Marko Simic entered the tournament not long ago and Artur Wasek to his immediate right was no longer seated. According to Simic, Wasek flopped two pair with and called the shove of "Gabrys", who turned over pocket aces for the overpair. A brick on the turn was followed by an ace on the river and Wasek was gone.
An uproar was heard from one of the side tables and Alain Riss gasped a "no no no", even banging with his hands at the wall. Rushing by to the table, the board showed and the stack of Rifat Gegic was counted. According to players at the table, Gegic had jammed preflop with after a raising war with the Frenchman, who quickly called with pocket kings and saw the nightmare ace appear on the river.
Gegic doubled for 647,500 and bumped his stack up to 1.3 million.
One hand later, there was a raise to 12,000 and Riss called. Gegic announced "I am all in" and the initial raiser folded. "Now you can call and get chips back," Gegic said to Riss, who folded and stormed off the table to take a break. While Gegic scored that big double, he is not the chip leader by any means - Viktor Langlitz brought in almost two million and has since bumped that up further.
A total of 170 players qualified for Day 1b and had their stacks waiting, while another 60 players bought in for €2,200 thus far. Among them were also David Urban, Pierre Neuville and Matthias De Meulder. The latter has racked up some big pots early on and moved to 1.4 million.
We joined the action on a flop, in a hand between Fabrice Halleux and partypoker sponsored pro Marcel Luske, with roughly 35,000 in the middle. Luske check-called 22,000 on the flop, with both players checking the turn.
Luske led out for 65,000 on the river, sending Halleux deep into the tank before he came out with a 250,000 raise. Luske called almost immediately, turning over for flopped top set. Halleux showed for a rivered straight, and dragged in the pot to take his stack into seven figures.
Meanwhile, Luske is distinctly shortstacked, although still has around 30 big blinds to play with.
Joining the action on the four-way flop of , the action checked to Vladimir Bednar on the button and he bet 23,000. The small blind and Van Hiep Tran in the big blind were the only callers and the appeared on the turn. Again the action checked to Bednar and the Czech bet 60,000 to claim the pot uncontested.
The same table also features Aleksei Ivanov, who racked up several scores here in the King's Casino over the past few years.
Roman Cieslik faced a raise to 9,000 by a player in early position and three-bet to 26,000. The cutoff called and "Bigsmd" in the small blind then moved all in for more than 340,000. The initial raiser folded and Cieslik did so after some consideration, pointing out in table chat the amount of big blinds the shove was for.
The cutoff asked for a rough count and folded, flashing with the words "normally I should call."
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and it was checked to Pyzara who continued for 25,000. Neuville called and the big blind folded.
and Pyzra tossed out a blue T100,000 chip.
and called the shove of "Gabrys", who turned over pocket aces for the overpair. A brick on the turn was followed by an ace on the river and Wasek was gone.
and the stack of Rifat Gegic was counted. According to players at the table, Gegic had jammed preflop with 
after a raising war with the Frenchman, who quickly called with pocket kings and saw the nightmare ace appear on the river.
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turn.
river, sending Halleux deep into the tank before he came out with a 250,000 raise. Luske called almost immediately, turning over 
for flopped top set. Halleux showed 
for a rivered straight, and dragged in the pot to take his stack into seven figures.
appeared on the turn. Again the action checked to Bednar and the Czech bet 60,000 to claim the pot uncontested.
with the words "normally I should call."