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Registration is now closed, and the numbers therefore official. Day 1a of this year's Snowfest has drawn 180 players - that's a significant drop from last year, when Day 1a drew 270 players. We're not sure what's brought about this change, although we suspect that the draw of several other tournaments in Europe this week, as well as excellent skiing conditions here in Hinterglemm this week, have all contributed.
Martins Adeniya has been busy accumulating chips and by the looks of it he is the tournament's chip leader.
Martins opened the betting with a raise to 500 from the hijack seat only to see Pieter Druif make it 1,600 to play from the cutoff, a raise that the button called. Martins made the call and it was three-handed to the flop.
Flop: 
- All three players checked
Turn: 
- Martins bet into his opponents to the tune of 2,950, which was enough to get them to lay down their hands.
Lukasz Wasek is back over his starting stack after winning a pot in excess of 8,000 chips.
Casey Kastle open-raised to 600 from middle position and only Wasek, on the button, made the call. The dealer burned a card and dealt the 
flop, a flop that Kastle made a 1,000 continuation bet on. Wasek quickly called and when the made an appearance on the turn both players opted to check.
Kastle checked again when the showed up on the river but Wasek was not going to let him get to showdown cheaply and bet 2,400, sending Kastle deep into the tank. After almost two minutes he made the call but mucked his hand when Wasek turned over 
for a straight.
Wasek is now sat with a stack of chips totalling 34,000 whilst Kastle slips to 19,250.
Swiss online qualifier Guenegou Thibaud was shaking his head in disgust as we arrived. The board read 
and Thibaud was holding aces, but the other player was holding pocket tens for a set. After paying his opponent (in possession of a player ID card, but sadly not actually on our player list; we'll find out his name shortly), Thibaud was left with just 14,000.
Martins Adeniya is going very well at the moment though it's not down to one particular pot.
"I've just flopped the nuts a few times and got paid, not eliminated anyone though," said the Englishman as he raised preflop and took down a pot against the big blind on an 
with a bet of 625.
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
Players are on their first break of the day and are now swapping bad beat stories in the corridors of the Alpine Palace.
The usually vocal Josh Prager was unusually quiet and it resulted in the floor being called to his table. Everyone folded to Mr Prager in the small blind and he silently tossed a purple chip into the pot worth 500. Andrey Gulyy in the big blind questioned whether Prager intended to raise , to which he replied he did, but as he did not verbally confirm his action it was ruled all he could do was call.
Gulyy then raised to 600 but instantly mucked when Prager pumped up the action to 2,300. The pair then joked about the situation and Prgaer flashed the to Gulyy
Arnaud Mattern had been knocked down to 13,000 before he made a squeeze for a decent portion of his stack after a raise and a few callers, only to set all-in by the last of said callers.
Mattern quickly called with 
and was in a dominating position versus but a queen hit the turn and the Frenchman was eliminated just before the first break.
Szymon Pieszczoch is smarting, he just check-called a bet of 3,000 on the river of a 
board, his opponent looked a little worried turning over 
but Pieszczoch couldn't beat it and mucked.
