Midway through Level 2 we have a new Day 1e chip leader in Netherlands' Sonay Kehya with 240,000 in chips.
His biggest hand came against Manish Goenka. The hand went four-way to the flop which came . Kehya bet 8,500 and got a call from Goenka with everyone else getting out of the way.
Kehya check-called a bet of 16,000 from Kehna after the appeared on turn. The completed the board. Goenka bet 25,000 before Kehna shoved his stack. He shared after the hand he held king-jack and put his opponent on a missed draw.
He was likely correct after Goenka folded leaving him with slightly more than 30,000. He was unable to hold onto these chips as well and was the first elimination in the Day 1e field.
The Day 1e field has grown to 102 players. Three more players that were eliminated from the High Roller were noticed in the field including Norway's Borget Sandsgaard, Czech Republic's Jan Mach and Germany's Han Kuo Yong.
Other notable players in the field include Greece's Pavlos Xanthopoulos, who won a 2015 WSOP Europe side event and France's Nicolas Le Floch, who recently won two WPT side events in February 2017 at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal.
Norway's Borge Sandsgaard is among the early eliminations. He made a huge three-bet preflop holding ace-queen and was called by Czech Republic's Jan Bandura who was holding a pair of threes.
The duo wound up getting it all in with Sandsgaard flopping top pair and Bandura flopping a set of threes after both a queen and three appeared on the flop. Sandsgaard was unable to catch his two runners he needed on the flop and turn and at least for now left the tournament area.
We may see Sandsgaard back in action as all players are allowed to re-enter once per day up until Level 10.
Natalia Breviglieri Wins the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Germany Charity Event
Partypoker Ambassador Natalia Breviglieri is on top of the world after she just shipped the partypoker LIVE Millions Charity Event. Partypoker decided to generously double the amount donated to charity to €10,000.
So incredibly happy to have just won €10,000 in the @partypokerlive Charity Event for @LindseyLodge #♦
— Natalia Breviglieri♦ (@N4talB)
Breviglieri shared with PokerNews, she feels more emotional as compared to other poker success and will need to wait a little while before hopping into the Day 1e field. She explained that winning money for charity feels much nicer than winning money for yourself. She also shared she can't wait to get home to donate a fat check of €10,000 to a local charity that is near and dear to her heart, the Lindsey Lodge Hospice.
It didn't appear that Breviglieri would get anywhere near a victory early on the in event. She first chopped a pot after getting it all in on a jack-high flop holding king-jack against fellow partypoker Ambassador Jan-Peter Jachtmann after the board pair and an ace appeared on the river.
Then when play was five-handed, she was down to a little more than three big blinds after she three-bet jammed all-in with pocket queens and was unable to hold against German ex-footballer Stefan Effenberg's king-jack after he called.
After that lady luck was on Breviglieri's side.
"I got a bit lucky after that," Breviglieri shared. "I shoved pocket fives and was called by pocket nines. The board ran four cards to my flush and after that, I didn't look back as I have plenty of short-stack experience."
The first 15-minute break has just begun. The field has grown to 108 entrants, including Norway's Borge Sandsgaard who just used his one re-entry for the delay. If Sandsgaard is eliminated again before the end of the day, he will need to wait until Day 1f or Day 1g before re-entering as the tournament only allows for one re-entry per day.
We caught up with Timothy Weltner on break. We asked him if he had any big hands despite his stack being just slightly about the starting stack.
Weltner shared on his very first two hands of the tournament he had pocket kings and pocket aces. While he won both hands, he was disappointed he was unable to capitalize on the two best hand in poker as he only won a few chips in each hand.
He is still fairing better than some with an almost average stack of 110,000.
France's Nicolas Le Floch is now among the Day 1e chip leaders with a stack of 260,000 chips. Most of his success came on a hand where he eliminated Czech Republic's Petr Susen.
After Susen defended the big blind he check-raised on both the flop and the on the turn. After the completed the board on the river, Susen jammed his remaining stack of 45,000. Le Floch though things over before calling with pocket nines, which was good enough to beat Susen who was holding .
Greece's Greko Gregor, who is using a nickname in the tournament, just won a big pot without seeing a flop. He opened open for 2,000 before an opponent three-bet to 5,500 and Miroslav Forman four-bet raised to 13,200. Greko Gregor then five-bet all-in and all the other players quickly folded in succession to grow his stack up to 140,000.
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