Half Time on Day 1
Level 6
: 300/600, 100 ante
As the first five levels of the day are done and dusted, half time has been reached. Recent eliminations include Jason Wheeler and Brian Altman while Ivan Deyra, Oleksii Khoroshenin, Ramin Hajiyev and Dong Zhao signed up.
Zhao finished 29th in the Main Event and took a break before jumping in while former EPT Main Event champion Khoroshenin was third in the EPT13 Malta €25,750 Super High Roller and 4th in the EPT13 Barcelona High Roller this season already.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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50,000 | |
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50,000 | |
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50,000 | |
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50,000 | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
and 11,000 in the middle, Armando Collado Lanuza suddenly moved all in from the small blind. The stack was counted to be 26,075 and Lanuza, who had been entertaining the table with plenty of banter, then said "I do my moves, I don't need to think."
while a third player in the hand also folded.
from the small blind and Farrell with 
from the big blind.
, and that left Gruissem with just 6,000 chips, while Farrell was back up to 44,000.
flop, Buddiga check-called a bet of 1,350 and checked again the 
turn. Nanos bet 6,725 and Buddiga took a long time before check-raising to 16,500. Nanos tanked equally long before shoving for 43,000 and Buddiga snap-called.
on the river a formality. His facial expression upon showdown spoke for itself, it was a move gone horribly wrong.
flop saw a continuation bet worth 3,200 by Wheeler. Finger called and the 
came on the turn. Wheeler checked, Finger bet 7,300 and that won the pot without showdown.
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and the Norwegian made trips to double.
and the flush on the river saved Bedell.
