In a multi-way pot, Aram Sargsyan had been all in on an earlier street and on the 
, only Sorin Sufragiu was left over after his bet went through uncalled.
"All cards please," the dealer demanded and Sargsyan tabled 
for a missed straight and king-high. Even if had improved, it would have been for nought, as Sufragiu had the nuts in 
to score the knockout.
Down to the last 7,700 and facing a raise to 700, Claudio Di Giacomo moved all in from middle position and he was called by Jerome Zerbib in the small blind, the initial raiser folded.
Claudio Di Giacomo: 
Jerome Zerbib: 
The board came 
and the mighty ducks held up to let Di Giacomo climb back to half the starting stack.
Among others, Yan Li, Yake Wu, Emil Bise, Vasyl Zabrodskyy, Adrian Smith and Victor Ilyukhin have all been eliminated in the first three levels of the day.
Philippe Le Touche played on day 1a without success, but his second attempt is off to a skyrocket start as the Frenchman has moved up to nearly six times the starting stack. Le Touche is not in his seat right now a few minutes in the new level, but then again he won't be running out of chips anytime soon.
Level: 4
Blinds: 100/300
Ante: 300
The screens show a total of 535 entries of which 500 players remain and they slowly head out of the Salle des Etoiles for the first 20-minute break of the day.
With a pot of 23,000 showing to the 
, Maria Konnikova bet 10,000 and her sole remaining opponent Christian Rotundo made the call. Konnikova turned over 
for a set of queens and Rotundo had that beat with 
for the king-high straight.
Eight tables are running in the secondary tournament are and two PokerStars Ambassadors can be found there in Maria Konnikova and Kalidou Sow. One seat over from Konnikova is former Dutch professional football player Royston Drenthe, who played for Real Madrid and other teams in Europe.
Below are other notables that can be found in the secondary area.
A hefty pot of more than 30,000 played out over in the corner section of the Salle des Etoiles and the decent start of Moreno Renzo Plozza was canceled out entirely, as he dropped below the starting stack. He clashed with Fulvio Barbisan and his flopped top pair with 
was no good against 
for an overpair on the 
board.
Plozza was not happy at all about how the hand played out and said so in table chat. Barbisan jumped above the starting stack and the chip leader on that table is Sergio Castelluccio.
PokerStars ambassador Fatima Moreira De Melo is back in the mix for Day 1b and faces Romain Lewis, as well as Jacques Guenni, among others. Erwann Pecheux and Viliyan Petleshkov are also among the notables that joined recently, and a few tables are now running in the secondary cash game area.
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