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Manuel Bevand opened preflop to 2,500 before Vitalijs Zavorotnijs reraised to 6,700. Damien Krause then moved all-in for about 15,000, Bevand folded and Zavorotnijs instantly called with 
.
Krause shook his head and showed 
which couldn't improve on the 
board and he was knocked out.
They've paused the clock for the night and started the countdown from four hands. At the end of those, the remaining players will bag and tag and head to bed (or the bars) in preparation for Day 2.
Just as the tournament director declared last four hands, Perica Bukara and Dmitry Bezlepkin saw a 
flop. All the chips went in, and Bezlepkin must have felt awful when he discovered that his pocket aces had been outdrawn by Bukara's pocket eights.
Bukara won another smallish hand after that, and when it came to bag up the chips a hand or two later, his 210,600 was good enough to take the overall chip lead.
Just before the end of the night, Kristoffer Thorsson was crippled when he doubled up Jonathan Weekes. We didn't quite catch what Thorsson was holding before the dealer swept the whole lot up, but Weekes doubled to a chunky 145,000 while Thorsson was knocked back to around his 30,000 starting stack.
Then sun has set on a rainy Day 1b in Tallinn, and when the clouds parted, Perica Bukara was the player with the stack to beat. He came to Estonia straight from Prague, where he took sixth in the Unibet Open a few days ago. His hot streak continued early today, and he used his chips skillfully to amass 210,600 by the end of the night. Santiago Terrazas took the opposite approach, winning a massive pot with aces in the last 20 minutes to move into the second spot.
Pros Manuel Bevand, Vadim Markushevski, Marc Naalden, and Katja Thater will also be back for Day 2. Thater is the only female to return tomorrow to join around 200 men. Among those not as lucky were ElkY Grospellier, Dario Minieri, Shaun Deeb, Sorel Mizzi, and the only other female to play today, Fatima Moreira de Melo.
Day 1b saw 239 entrants whittled to slightly over 100. They will join the 89 players who survived Day 1a on Friday at noon local time to work their ways ever closer to the money, and eventually, a shot at the €400,000 first prize. Join us back here at PokerNews for all of the Estonian excitement.
For your viewing pleasure.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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210,600 | |
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176,300 | |
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147,800 | |
|
147,600 | |
|
145,400 | |
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|
141,000 | |
|
136,900 | |
|
130,200
28,200
|
28,200 |
|
125,700 | |
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|
123,300 | |
|
|
118,000 | |
|
|
116,100 | |
|
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115,000 | |
|
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|
114,600
29,600
|
29,600 |
|
109,000 | |
|
105,900
20,900
|
20,900 |
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104,800 | |
|
102,900 | |
|
|
101,800 | |
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98,800 | |
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95,500 | |
|
94,800 | |
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88,600 | |
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|
84,500 | |
|
|
84,000 | |
Main Event
Day 1b Completed
