It was a flip for Meddi Ferrah, who ended up all in for 42,500 with 
against the 
of EPT National Barcelona champion Jean-René Fontaine. Ferrah dodged a lot of outs on a 
board to remain in contention.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
122,000
12,000
|
12,000 |
|
90,000
90,000
|
90,000 |
Level: 14
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 3,000
Xia Lin jammed for just shy of the starting stack and Alexandre Reard called with a near identical stack out of the big blind.
Xia Lin:
Alexandre Reard: 
The 
flop gave Lin a commanding lead, and the turn guaranteed his double, which made the river a formality. Reard had exactly one 500 chip left and disappeared the very next hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
55,000 | |
|
Busted |
Mario Albanese opened to 6,500 first to act and Christian Van Dollen got his last 49,000 in from the button. Albanese reluctantly called and found himself trailing with 
versus 
. The board came 
and the kicker played to reduce Albanese's stack to 6,500. He doubled with ace-jack versus tens the next hand and still has a chip and a chair.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
105,000 | |
|
15,500 |
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Diego Furlanetto raised the button to 7,000 and Randy Lew jammed for 58,000 in the big blind. Furlanetto ended up in the think tank and the clock was called on him by Sergey Baburin. Tournament staff arrived and Furlanetto called within the allocated 30 seconds of additional time.
Randy Lew: 
Diego Furlanetto: 
Lew had been running well with treys on this table when he cracked a superior pocket pair. This time, however, the board came 
and the American was left drawing dead on the turn already.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
145,000
145,000
|
145,000 |
|
Busted |
The third PokerStars ambassador on Day 1a has also been eliminated as Fatima Moreira De Melo was spotted on her way out of the tournament area, following a mere few meters behind Erwann Pecheux.
Fouad Zouiten jammed out of the big blind for 49,000 and Chen An Lin, who had limped the small blind, folded with the words "I almost called, thought my queen-high was good." Zouiten flashed the 
and asked "why didn't you call? I need double of this."
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
300,000
300,000
|
300,000 |
|
245,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
160,000
160,000
|
160,000 |
|
160,000
60,000
|
60,000 |
|
130,000
91,000
|
91,000 |
|
110,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
|
54,000
31,000
|
31,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
||
|
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
Level: 13
Blinds: 1,000/2,500
Ante: 2,500
The next scheduled break has seen a field of 353 entries whittled down to just 108 hopefuls and they have been sent into a 20-minute break. During that time, the T-100 chips will be raced off with fewer than one third of the field in contention.
Surendra Naidoo had been a big stack not long ago and suddenly lost more than half of his stack. However, he then got it in with a set against the nut straight of Girgio Baralli on the 
turn with a shot at returning to a big stack once more.
Surendra Naidoo:
Giorgio Baralli:
Naido paired up on the 
river and Baralli was cursing in Italian. He had two big blinds left over and lost those the very next hand. Also out: Marcello Miniucchi, Pierre Merlin, Paul Guichard and Nicola D'Anselmo.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
260,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
110,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted |
