We're just over halfway through the day and we've lost 75 players so far - just over 20% of the field. No-one seems to waiting for big hands and the pots are consistently huge. Yesterday there was around a third of field left after ten levels and we'd expect something similar today - in the region of 100 or so players remaining. So expect the exits to continue to mount up.
Game over for Michael Fischer, he risked his entire stack with against Nukul Insuwan's but the Thai player came out of the fight better when the board came .
Daniel Patzner opened to 800 preflop and was called by the cutoff before Jelka Andelic made it 3,000 on the button. Daniel Hofmann moved all in for 2,175 in the small blind, Patzner and the cutoff both folded.
Andelic:
Hofmann:
The board came and Hofmann was eliminated. Andelic moved up to about 25,000.
There were 337 entries today in the form of 315 unique entries and 22 re-entries. Added to last night's total of 117, there are 454 entries so far with Day 1c still to come.
Dara Vosoughian moved all in for about 15,000 over the top of Bulent Demirtas' 2,700 three-bet - the latter tanked for a minute before making the call.
Vosoughian:
Demirtas:
The board came to make two pair for Vosoughian. Demirtas was left with 10,000 afterwards.
On the river of a board, Rainer Emde led out for 2,000 and Sonke Jahn moved all in for a total of 8,150. Emde tanked for a couple of minutes but then made the call and Jahn confidently displayed his , assuming he'd won. Emde then turned over for a pair that had improved to a gutshot and flush draw and rivered trips but had obviously been fearing a full house.