€5,200 PLO Opener Day 1a | 2025 PLO Grand Slam

01-24-2025 23:32 UTC+1

Assorted Counts and Eliminations

Frank Visser

Level 9 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Youness Barakat	2,600,000 860,000	860,000

Andrew Ige	1,600,000 1,030,000	1,030,000
Tina Bajric	1,500,000 116,000	116,000
Lautaro Guerra	1,100,000 925,000	925,000

Harry Casagrande	980,000 375,000	375,000
Manuel Fischer	775,000 24,000	24,000
Aaron Pahlawani	700,000 160,000	160,000

Ronald Keijzer	660,000 120,000	120,000

Fahredin Mustafov	570,000 200,000	200,000
Eran Carmi	200,000 500,000	500,000
Robert Cowen	110,000 90,000	90,000

Gergo Nagy	Busted
Diego Armando	Busted
Amir Mozaffarian	Busted

Dren Ukella	Busted
Stanislav Zegal	Busted

Blaz Zerjav	Busted

Daniel Tordjman	Busted

Level: 9

Blinds: 4,000/8,000

Ante: 8,000

01-24-2025 23:18 UTC+1

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Frank Visser

Level 10 : Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

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01-24-2025 23:15 UTC+1

Final Break of Day 1a

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Frank Visser

Level 8 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

The players have been sent on their final 15-minute break of the night. After the break, three more 45-minute levels are scheduled before the day will conclude.

01-24-2025 23:11 UTC+1

Hueber Heads Out

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Frank Visser

Level 8 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

Harry Casagrande and Thomas Hueber were facing off on a turn of Q♦4♣4♥J♦. Casagrande checked from the small blind to Hueber on the button, who bet 50,000 into the pot of 97,000.

Casagrande then put in a small raise to 110,000, after which Hueber moved in for 200,000 or so total.

Casagrande snap-called with the covering stack and the cards were revealed.

Thomas Hueber: A♥K♠10♣4♦ All in
Harry Casagrande: Q♠Q♣8♣5♦

Hueber needed the last four in the deck to survive, but the river brought the 2♥ instead, eliminating him from the tournament.

Player	Chips	Progress
Harry Casagrande	605,000 605,000	605,000
Thomas Hueber	Busted

Tags: Harry Casagrande Thomas Hueber

01-24-2025 23:03 UTC+1

"Yamamoto" Doubles Through "Bruno Schulz"

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Frank Visser

Level 8 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

On a completed board of A♦8♥7♦4♦Q♥, big blind "Yamamoto" pushed all in for 129,000 into a pot of 155,000. "Bruno Schulz" was sitting in the hijack and made the call after some thought.

"Yamamoto" showed down K♦Q♦9♣5♣ for the nut flush, besting the 9♥7♠7♥6♦ of "Bruno Schulz" and doubling them up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Yamamoto	413,000
Bruno Schulz	305,000 195,000	195,000

01-24-2025 22:53 UTC+1

Ribeiro Rivers House to Double Up

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Frank Visser

Level 8 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

Catching the action on a turn of 8♠3♦5♥4♣, Amir Mozaffarian checked from the hijack to Tomas Ribeiro in the cutoff. Ribeiro put a small bet of 25,000 into the pot of 130,000, which Mozaffarian quickly called.

The remainder of Ribeiro's chips, 99,000 of them, went in on the 8♣ river. Mozaffarian snap-called but quickly added his cards to the muck when Ribeiro tabled A♣9♦8♦3♣ for a eights full of threes.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tomas Ribeiro	378,000 188,000	188,000

Amir Mozaffarian	170,000 94,000	94,000

Tags: Amir Mozaffarian Tomas Ribeiro

01-24-2025 22:42 UTC+1

Mozaffarian Doubles Up

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Frank Visser

Level 8 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

The pot amounted to 78,000 when Amir Mozaffarian got his stack of 93,000 in from the big blind on a flop of 10♣J♣8♠ against "HansImperator" on the button.

Amir Mozaffarian: Q♦Q♣8♣2♦ All in
"HansImperator": Q♠J♦9♥6♥

"HansImperator" had flopped the nuts, but Mozaffarian's flush completed on the 4♥5♣ runout to win the pot and double up.

Player	Chips	Progress
HansImperator	1,050,000 150,000	150,000
Amir Mozaffarian	264,000

Tags: Amir Mozaffarian

Level: 8

Blinds: 3,000/6,000

Ante: 6,000

01-24-2025 22:31 UTC+1

Bajric Puts Cowen Back to Start

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Frank Visser

Level 7 : Blinds 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante

The action was caught on a turn of 7♠6♣J♠A♥. Three-way, the action checked to Robert Cowen on the button, who fired a pot-sized bet of 192,000.

Stanislau Melhui sat under the gun and folded his cards after some thinking time, after which Tina Bajric quickly called from the hijack.

The Q♥ appeared on the river, seeing Bajric lead out of 175,000. Cowen spent some minutes in the tank before electing to call. Bajric tabled A♣Q♣J♦3♥ for two pair, which caused Cowen to send his cards to the muck in defeat.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tina Bajric	1,384,000 134,000	134,000
Stanislau Melhui	770,000 80,000	80,000
Robert Cowen	200,000 550,000	550,000

Tags: Robert Cowen Stanislau Melhui Tina Bajric