Marcel Luske raised to 1,600 in the cutoff and Isaac Baron called on the button. The flop was and both players checked. The turn brought the and Baron bet 3,500 and Luske checked. On the river we saw the , Luske bet 7,000 and this time Baron folded.
Will Molson just doubled up through Carmine Spada. Molson was all in preflop with the lesser to Spada's for 9,100. Molson was able to hit a jack on the turn to win the hand and double back to about 20,000 in chips.
A bit of Team PokerStars Pro on Pro action occurred that only left one survivor.
The cameras were around the table and by the time we got there we knew that the battle was between Dario Minieri and Leo Fernadez. The two had made it to the river of a and around 15,000 was in the middle.
Minieri set his Argentine opponent in for his remaining 19,000. Fernandez tanked and hero-called with but lost out to Minieri's full house with .
Fabrice Soulier and Casey Kastle have just butted heads and it is Kastle who has ended up sore. Soulier held and Kastle held , all of the money went into the middle pre flop and the board delivered Soulier an ace.
Day 1b of the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino European Poker Tour Grand Final is in the books after the second and last starting flight ran through their first eight levels of the tournament. Another 394 players were in action today to bring the grand total of this year's field size to 665. Ending the day with the most chips in the room was Nicolas Yunis with 191,700 in chips.
Plenty of notable players were in the mix on Day 1b including those representing Team PokerStars Pro. Ana Marquez, Fatima Moreira De Melo, Humberto Brenes, Pius Heinz, Marcel Luske and Jason Mercier all had successful days on the felt. On the flip side of the coin, Lex Veldhuis, Victoria Coren, Jonathan Duhamel and Eugene Katchalov were all eliminated on the day.
Other well known faces bagging up a good amount of chips were Tom Marchese, Stephen Chidwick, Erik Seidel, Annette Obrestad and Maria Ho.
With first place set at a whopping €1.5 million, it's going to be one heck of a ride from here on out. Day 2 will commence at 1200 CET tomorrow and PokerNews will be back in action firing away the updates as the players fire in their chips. Be sure to join us then.