Game over for Anthony Ghamrawi and Jorgen Jagd. The latter defended his big blind against a min-raise by Pavel Chalupka and then jammed the flop for 20,000 with . Chalupka called with and the turn and river gave the Slovakian a full house.
The same table also features Amir Mozaffarian and the German is still going strong at the top of the leader board.
The pot was only 12,000 chips and the board was reading with the player in seat two checking his option. Martin Ilavsky from one seat over pushed forward a bet of 30,000 and that was enough to push his opponent all in. Ultimately no call happened and Ilavsky grabbed the pot to become a contender for the Day 1b lead.
Dag Palovic has fallen to 125,000 chips in the meanwhile.
Marc Goschel first lost with against a short stack holding and the remaining nine big blinds went into the middle from the button with . The player on the cutoff had limped and called with to score the knockout.
Paul Michaelis is nowhere to be found either and his media card arrived at the desk. Udo Sowitzki failed to improve with against and Maria Lampropoulos moved in for 13,000 with . Ayhan Agdas was sat behind and called with the to reduce the field by another player.
On the three-way flop , Markus Luczak bet 5,600 and Dragoslav Timarac folded from two seats over. Short stack Stefan Raab then shoved for around 16,000 and Luczak quickly called.
Luczak:
Raab:
"I knew you had it, but I didn't want to come back tomorrow again," Raab said when clearly referring to his short stack. It was all over after the turn, making the river a formality.
Michael Huber raised to 2,000 from under the gun and then folded to a three-bet worth 6,200. The table broke shortly after to send the Austrian as well as Maria Lampropoulos to a new table in order to accommodate the shrinking field and balance the tables.
Among the recent bustouts were Florian Baum, Marc Furstenau and Benjamin Phillips.
Joining the action on the river, the player in the big blind bet 8,500 and Alexandru Farcasanu raised it up to 26,000. Wieslan Klimczak called from two seats over and the third player in the hand sighed before quickly folding. Farcasanu showed for a flopped full house and Klimczak tossed his cards in disgust all over the table.
Farcasanu is not the biggest stack on his table though, that honor currently belongs to Martin Ilavsky in the three seat.
King's Regular Magic Man 558 has been eliminated and Martin Mulsow followed out of the door shortly after. Hristo Kostov and table neighbor Marko Turnsek tangled with almost identical short stacks and Kostov could not get there with pocket nines against the of his opponent on a board of , his last two big blinds were gone one hand later.
Antonin Duda has been eliminated and Thomas Zurek also sent one opponent to the rail. The short stack was all in for 12,000 with pocket queens and Zurek's pocket kings held up.
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for 20,000 with 
. Chalupka called with 
and the 
turn and 
river gave the Slovakian a full house.
with the player in seat two checking his option. Martin Ilavsky from one seat over pushed forward a bet of 30,000 and that was enough to push his opponent all in. Ultimately no call happened and Ilavsky grabbed the pot to become a contender for the Day 1b lead.
against a short stack holding 
and the remaining nine big blinds went into the middle from the button with 
. The player on the cutoff had limped and called with 
to score the knockout.
against 
and Maria Lampropoulos moved in for 13,000 with 
. Ayhan Agdas was sat behind and called with the 
turn, making the 
for a flopped full house and Klimczak tossed his cards in disgust all over the table.
of his opponent on a board of 
, his last two big blinds were gone one hand later.
