While Chris Moneymaker remains among the biggest stacks in the room towards the final break of the night, some other big names fell such as Maxim Panyak, Arsenii Karmatckii, Dmitry Gromov and Andrey Pateychuk.
Roman Parfenov defended his big blind against a raise by Leonid Timonin from under the gun and check-called a bet of 3,500 on the 
turn. He also checked the 
river and Timonin carefully cut out a bet worth 3,000.
Parfenov raised to 10,000 and Timonin needed plenty of time before making the call. Parfenov then tabled the 
and Timonin mucked 
face up.
In a battle button versus small blind, Oleg Volkov and Bulat Khusainov were in action on the 
flop and the latter bet 4,000, which Volkov called. The 
turn prompted a bet of 6,000 by Khusainov and another call of Volkov followed.
Both then checked the 
river and Khusainov revealed his 
, which Volkov had beat with the 
for jacks and eights.
Andrey Ivlev check-called a bet of 1,200 by Vitaliy Avanesyan on the 
and they checked the turn. Ivlev had barely bet the river when Avanesyan had already folded.
Shortly after, Mikhail Simonenko was awaiting his fate and Ivlev jammed the 
turn to isolate successfully. Simonenko tabled 
and Ivlev had the 
for the other flush draw. As the rolled off on the river, Simonenko improved to a flush and avoided a trip to the registration desk.
Gerald Karlic was on his way out of the tournament area when he failed to beat the of Sergey Verkhoturov for top pair on an ace-high board. However, that certainly won't be the last time the Austrian will try to run up a stack for Day 2.
Kiryl Radzivonau raised to 2,000 first to act and picked up four callers to see the flop, on which just Lidiya Kozenkova check-called a bet worth 3,500. Kozenkova check-called another 6,800 on the 
turn and check-folded the river when facing the shove of Radzivonau.
Level: 8
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 800
With the flop showing 
, Eran Shaham bet what appeared to be 4,000 and was called by Rihards Dobelis. Both then opted to check down the turn and the 55h] river.
Shaham turned over 
and Dobelis mucked the 
face up.
All remaining players from Day 1a are in the Ballroom while the satellite takes place in the Karaoke room.
The Day 1a field size has reached 451 entries thanks to plenty of re-entries after the dinner break and Andrey Pateychuk just entered for the first time.
Below are assorted casualties that may very well be back in contention soon again.
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