Sergio Casteluccio raised to 500 and got two callers, including Lucas Reeves in the big blind. The flop came . It checked to Casteluccio who bet 600. The small blind folded and Reeves check-raised to 2,000. Casteluccio called.
The turn was the and Reeves bet 4,800. Casteluccio called. The river was the and Reeves moved all in for 22,500. Casteluccio folded.
Igor Yaroshevskyy is also sat at the table, and has chipped up from starting stack.
On a flop Sosia Jiang checked to Josip Simunic who bet 800. Christopher Frank and Jiang also called. The turn and river were checked by both players and Simunic took down the pot with .
After a limp by Evangelos Bechrakis and a raise to 900 by Jimmy Guerrero on the button, Luis Fernandez came along from the big blind and Bechrakis also called. On a flop of , action checked to Guerrero and his bet of 1,000 was called by both opponents. The fell on the turn and again it was Guerrero who bet 3,800. This time, only Fernandez called and the duo then checked down the river.
Fernandez rolled over the and that won the pot, boosting the stack of Fernandez up even further as he now sits on more than two times of what he started with at noon.
Julian Thomas opened the action with a raise to 500 and Philippe Le Touche three-bet to 1,800 in the small blind. Jean-Noel Thorel in the big blind made it 4,200 to go and Thomas quickly folded. Le Touche had other plans and five-bet to 12,600. Thorel gave it some thought and folded, while his fellow countryman flashed the .
The same table also features Thomas Muehloecker as well, who is below the starting stack, while Le Touche appears to be the early chip leader on Day 1a.
Towards the end of the second level of the day, Arthur Conan and Nick Petrangelo busted.
Dominykas Karmazinas was also on the brink of elimination but got through with a jam against Tibor Nagygyorgy when betting 2,000 on the flop and picking up a call from the Hungarian. On the turn, Karmazinas moved all in for 15,400 and Nagygyorgy folded after three minutes of consideration.
Mete Ustuay raised to 300 and picked up one caller. Markku Koplimaa three-bet to 2,000 and Ustuay as well as the third player in the hand both called. The three-way flop of was checked through and the fell on the turn. Komplimaa checked and Ustuay's bet of 5,000 forced two folds.
New entries on Day 1a include Jean-Noel Thorel, Ryan Riess, Stefan Huber and Vladimir Troyanovskiy