Overflow for the massive Day 1b field has resulted in a few tables opening in a side room usually reserved for high rollers, satellites and some final tables. Here's a handful of counts from some notables seated in the side room.
A player opened to 1,000 from middle position and another raised to 2,900. Kfir Ivgi called in the small blind and the initial raiser folded.
The flop came 
and the pre-flop raiser made a not-so-subtle hand gesture indicating that he regretted folded. Ivgi check-called 2,700 and the pair checked down the 
turn and river.
"Flush," said Ivgi, showing 
. His opponent mucked and the initial raiser beamed saying he had folded 
"How you fold!" said Ivgi, fist-bumping his opponent. "Unbelievable!"
Joris Ruijs raised to 800 from the hijack and Yevhen Dzhura looked down at his cards in the cutoff before deciding to three-bet to 2,000. Action folded back to Ruijs who made the call.
The flop was the 
. Ruijs checked, Dzhura continued with a bet of 3,300. Ruijs took a few seconds before raising to 21,500, leaving himself behind with 300. Dzhura then contemplated for a bit before reluctantly folding.
The flop read 
with 2,200 in the middle already. The player in the big blind checked and Georgios Kitsios bet 800 from the lojack. Kfir Ivgi called immediately in the hijack and the player in the big blind folded.
They both checked through the 
on the turn to see the 
on the river complete the board.
"You can't check again..." Ivgi said to Kitsios.
Kitsios laughed and exclaimed: "I'm not, I am going to bet!"
Kitsios then flicked in 3,200 for the bet and Ivgi looked at his cards once more before pushing them towards the dealer for the fold.
Level: 5
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 400
Level: 4
Blinds: 100/300
Ante: 300
Players are going on their first 20-minute break of the day. There are currently 1,029 of 1,045 players remaining on Day 1b.
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