Eduardo Lopez currently has the biggest stack in the Main Event with 400,000 in chips. Here is a look at some of the top stacks.
Eduardo Lopez currently has the biggest stack in the Main Event with 400,000 in chips. Here is a look at some of the top stacks.
Players are back from dinner break. The field has grown to 66 entrants on Day 1b halfway through the late-registration period. There are currently 50 players battling it out with a few coming back late from their break.
Level: 7
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 1,600
Players are now on a 40-minute dinner break.
Avi Butz bet 18,000 into a pot of around 35,000 with the ![]()
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on the board. Marcher appeared to be in pain and was attempting to talk with his opponent who didn't respond at all.
About three minutes later, Marcher folded and turned over the
and the dealer sent the pot over to Butz.
The 40-minute dinner break will begin in about 15 minutes when players and their guests will be treated to a world-class buffet in the hotel.
Aleksi Toloraia bet 3,000 into a pot of around 5,000 with the ![]()
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on the board. Jose Gonzalez Ribot raised to 8,000 and Toloraia called.
Both players checked after the
came on the river. Toloraia turned over ![]()
for a straight. Ribot for a moment appeared to not see the straight and turned over ![]()
. The dealer told him that Toloraia indeed had him beat and began preparing for the next hand.
Abel Quintas opened from under the gun before he called a three-bet from Enrique Garcia De Blas from the big blind to 6,000.
Garcia De Blas bet 7,500 after the ![]()
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came on the flop. Quintas raised to 15,000 and Garcia De Blas quickly three-bet jammed for about 80,000. Quintas just as quickly called with the approximately 70,000 he had in his stack.
Enrique Garcia De Blas: ![]()
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Garcia De Blas was ahead when the chips got into the pot. However, the
came on the turn followed by the
on the river to give Quintas a flush and a big pot.
Garcia De Blas showed his displeasure and immediately huffed away from the table leaving his phone before coming back to the table a couple of hands later.
Meanwhile, at other tables, Stefanos Giannakopoulos, Tom-Aksel Bedell and Michail Tastanis hit the rail. They still have plenty of time to get back into today's Day 1b field or choose one of the other opening flights in hopes of advancing to Day 2 and beyond.
Level: 6
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 1,200
Aleksi Toloraia with ![]()
and Jose Gonzalez Ribot with ![]()
were all-in preflop in what appeared to be a pot of more than 200,000 in chips with Toloraia having his opponent covered.
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ran out on the board and Toloraia's kings held strong.
Ribot wasn't one of the players to initially add-on. He did so after the hand and had 20,000 in chips before the next hand was dealt.