Tamon Nakamura was down to a few chips only which he got in before the flop with the 
. He was looked up by fellow countryman Tsugunari Toma in the small blind with the 
.
It was Toma who got there on the 
flop but the 
turn and 
river kept Nakamura in contention. "Now I have a very big stack," he joked.
Alexey Losev raised from middle position and Luca Giovannone called from cutoff before Didier Pitcho shoved his last 5,400 from the button. Both players called and the flop was 
.
Losev bet 2,600 on the flop and Giovannone raised to 8,000. Losev got away from it after a few moments in the tank and the cards were turned up.
Didier Pitcho:
Luca Giovannone:
Both players had ace-jack but Pitcho had flush opportunities that were dashed on the 
turn. The 
on the river was inconsequential and both players split up Losev's chips while Giovannone took the small side pot.
With just 3,500 in the middle to the 
flop, the chips of Alexandre Saxod and Juan Antonio Garcia Reverte went into the middle of the table with the former at risk for 16,400.
Alexandre Saxod: 
Juan Antonio Garcia Reverte: 
"I can make a straight flush but you cannot," Garcia Reverte joked. He had no reason to laugh anymore on the 
turn as Saxod improved to the nut flush and that left the Spaniard with one out.
The river was the 
and Saxod doubled.
The cards were already on their backs as Yannick Schumacher was the player at risk with the 
. He was up against Josef Huber with the 
, and the latter had turned two pair on 
. The river was a blank 
and Huber just shrugged while Schumacher left the table without saying a single word or showing any emotion.
Following a flop of 
, Javier Fernandez Alonso checked from the small blind and then called a bet worth 900 by Melika Razavi in the under-the-gun position. The 
turn was checked by the Spaniard once more and Razavi fired another bet of 2,600 for Fernandez Alonso to call.
The river was checked and Fernandez Alonso tabled the 
, to which Razavi mucked.
"Oh wow, I am so lucky my flush didn't hit," Razavi said, indicating she would have stacked her opponent.
With around 10,000 in the pot and 
on the board, Harry Lodge bet 4,000 from the big blind and Shakhabiddin Muradov called from the button. The turn was 
. Lodge continued for 7,500 and Muradov got away from it to give up the pot.
On the next hand, Muradov raised to 700 from the cutoff and George Damian called frmo the button. Lodge raised to 3,200 from the small blind and the big blind got out of the way before both remaining players called. The flop was and Lodge continued for 4,000. Both players wasted no time folding their hands and Lodge picked up another pot to move above 60,000 in early Day 1a action.
On a late reg table filled with EPT regulars, a preflop raising war got the chips of Rodrigo Seiji into the middle and Julien Martini was more than happy to snap call as he had the best of it.
Rodrigo Seiji: 
Julien Martini:
The board ran out 
to leave Seiji drawing dead on the turn and that spelled the end for the Brazilian, who can re-enter one more time on either Day 1a, 1b or prior to the start of Day 2.
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/300
Ante: 300
According to the tournament screens, there are 222 players out of 233 entries remaining and they have been sent on a scheduled 20-minute break.
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