Ian Gascoigne raised to 5,000 from middle position and Benny Glaser defended his big blind. Both players then checked on the 9♥6♠3♣ flop before Glaser fired 6,500 chips on the 4♥ turn.
Gascoigne stuck around with a call, but quickly folded once Glaser put in a massive bet of 41,000 on the 5♦ river.
Pascal Baumgartner had open-raised preflop from the cutoff and called the subsequent three-bet of big blind Guillermo Gordo, leading to a pot of 39,000 chips.
Gordo continued for 9,000 on the A♠3♠K♥ flop, which Baumgartner called. On the 6♠ turn, Gordo slowed down and checked. Baumgartner tossed in a bet of 16,000 and Gordo's cards instantly hit the muck.
Baumgartner won the pot and ended up with more than ten starting stacks.
Juha Helppi opened the action with a raise to 5,000 on the button, after which Conor Harkin piled his final 14,000 chips in the middle from the small blind. Edouardos Stavrakis called in the big blind, and Helppi made the call as well.
The 4♣J♣3♥ flop was checked by both Stavrakis and Helppi, but Stavrakis made a bet of 16,000 on the 7♠ turn. Helppi quickly folded and the other two players showed down.
Conor Harkin: A♦K♣ 
Edouardos Stavrakis: 4♥4♦
Harkin's Big Slick was already drawing dead against the set of Stavrakis, and he said his goodbyes while the Q♠ river rolled off.
On a completed board of 6♠2♠7♦2♣8♦, Adam McKola made a bet of 8,500 out of the small blind, into a pot of 30,000. Orestis Kanakopoulos was his opponent in the cutoff, and he raised to 24,000.
McKola instantly called, after which Kanakopoulos tabled K♣8♣ for top pair. It was no good against the 2♥4♥ of McKola, however, who had turned trips to win the important pot.
Level: 13
Blinds: 1,000/2,500
Ante: 2,500
The final 100 players of Day 1a have been sent on their last 20-minute break of the night.
When they return, they will play two more levels of 45 minutes before play concludes.
April Wiggins and Gabriel Vezina had ended up on a completed board of 2♠7♠A♠J♣9♦, with 45,000 chips in the middle. Wiggins added another 8,000 to that with a bet from the big blind, but Vezina had other ideas in mind and raised to 32,000 on the button.
Wiggins confirmed the amount before making the call, and Vezina quickly mucked his cards. Wiggins did not have to show to rake in the big pot and crossed the 200,000-chip mark in the process.
Colm Chan raised to 4,000 under the gun and David Docherty put in a three-bet to 11,000 from the next seat over.
The action folded back to Chan, who thought for a moment before putting his stack in the middle, covering Docherty's 58,000 chips.
Docherty made a quick fold and preserved his chips and his hopes for another Main Event run.
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