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.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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Busted |
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.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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Busted |
Morgan Wald raised to 4,400 and was called by Maksym Lavrov from two seats over. On the flop 
, Wald check-called a bet of 8,000 and did so again on the 
turn for 19,000. The 
river completed the board and Wald checked for a third time, letting Lavrov bet 38,500. This time the Swede folded and immediately attacked again the next hand.
Pieter de Korver defended his big blind and then called all in after the 
river for 30,000. The Dutchman had 
for a flush and Wald could not beat that, losing the second hand in a row.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
150,000 | -40,000 |
|
148,000 | 58,000 |
|
95,000 | -8,200 |
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The next big hand for Nikita Malinovskiy saw the Russian get paid off for 30,000 on the river of a queen-high board and Nico Lombaerts had called only to muck when shown 
for a pair of aces. Lombaerts fell below starting stack while Malinovskiy is thriving and becoming the second biggest stack on his table after Morgan Wald.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
190,000 | 71,200 |
|
155,000 | 30,000 |
Level: 10
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
Bert Geens raised to 3,500 and Niko Koop called on the button before Stefan Mattsson squeezed to 9,000 from the big blind. Geens called and then Koop four-bet to 32,000. Mattsson had been very solid until then and decided to jam his big stack to put Koop at risk for 155,000.
Geens folded and the Russian called with 
to see Mattsson only turn over 
. As usual there was some sweat, but the board ran out 
to give Koop an enormous double up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
320,000 | 160,000 |
|
35,000 | -145,000 |
Dieter van Itterbeeck had played his very first Unibet Open and peeked at a stack of around 55,000 chips before Vincent Gabel doubled up through him. The Belgian then hovered on a middle stack without much space to move and eventually shoved the button for 28,000 with pocket deuces.
Patrick Aerts had an easy call out of the big blind after waking up with pocket aces and van Itterbeeck was sent to the rail.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
Previously a short stack, Hans Sybrandi is now right back in the tournament after calling a four-bet shove by Bert Geens with the 
. Geens also had a suited ace with 
but failed to connect with the board.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
110,000 | -15,000 |
|
100,000 | 49,000 |
Both Abdelhadad Tit and Asbjorn Elvevold had started well into Day 1a and busted within a few minutes of each other. While the details of the former are unknown, the latter has a bad beat story to tell.
Nikita Malinovskiy had raised to 3,500 and was called two ways before Elvevold shoved for 22,000 out of the small blind with . Only Malinovskiy called with the 
and got there on a board of 
.
After the hand, only 46 players remained.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
125,000 | 5,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted |
