The last level of tonight has only seen one seat open thus far and that was Rachid Karidi. Besides that, players are trading chips back and forth without any further eliminations thus far.
The second seat open in the last level of tonight was Vincent Gabel. The Belgian lost a flip with against the pocket fours of Boris Kuzmanovic despite a six on the flop. Because the second community card was a four and the runner runner miracle never happened anymore.
Morgan Wald flat-called a raise on the button and Pieter de Korver checked the flop . Wald checked behind and called a delayed continuation bet for half the pot on the turn before de Korver check-called a bet worth 13,000 on the river. Wald flipped over for a flush draw that improved to a straight and de Korver mucked.
Micael Emanuelson raised to 4,500 and Patrick Aerts called from one seat over before Boris Kuzmanovic squeezed to 12,500 out of the small blind. Emanuelson folded but Aerts called to see the flop of . Kuzmanovic continued for 8,500 and Aerts raised to 18,000, triggering the all in by his opponent and a snap-call.
Kuzmanovic:
Aerts:
Both the turn and the river were blanks and crippled the stack of Kuzmanovic before the Croatian busted shortly after.
Wim Neys was one of two players to exit on the feature table in a three-way all in. Emil Hegedus was the second player at risk while David Baltus looked them up with the biggest stack and the best hand.
Neys:
Hegedus:
Baltus:
The board ran out and that sent two players to the rail on the feature table.
The clock has been stopped with 38 players remaining according to the screens and there is little doubt about the current chip leader. Niko Koop probably accumulated double as many chips as the second biggest stack while four more hands will be played.
Tomas Martinsson had moved all in a few times and had one split pot before then shoving the last hand with the . Maksym Lavrov called from one seat over with the whereas the rest of the table folded. The flop gave Martinsson some hope with the flush draw, but both the turn and river blanked to make the Swede the last casualty on Day 1a.
Short stack Imro Sendar moved all in for 28,000 within the last four hands over on the feature table and Claes Ruben Hellberg called with the . Sendar was at risk with and failed to improve on a board of .