Jean-René Fontaine opened to 3,200 and was called by Alexandre Reard and Fred Weiss. Masato Yokosawa three-bet to 12,500, which Fontaine called. Reard moved all in for more than 90,000 and Weiss reluctantly folded, while Yokosawa snap-called. Fontaine glanced at the stack of Reard and folded.
Masato Yokosawa: 
Alexandre Reard: 
The board of 
gave Yokosawa aces and queens, and he doubled for 43,400.
Level: 11
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 1,600
Three-ways to the 
turn, Gaelle Baumann checked out of the big blind and Erwann Pecheux bet 22,000 for around the size of the pot. Thomas Lilmand moved all in from the button after some consideration and that forced out both opponents.
Maya Geller was also taking on a Frenchman in Giuseppe Zarbo, who defended out of the big blind and check-raised a 
flop from 4,000 to 11,500. Geller called and folded the 
turn when facing a bet of 15,000.
Sergio Castelluccio ended up all in and at risk before the flop with and Eusebiu Jalba took the flip for two third of his stack with 
. The board came 
and Jalba was left with 12,000, which he lost shortly after.
With a field of 353 entries, the goal for the day is to reach the final 15% and ensure a portion of the prize pool when all survivors combine for Day 2. For Day 1a, the magic number will be the final 53 players and 173 hopefuls have returned from dinner to retake their seats in the pursuit of that.
Level: 10
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 1,200
There are 173 players remaining out of 353 entries on Day 1a and they have been sent into a 75-minute dinner break. Action will resume at approximately 7.55 p.m. local time.
A few minutes before the dinner break, Fabio Sperling ended up all in and at risk for around 19,000. Ariel Celestino looked him up, which forced Andrea Virzi out of the pot.
Fabio Sperling: 
Ariel Celestino: 
The board came [Kh10hb6c8s10d] and Sperling failed to get there.
Karim Rebei recalled a hand in which he flopped top two pair with ace-eight only for Tamas Balogh to call his barrels with ace-trey and get there via runner-runner straight. Rebei lost plenty o0f his chips and also doubled Joey Weissman for a couple of big blinds after.
Further counts and bustouts can be found below.
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