Stefan Bucur, Mashal Sharon and Gregory Telman.
At the very end of the previous level, Danut Chisu raised to 2,500 and Bogdan Berinde three-bet to 7,000, which Chisu called. On the ![]()
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flop, Chisu checked and Berinde simply moved all in. Chisu used one time bank and called it off for the last 10,000.
Danut Chisu: ![]()
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Bogdan Berinde: ![]()
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The
turn and
river were of no help for Chisu and he ran out of chips for the second time on Day 1a.
Level: 6
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
Dimitros Dimitrios scored a fortunate double when his ![]()
flopped an ace to beat the ![]()
of his table neighbor and was just furiously tapping the table in disgust after a big hand took place on his table. "I folded seven eight" the Greek said, still angry, while Florin Tatu had doubled for massive 43,500.
Tatu's ![]()
held up against the ![]()
of former chip leader Florian Costache as the board ran out ![]()
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to give both players a full house.
The same table also features Florin Pandilica, who doubled right after taking a seat on his second bullet.
Cosmin Calea was all in and at risk for his last 10,000 before the flop with ![]()
and his sole opponent called with the ![]()
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and Calea was eliminated, then immediately headed to the registration desk in order to re-enter.
Another early casualty on Day 1a is Florin Pandilica. He bet the river of a completed board of ![]()
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for 7,500 and table big stack Ran Shahar from one seat over moved all in. Pandilica eventually called it off for his last 20,000 and mucked his cards when Shahar flashed ![]()
for a full house. As per all in showdown role, the cards of Pandilica were revealed, he had the ![]()
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Also on the rail: Andrei Nodea. It seems likely that Pandilica and Nodea will give the first starting day another shot, though.
In a limped pot the player in the big blind somehow mucked his cards while Alexandru Papazian from under the gun bet the multi-way flop of ![]()
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for 600, only Boaz Kolenbrener called. On the
turn Papazian bet 4,100 and was called before emptying the clip on the
river by moving all in for his last 9,400.
Kolenbrener called and Papazian turned over the ![]()
, which Kolenbrener had beat with ![]()
for trips aces. Papazian will be re-entering shortly, though.
Pasquale Grimaldi raised to 1,500 and was called by Ioannis Vogiatzoglou in the big blind, who had re-entered earlier today. The Greek checked the flop of ![]()
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and Grimaldi checked behind. After another check on the
turn, Grimaldi made a delayed continuation bet of 1,500 and was called.
The
on the river resulted in a check by Vogiatzoglou and Grimaldi's bet of 5,100 forced a fold, Vogiatzoglou mucked ![]()
for a busted straight draw face up.
Valentin Alexandru Dobrescu raised to 1,200 and Danut Chisu called from one seat over. Vivian Saliba in the big blind squeezed to 4,500 and Dobrescu shoved for 21,400 to force a quick fold from Chisu. Saliba eventually called after some consideration with the words "let's gamble" and the cards were turned over.
Valentin Alexandru Dobrescu: ![]()
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Vivian Saliba: ![]()
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The board came ![]()
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and Dobrescu spike an ace to double.