Rokas Barzdzius moved all in for his last 6,800 from under the gun and Timur Caglan three-bet to 13,000 in the hijack. Petteri Voutilainen moved all in over the top from the big blind and Caglan sighed, but eventually sent his cards into the muck.
Rokas Barzdzius:
Petteri Voutilainen:
The board of gave the Finn a full house and Barzdzius the chance to enter the side event before the end of registration.
The stack of Trong Hieu Nguyen vanished after he got it in with pocket threes against the of Roman Tvrzník. The board of left very little doubt over the outcome of the hand and Nguyen left the table with a "good game guys."
Tvrzník is one of several players that may be the chip leader after Day 1b.
Sylvain Partouche stood up from his chair, sighed and witnessed how his stack was sent over to Michal Riczak. Apparently, Partouche's pocket kings ended up second-best to the of Riczak on a board of and the Frenchman was eliminated.
Right after, Riczak looked up a short stack for around 35,000 and tabled . The player at risk held and Riczak tapped the table with the words "good luck." Everyone on the table could all but smirk when the flop fell , and Riczak locked up the second consecutive elimination with the turn before even improving to a full house with the river.
Players are going on their final break of the day. When they return there will be just two 30-minute levels separating the remaining 24 players from booking their place in Day 2.
Johan Groot defended his big blind against a raise to 7,000 by Paulius Katinas. On the flop, Groot checked and called a bet of 10,000 by Katinas before doing so again for 15,500 on the turn.
Groot then checked the river and Katinas moved forward a stack of T-5,000 chips, which saw the Dutchman quickly call all in for his last 44,000. Katinas knew he was beat and showed for a busted open-ender, while Groot turned over for a flush to double.
Several players are hot on the heels of chip leader Michal Riczak and among those is Baris Ginitas. He just got into a raising war with Lazer Gjergji and clicked it up to 17,000 on the button. Gjergji four-bet to 37,000 and Ginitas moved all in.
"Do you have kings? Ace-king no good?" Gjergji asked and received no reply. Another minute passed and the Czech mucked to forfeit the pot.
With 60,000 chips in the middle, Krzysztof Misiura checked to Marek Blasko who bet 30,000. The board read and Misiura took his time fondling the chips to make the call before calmly placing them over the betting line to indicate a call.
Blasko turned over for a full house, queens full of fours, and took down the pot. With that pot he moved up well over 150,000 with the average hoving just underneath 140,000.
gave the Finn a full house and Barzdzius the chance to enter the side event before the end of registration.
of Roman Tvrzník. The board of 
left very little doubt over the outcome of the hand and Nguyen left the table with a "good game guys."
and Caglan checked to Van Alst who bet 24,000. Caglan raised all in and after some consideration, Van Alst muttered the call.
giving Van Alst a flush draw, but the river was the 
and the Frenchman was eliminated.
, and Riczak locked up the second consecutive elimination with the 
turn before even improving to a full house with the 
river.
flop, Groot checked and called a bet of 10,000 by Katinas before doing so again for 15,500 on the 
for a busted open-ender, while Groot turned over 
for a flush to double.
and Misiura took his time fondling the chips to make the call before calmly placing them over the betting line to indicate a call.
