2018 888poker LIVE Festival Bucharest
Level: 4
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
According to the screens there are 205 players out of 221 entries remaining and they have been sent into their second 15-minute break of the day. Razvan Nicolae Sabau busted for a second time on Day 1b while Shub Dean appears to be the current chip leader. Andrei Racolta had also been up to six figures but since lost some.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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120,000
120,000
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120,000 |
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65,000
20,000
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20,000 |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted |
On the river of a jack-high board, Lucian Claudiu Bera bet 5,500 out of the small blind and his sole opponent called. Bera rolled over ![]()
for the over pair and his opponent nodded, mentioning in table chat he had queen-jack for top pair.
Next to Beru sits Ana Marquez and the same table also features Pasquale Grimaldi. Further assorted counts can be found below.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
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60,000
60,000
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60,000 |
|
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38,000
3,000
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3,000 |
|
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34,000
34,000
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34,000 |
|
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32,000
32,000
|
32,000 |
|
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28,000
2,000
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2,000 |
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24,000
24,000
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24,000 |
|
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19,000
4,000
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4,000 |
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On a three-way flop of ![]()
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, Mihai Manole had checked out of the small blind and faced a bet of 1,350 and a call by Ahmed Fadhel in the cutoff. Manole check-raised to 4,100 and the initial bettor folded, Fadhel called. The
appeared on the turn and a bet of 3,100 won the pot for Manole without further resistance.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
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42,000
42,000
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42,000 |
While the first two levels barely saw any player bust, the speed of eliminations has eventually increased and Nasser Khelifi, as well as Razvan Belea, were among those to bust. According to the screens there 13 casualties thus far with 204 players remaining out of 217 entries.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted |
Tournament staff had barely announced a promotion by 888poker that new headphones would be awarded to the first player to hit a full house with three eights involved on the board or in the hand, when the floor was called over to table three in the corner of the Grand Ballroom.
Radu Angel and Aurel Iovan both had hit a full house with ![]()
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respectively on a board of ![]()
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and the pair posed for a picture before Iovan took over the duties to unpack and put the new Sony headphones to use.
On the ![]()
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turn, Andrei Iovan bet 3,200 and was called by Bogdan Nastase in the big blind and Hans Fest from under the gun. The
river paired the board and Nastase checked, Fest bet 9,000 and Iovan folded. Nastase had other plans and check-raised all in, which ended up as the winning move as Fest folded as well.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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48,000 | |
|
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48,000
48,000
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48,000 |
|
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28,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
|
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Eight players out of the 198-entry strong field have been eliminated thus far and the latest casualty included Adrian Corneliu Lazar. The Pokerfest Romania organizers are not worried at all about reaching the €288,000 guarantee for this event and it may already be surpassed once the registration for Day 1b closes at the start of level eight with the Turbo Heat 1c to come at 11 p.m. local time still.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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Busted |
Level: 3
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 25