Table 19 just witnessed a zero equity bluff, three players from the bubble.
On an flop, the player who raised from middle position made a 60,000-chip continuation bet, with the player in the cutoff making the call. The turn brought the , which both players opted to check. The then paired the board on the river, with the player in middle position going for another 60,000. He was quickly min-raised to 120,000 and, with a huge amount of reluctance, announced, "I have to call," and threw an additional 60,000 into what he thought was the abyss.
The player in the cutoff turned over and, after scanning the board for a full house including these cards, the middle position player revealed and was more than releived to be dragging this pot.
The player in the under-the-gun position shoved all in for his remaining 79,000 chips with 39 players left in the tournament. Only 37 of those players will go through to tomorrow. The player in mid-position called. Stefan Vukojevic, on the button, raised to 200,000. The player in mid-position now folded.
Stefan Vukojevic:
Under-the-gun:
The board ran out - Vukojevic's opponent didn't hit anything that could have hurt him and he eliminated his opponent in 39th place.
It was a sequence of back-to-back hands that led to the bubble bursting.
In the first hand, the seen-to-be bubble-boy found himself in a classic flip scenario with versus and failed to improve on the runout, as 204,000 chips were shipped the other way, leaving him with just 12,000 - two thirds of one big blind.
He folded the next hand under the gun, and was therefore forced all-in from the big blind, with against Rafal Gruba's on a queen high board, with Gruba a lock to win the hand on the turn.
All of our 37 remaining players have locked themselves up the €250 min-cash and are now in the process of bagging their chips up before they get themselves a good night's sleep ahead of tomorrow's 230pm restart.
In the meanwhile, the hyper-turbo has come to a close too with 12 players advancing to Day 2 tomorrow.
There is one hyper-turbo left to play in here at the Montesino Casino, which will start at 10 am. A recap of all the Day 1s will follow once that tournament has been played.
Play has concluded for the day at the €500,000 guaranteed partypoker Grand Prix Austria €115 Main Event in Vienna. That leaves just one more Day 1 to play – a hyper-turbo with 10-minute blind levels starting at 10 a.m. local time – before we shuffle the pack and set up for Day 2 at 2:30 p.m.
A total of 414 entrants came to play the 1 p.m. flight at Montesino Card Casino, with a further 369 turning up for the 7 p.m. flight. Registration closed on the 1030pm hyper-turbo with s whopping 119 runners – almost twice the attendance of last night’s equivalent tournament.
A total of 90 players bagged chips from all of today’s flights combined, bringing the total number of players to have survived the opening days up to 261. On top of the pile as Day 1d came to a close was Milan Dunko, who took through a massive 1,598,000, who marginally betters Aleksandar Lugonjic’s 1,550,000 from a Day 1 on Thursday.
Other players near the top of the Day 1d leaderboard included Afshin Fattahi with 1,483,000, Goran Delic with 1,452,000, and Alexandru Parau with 1,198,000.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be back on the floor from 2 p.m. tomorrow to provide a recap of the final opening day, along with full coverage of Day 2.