Dmitrii Vitugin jammed from the small blind with for more than the 70,000 Nuri Kural had left in his stack in the big blind. Kural made the call with and won the hand with trips after the ran out on the board.
Aydin Abulmuhsin is in the chip lead with a stack of approximately 1.6 million. Meanwhile, David Verdal and Jose Rivas are the next biggest stacks with 1.3 million and 1.2 million respectively.
Mohammed Razkouallah limped from the cutoff before Miguel Faria Lopes jammed for 105,000 from the button. Mahnaz Eskandari called from the big blind and Razkouallah came along for the ride.
The board was checked down the entire way.
"I think I win," said Lopes as he turned over .
Eskandari turned over before Razkouallah responded while turning over : "You definitely do win."
Meanwhile, Jonathan Miller was eliminated on another table to leave 19 players left in the Day 1a field.
There are 20 players left with 17 guaranteed a mincash of at least €1,200. The final 11 players will then advance to Day 2 with an unannounced pay jump.
Norberto Lopez checked on the river with about 80,000 in the pot and the on the board. Justinas Fiseris jammed for 83,000 and after two minutes got a call from Lopez.
Fiseras turned over for trips and won the hand after Lopez tossed his hand into the muck.
David Verdal opened from under the gun for 17,000. Mohammed Razkouallah called from two seats over before Andrey Golubev called off his short stack of around 15,000. Roman Nuraev completed the action from the big blind and the came on the flop.
Nuraev checked before Verdal fired out a bet of 25,000. Razkouallah and Nuraev got out of the way. Verdal turned over for top pair and a flush draw and Golubev was drawing thin with .
Neither the on the turn nor the on the river were able to save Golubev and he was ousted before the money. Also recently eliminated were Ercan Olgun and Alejandro Gomez.
The field is down to 25 players with 17 guaranteed at least a mincash. Among the recent players eliminated were Jinho Hong, Aleksi Toloraia, Hermida Carlos, and Anil Olgun Ozdemir.