As the remaining 319 players out of a field of 967 entries headed into a scheduled five-minute break, the late registration remains open for another 12 minutes. As soon as that countdown runs down, the payouts will be released to give all contenders an eye what to aim for, as Day 1 concludes when the money bubble has burst.
"BirdUp4" jammed their short stack in from the cutoff and tabled the 
as "zavor" on the button held the superior 
.
Neither player hit anything on the 
board and that spelled the end for "BirdUp4".
Protecting at the tables is one of PokerStars’ top priorities according to a video released on the world’s biggest online poker site’s YouTube channel.
Sadly, cheating and poker go hand-in-hand like eggs and ham. Cheaters will always look to make a quick buck whenever money is on the table. It’s one of the downsides of human nature.
Thankfully, the PokerStars Game Integrity team is on hand to prevent its players from all forms of cheating, be that collusion between two or more players, the use of banned software, and even tracking down “bots.”
"Lee-dragon88" was one of the early front runners in the tournament but they saw their bid of a cash come up short when they three-bet jammed out of the big blind with a suited ace, which was called by "jenqae" with the superior suited ace.
"Lee-dragon88": 
"jenqae": 
The 
board was a sweat but the flushdraw didn't get there.
Level: 16
Blinds: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 2,000
Only around 330 players remain out of a current field of 952 entries and Georgios "Geokarak" Karakousis is no longer among them as he just clashed with Mike "gorodski" Gorodinsky.
Georgios "Geokarak" Karakousis: 
Mike "gorodski" Gorodinsky: 
The underpair failed to catch any help on the 
board and Gorodinsky continued his rise on the leaderboard.
The chips of Christoph "26071985" Vogelsang went in before the flop for a pot of 420,156 on a table filled with notables as "isscreamo" looked him up out of the big blind.
Christoph "26071985" Vogelsang: 
"isscreamo": 
The 
board gave "isscreamo" the nut straight.
As the field gets thinned down further and will soon only have one third out of 952 entries remaining, plenty of notables saw their hopes of a decent payday vanish into thin air.
The short stack ride of Lex "L. Veldhuis" Veldhuis has eventually ended when he got it in preflop for a pot of 309,012 and was called by "Sindikat1" out of the small blind.
Lex "L. Veldhuis" Veldhuis: 
"Sindikat1": 
The board came 
and Veldhuis had to leave empty-handed.
In the hands that followed, the action remained epic as Alisson "heyalisson" Piekazewicz doubled through "AmeNeYO" when his cracked 
on the 
board for a pot of more than 1 million.
"AmeNeYO" then doubled with against the of "Sindikat1" to get back up to a million as well.
Level: 15
Blinds: 7,000/14,000
Ante: 1,750
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