With several pros flying in late and firing multiple bullets on the day already, the field size for Day 1c has climbed all the way to 402 already and around 290 players remain in contention.
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Teresa Purti has been sharing a table with 888poker ambassador Daria Feshchenko for a while and her stack dipped below the starting stack as of lately while Feshchenko chipped up. Another loss contributed to the recent trend when Purti defended out of the blinds and check-called a bet of 11,300 on the river. Her opponent showed for queens and fives, which won the pot.
Not long ago, Tamer Kamel was sitting on a very comfortable 250,000 but he just walked out of the tournament area. The seat on his former table was already empty and he was moved but not before losing a bigger pot. According to Kamel, he flopped a set of deuces against pocket kings and ended up second-best.
On his new table the run-bad continued and he ultimately raised with queens, picked up two callers. On a flop, he received a check-raise and jammed with his overpair to get called by . The turn sent the Brit behind and no miracle queen came on the river.
On the table of Gary Miller, a shorter stack got his chips in and Xiao Jiang looked him up after his flopped draw got there on the turn of a board . The of the player at risk were worthless as Jiang turned the straight with to drag in the pot and jump to nearly two times the average.