Markus Bonus raised from under the gun. Adam Martinsson and Julien Sitbon, both in the blinds, quickly called.
All three of them checked a flop of 4♣10♥3♦ almost all at once. Martisson was as quicker to check the J♦ turn where Sitbon bet 1,000.
Bonus immediately raised to 3,000 and both Martinsson and Sitbon snap-folded.
Mark Prescott opened to 1,100 on the button and Matthew Russell defended in the big blind.
Russell checked on the flop of 6♥2♦5♥ and Prescott checked back. Russell then bet 1,300 on the 3♠ turn and Prescott called.
Russell sized up to 2,300 on the 2♣ river and Prescott quickly raised to 6,000. Russell nearly tabled his hand as he didn't realize his opponent had raised.
"I have to see it," Russell said before calling.
Prescott tabled A♥4♠ for a straight, but Russell has the same straight with 8♠4♣ as the two chopped the pot.
Rafik Chelihi raised in early position and Tom Talboom defended in the big blind.
Talboom checked on the flop of 4♥2♠8♥ and Chelihi continued for 1,500. Talboom check-raised to 5,200 and Chelihi called. Talboom then bet 4,500 on the 8♣ turn and Chelihi called.
Talboom checked on the 4♦ river and Chelihi bet 7,200. Talboom laid it down, which Chelihi said was the right move.
Christopher Brice defended from the big blind after Alexandre Reard opened from the hijack.
Brice checked the K♠8♦K♣ flop, Reard continued for 600 and Brice called.
Reard fired a second barrel of 800 on the 2♥ turn, but Brice check-raised to 2,200. It didn't take long for Reard to fold.
Omar Del Pino raised to 800 from the hijack, and Mohamed Aissani in the small blind called. Jose Ruiz Chacon in the big blind, however, raised to 3,500. He was called by both Del Pino and Aissani.
Ruiz Chacon continued for 3,000 on the K♥3♦2♣ flop. Del Pino folded, but Aissani check-called.
Both players checked the K♣ turn and the J♦ river, and Aissani flipped over A♥2♥ for two pair. Ruiz Chacon's cards went into the muck.
Level: 4
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 400
Simon Wiciak in the hijack opened to 600. He was called by Davidi Kitai to his left and by former football player Gerard Piqué in the big blind.
Both Piqué and Wiciak checked the 3♣J♦A♦ flop, but Kitai bet 900. Wiciak was the only one to call.
The 2023 EPT Barcelona champion then checked the 4♣ turn and folded to a bet of 2,700 from Kitai.
Three poker players who had career-defining runs earlier this summer in Las Vegas are back at it, now searching for an EPT Main Event title.
Leo Margets made history this summer as she became the first woman of poker's modern era to final table the WSOP Main Event, ultimately finishing in seventh place for $1.5 million. Margets is now building a stack in Day 1A, while the player who eliminated her, Kenny Hallaert, is doing the same after a deep run in the PokerStars Open Barcelona Main Event.
Meanwhile, fellow Main Event final tablist Adam Hendrix is also in the Day 1A field with double starting stack.
Three-way on a flop of 10♠8♥J♠, Gonzalo Gottlieb bet 1,800. He made the small blind fold, but last year's finalist Rania Nasreddine check-called from the big blind.
Gottlieb fired a second barrel of 3,500 on the 3♣ turn. Nasreddine check-called again, then led out for 8,800 on the 6♠ river.
Gottlieb eventually called with Q♥Q♠ and caught Nasreddine bluffing with K♦9♦.
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