The casino announced earlier that they increased the cap to 205 instead of 200 players. The tournament has just passed the old cap of 200 and now has 201 entries for Day 1b. 163 players are currently remaining in the last level before registration officially closes.
Four players limped in and Tobias Schmidt in the big blind raised to 3,600. Oguz Dilgin three-bet to 7,400 and the other limpers folded, Schmidt called.
After the flop of , Schmidt checked and Dilgin bet 6,500 before Schmidt check-raised all in for 34,225. Another player on the table eventually called the clock on Dilgin and he folded with three seconds left on his minute of consideration.
At the end of the previous level, Bahadir Kilickeser open-shoved for his last 10,025 from middle position and Christian Glissmann called out of the small blind after plenty of consideration.
Bahadir Kilickeser:
Christian Glissmann:
The board of provided no help for the 5th place finisher of the EPT8 Berlin Main Event back in 2012 and he will have to re-enter in the turbo flight 1d to take another shot at the guaranteed prize pool of €500,000.
Daniel Montagnolli called a raise to 1,200, as did Jesper Hansen in the small blind and the trio headed to the flop of . Action checked to Montagnolli and he bet 1,525, Hansen was the only caller and bet the turn for 3,800 with Montagnolli tossing in the chips for the call.
On the river, Hansen bet 4,000 and Montagnolli raised to 13,700. Hansen gave it some thought and called to see Montagnolli roll over for a pair of sixes only. Hansen had that beat with for a straight and won the pot.
Down to around 9,000, Christian Stranz got his chips in with the and Xherat Kumeraj looked him up with the dominating . There was no upset on the board of and that was it for Stranz, who is among around one dozen players that joined the rail thus far.
Fabian Gumz raised and was called by Krunoslav Obravac and Jesper Hansen on the button. Eljano Hysaj three-bet to 2,400 in the big blind and Gumz called, while Obravac folded. Hansen had other plans and moved all in, which Hysaj called for his last 20,350 and Gumz folded.