Ivan Luca busted in today's single day High Roller, Igor Kurganov also just registered as did Tom Hall. The latter finished second to Dominik Nitsche in the UKIPT High Roller in the early morning hours and needed some more sleep.
With the board already complete, reading , Niall Farrell found the perfect scare card to bet 4,200 with not that much behind. The first opponent folded and Miltiadis Kyriakides tried to get some info via table chat before also releasing his cards. Farrell cheekily flipped over the and grinned "I had to."
Pedro Martinho Cabeca three-bet shoved for his last 6,100 chips out of the big blind and initial raiser Mariano Martiradonna called with the . If Cabeca was excited that his improved on the flop , he didn't show it. And by the time the came on the turn, the excitement was long gone anyways. A blank river busted the Portuguese and he walked out of the tournament area. No word, no drama, nothing. Only silence.
More than 50 players have been eliminated within the first four levels.
The fourth level of the day has been completed and half time for the second flight is reached. In other words, everyone is heading into the second 20-minute break.
The full betting action is unknown but a tweet from Chance Kornuth about his elimination alerted us and there was just one big stack on his former table, which belonged to Kristof Coenen from Belgium. According to other players on the table, it escalated on the turn.
Kornuth bet 1,800, Coenen made it 4,000 and Kornuth then squeezed to 9,200 before calling the shove of the Belgian with pocket jacks for top set. Coenen had the for the straight and the river blanked.
Felipe Boianovsky had table neighbor Jan-Eric Schwippert at risk for 10,775 chips with , but his pocket pair was slightly inferior to the of the German. The board ran out and Schwippert found some relief.
On a board of Casey Kastle was check-raised from 2,000 to 4,000 by Marcin Chmielewski and Kastle made the call.
The turn was the and Chmielewski bet again, this time 6,500. Kastle called quickly and the two players saw the on the river. Chmielewski checked and Kastle thought about betting but instead checked it back. Chmielewski showed but Kastle had turned a flush with .