button in SafariDucks Sink Lin and Float Rezaei into 1A Top Ten; Early Leaders in 1B
Ren Lin went all-in from the small blind for 130,000 (about 11 big blinds) with Q♦J♦ after Daniel Rezaei opened from the cutoff with a pair of deuces. Rezaei called, his small pair held up, and Lin was felted. That pot put Rezaei over 1.2 million and into eighth place on the leaderboard.
Registration has closed for Flight 1A with only 91 out of 239 entries remaining. Other recent departures include 2026 EPT Barcelona High Roller winner Thomas Eychenne, Luka Sorainen, Matthias Lipp (again), Sebastian Gaehl, Hao Zhu, Grzegorz Kozieja, and Oleg Silin.
Flight 1B has returned from the first break with 65 players remaining out of 74 entrants. Here's their current top ten leaderboard.
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Imad Derwiche | France | 863,000 | 216 |
| 2 | Elena Yasyuchenya | Russia | 652,500 | 163 |
| 3 | Yinan Zhou | China | 605,500 | 151 |
| 4 | Berc Sindiroglu | Turkey | 498,000 | 125 |
| 5 | Agharazi Babayev | Azerbaijan | 476,000 | 119 |
| 6 | Dapeng Wang | China | 472,500 | 118 |
| 7 | Mekan Yusupov | Turkmenistan | 465,500 | 116 |
| 8 | Mikhail Ostapenko | Russia | 437,500 | 109 |
| 9 | Mengdian Peng | China | 420,000 | 105 |
| 10 | Vadzim Godzdanker | Belarus | 406,500 | 102 |