Level: 13
Blinds: 1,000/2,500
Ante: 2,500
Level: 13
Blinds: 1,000/2,500
Ante: 2,500
Virgil Grecu's return after the break was cut short by Vitalii Pankov. It was the latter who opened to 6,000 on the button and called off a 29,500 shove from Grecu from the small blind.
Virgil Grecu: ![]()
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Vitalii Pankov: ![]()
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Pankov caught the queen he needed on the turn to send Grecu to the rail in the latter part of the day: ![]()
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| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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90,000 | |
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Busted |
With the pot already up to 80,000, Jonatan Elmer was facing a bet of 50,000 from an unknown opponent on a ![]()
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board. After thinking it over for 30 seconds, he flicked in a calling chip with ![]()
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Reluctantly, his opponent rolled over ![]()
for the airball and had to part with the vast majority of his stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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250,000 |
In a blind battle, Brazil's rising star Renato Kaneoya found his demise at the hands of Simeon Naydenov. On an ![]()
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flop, Kaneoya's stack of 80,000 went in after a series of raises and Naydenov had him barely covered with 85,000 in chips.
Renato Kaneoya: ![]()
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Kaneoya had straight- and flush draws but completed neither on the
turn nor
river.
At the same time, Paul Berende tweeted that he lost an all in with ![]()
against ![]()
on a ![]()
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flop. The river was the
and Berende will be back on Day 1c for a second chance.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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180,000
180,000
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180,000 |
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Busted | |
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Busted |
Level: 14
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 3,000
On a ![]()
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board, Tom-Aksel Bedell moved in for 27,000 and Joey Weissman called it off after a minute of thought.
Tom-Aksel Bedell: ![]()
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Weissman made a sharp call with a pair of queens but Bedell got there when the
landed on the river to double up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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80,000
75,000
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75,000 |
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42,000
42,000
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42,000 |
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| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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390,000 | |
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330,000
165,000
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165,000 |
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300,000
225,000
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225,000 |
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260,000 | |
|
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255,000 | |
|
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240,000 | |
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230,000 | |
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120,000
75,000
|
75,000 |
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50,000
10,000
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10,000 |
In a big blind against button confrontation, it was Pim Gieles who walked away over a 100k richer after dragging a substantial pot off Alessandro Marano.
With the board completed at ![]()
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, Gieles fired a hefty bet of 80,000 in an already 120,000 pot. Marano called it off, but had to muck when Gieles showed ![]()
for the flopped two pair.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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360,000 | |
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65,000 |
Level: 15
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 4,000
Joey Weissman opened the action with a raise from under the gun and saw one player from middle position call before the player in the big blind also came along. After the flop fell ![]()
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the big blind led with a 8,500 bet that only Weissman called.
The turn card was the
and Weissman again called a bet from the player in the big blind, this time for 16,000. The river was revealed to be the
and the action was checked to Weissman, He thought for a minute before he counted his chips and bet 35,000, which got his opponent to fold very quickly.
Weissman is back up to 150,000 despite having seen his stack take a hit in the last level.